Subcontract management

Where customers’ designs call for the assembly of a wide range of 3rd party manufactured components, they can conclude that managing the storage and kitting of parts and the associated logistics is not their core competence and wish to outsource these activities to a 3rd party.

ThyssenKrupp Aerospace has several years experience in delivering such a service which has the following key characteristics:

• Coordination of parts manufacturer deliveries.
• Storage of vendor inventory.
• Kitting of parts.
• Delivery of kits to point of use.

The benefits of this approach include:

• The management of supply of a wide range of dissimilar products through a common process.
• The development of kits to meet the OEM’s needs.
• Just-in-time delivery of kits to the point of use on a consistent basis.
• The management of a large number of transactions which frees the OEM to focus on his core business.
• Reduced costs.