A comparative analysis of supply chain management practices by Boeing and Airbus : long-term strategic implications
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, February 2007.
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| author | Horng, Tzu-Ching |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/385792019-04-10T17:07:14Z A comparative analysis of supply chain management practices by Boeing and Airbus : long-term strategic implications Horng, Tzu-Ching Kirkor Bozdogan. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Civil and Environmental Engineering. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, February 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-131). The goal of this research is to develop an improved understanding of supply chain management strategies and practices being pursued by Boeing and Airbus in the 787 Dreamliner and the A380 Navigator programs, respectively, and to identify their long-term strategic implications for supply chain management in the future. The research takes as its point of departure a review and synthesis of supply chain management principles and practices, with particular emphasis on lean supply chain management concepts. Guided by this review, the research focuses on the common set of suppliers supporting both programs and employs a questionnaire survey, followed by telephone interviews with representatives of selected suppliers. The research also makes extensive use of the open source information on both companies, on both programs and on the common suppliers. (cont.) A major finding is that Boeing's new supply chain model in the 787 program represents a significant break with past practices in the aerospace industry, allowing major partnering suppliers an unprecedented role in terms of design, development, production and after-market support, where they are integrated early in the concept development stage and are incentivized to collaborate with Boeing, as well as among themselves, as risk-sharing partners with deep responsibility for system integration, involving detailed interface control at the system and subsystem levels. Airbus, as well, is found to rely heavily on its major suppliers in connection with the A380 program, but acting as the primary system integrator in the more traditional mode and exercising much greater control of all design interfaces. Also, both Boeing and Airbus have been outsourcing more and more activities to suppliers located in non-traditional regions, such as Eastern Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Finally, aerospace manufacturers, in general, are aggressively adopting information technologies (e.g., EDI, PLM, 3-D Digital Model, RFID) to facilitate greater data sharing and communications with their partners and lower-tier suppliers dispersed in many geographical regions, as part of a broader trend involving more collaborative supplier relationships reaching down to the subtier level. by Tzu-Ching Horng. S.M. 2007-08-29T20:30:44Z 2007-08-29T20:30:44Z 2006 2007 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38579 156345024 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 140 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Civil and Environmental Engineering. Horng, Tzu-Ching A comparative analysis of supply chain management practices by Boeing and Airbus : long-term strategic implications |
| title | A comparative analysis of supply chain management practices by Boeing and Airbus : long-term strategic implications |
| title_full | A comparative analysis of supply chain management practices by Boeing and Airbus : long-term strategic implications |
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| title_short | A comparative analysis of supply chain management practices by Boeing and Airbus : long-term strategic implications |
| title_sort | comparative analysis of supply chain management practices by boeing and airbus long term strategic implications |
| topic | Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38579 |
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