Aerospace & Defense

Supply Chain Planning for the Aerospace & Defense industry involves the consideration of numerous challenges, including:

• Increasing use of risk-sharing partner networks
• Managing cost overruns in programs
• Managing higher risk and demand volatility
• Better management of the distributed supply chain
• Understanding the multi-year supply chain for program lifecycle management
• Combining scalability with responsiveness

Many Supply Chain Guru® features have been designed to specifically support the challenges facing the Aerospace & Defense industry. For instance, Multi-Period Optimization is used in program analysis to understand lifecycle supply chain costs for a program. Analysts use Enterprise Simulation to predict service level and cost implications of adding variability to supplier and transportation lead times.

Network Optimization has been used for multi-tier supplier analyses that incorporate upstream and downstream partners to understand mutually beneficial supply chain manufacturing and distribution strategies. Inventory Optimization helps design the responsive supply chain, to understand both pull (make to order) and push (make to stock) impacts on overall program costs.