Aerospace

The aerospace industry continues to be gripped by a tumultuous and rapid industry transformation. The aerospace supply chain is transitioning to a global, super-supplier model for the Tier 1 suppliers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). These organizations are shedding manufacturing and subsystem assembly work, relying on middle-tier suppliers to take on increasingly complex design and manufacturing tasks. To address growing pains and manufacturing delays, the industry is taking steps to streamline supply chains and realize efficiency gains to better manage program performance.

As a result, suppliers in the aerospace industry are rethinking their strategic positions.  Suppliers face a crucial strategic decision: try to remain in their current role, pursue a focused system-integrator role, or become parts suppliers of selected segments.  Regardless of the strategic direction, suppliers are investing in the technologies and IT infrastructure that will allow them to operate more efficiently, reduce costs, increase flexibility, and compete globally.

Acumen can help component suppliers and parts manufacturers deploy integrated systems that link functions across your organization, enabling you to reduce time-to-market and improve control of your entire supply chain. Cutting-edge supply chain and financial management features can help you connect customer requirements with product design, work better with business partners, and better track workflow across manufacturing, purchasing, finance, sales, and distribution.

Serve Customers Better

Help your people service customers more effectively, set priorities more easily, and streamline manufacturing, sales, and purchasing processes. People can access and work with information from the desktop more simply, improving accuracy, speeding fulfillment, and reducing costs.

Drive Internal Processes for Maximum Profit

Simplify and accelerate complicated supply chain processes, such as tracking and coordinating resource availability and inventory to reduce customer order lead times. By connecting inventory control with purchasing and sales order processing with demand planning, you can maintain the right stock at the right time.

Streamline the Purchasing Process

Reduce complexity and improve navigation between purchase orders and receiving, and base manufacturing on reliable forecasting from your sales and field organizations.

Focus on What's Important for Your Success

Provide clear, up-to-the-minute visibility into your entire manufacturing organization, including customer demand, factory activity, order status, service information, customer data, financial reporting, supplier information, and more.

Tighten Connections with Customers and Suppliers

Make it easier for customers and business partners to do business with you by implementing customer portals. Provide your people with current, reliable information, and make important business applications always available.

Improve Warehouse Operations

Provide faster, more efficient picking; more effective, dependable management of warehouse locations even if you have several warehouses; and rapid, cost-effective shipping. Provide visibility into component inventory, as well as greater flexibility in creating and making changes to manufacturing orders.

Improve Distribution. Manage Your Returns Process More Flexibly

Improve productivity for employees by creating and handling Return Materials Authorization (RMA) and Return to Vendor (RTV) transactions.