Supply Chain Services
Overview
Supply Chain Services are one segment of Boeing's integrated program of aerospace support services. The objective of Supply Chain Services is to improve aircraft availability and reduce costs according to customer-defined preferences.
Benefit Breakdown
Although supply chain services are designed to improve aircraft availability and reduce costs, these objectives are obtained by providing customers with the following subsidiary benefits:
- Demand forecasting, total asset visibility, maintenance information, and field data
- Informed decision-making to identify the optimal relationship between affordability and aircraft readiness
- Accurate, timely shipment of supplies
Supply Chain Process
To provide supply chain services and obtain the maximum benefit for each customer, Boeing utilizes the following procedures:
- Timely and accurate information sharing between Boeing and the customer to attain the highest levels of service effectiveness
- Online, real-time, integrated information systems that are based on Web-architecture designs and are interfaced with comprehensive databases; these yield reliable demand forecasting, total asset visibility, maintenance information, and field data
- Reliability-based logistics and trigger-based asset management; these practices yield reliability improvements and identification of life-cycle cost-reduction opportunities so that aircraft fleet managers can make informed trade-offs between inventory levels and costing--enabling them to optimize the relationship of aircraft readiness to affordability
- Use of leading commercial warehousing practices, shipping practices, and innovative asset-sharing agreements with commercial airlines and component manufacturers; this ensures that the correct part is shipped to the correct place at the correct time worldwide