Aviation supply chain management
How parts are made, certified, stocked, shipped, repaired and protected from unapproved sources, under EASA and FAA rules, with today's shortages and digital trends
What you will be able to do
- ✓ Map the production and aftermarket chains, the players in each, and why aviation supply is different.
- ✓ Classify parts, read an EASA Form 1 or FAA Form 8130-3, and run a sound receiving inspection with quarantine.
- ✓ Set stock levels and service levels, and handle an aircraft-on-ground request, including dangerous goods shipping.
- ✓ Manage the repair loop and compare loan, exchange, pooling and flight-hour support on whole-life cost.
- ✓ Approve and monitor suppliers, write quality clauses, and stop and report suspected unapproved parts.
- ✓ Manage lead-time, single-source and obsolescence risk with clean data, digital traceability and responsible reuse.
Course content
Session 1 · How the aviation supply chain is built
1.1
- From raw material to the aircraft · free preview
- The aftermarket players
- Why aviation is different
- Worked example: what an hour on the ground is worth
Session 2 · Parts, paperwork and traceability
1.2
- Kinds of part, and how the rules sort them
- The release certificate
- Back to birth, shelf life and receiving
- Worked example: receiving a used pump on a dual release
Session 3 · Inventory and aircraft on ground
1.3
- What to stock, and where
- Minimum, maximum and service levels
- Aircraft on ground
- Worked example: setting the minimum and maximum
Session 4 · Rotables, repairs and pooling
1.4
- The repair loop
- Loan, exchange and pooling
- Flight-hour support and total cost
- Worked example: loan or exchange?
Session 5 · Suppliers and quality
1.5
- Approving and watching suppliers
- Quality clauses on the purchase order
- Suspected unapproved parts
- From the investigation file: the fin attachments on Partnair LN-PAA
Session 6 · Risk, resilience and data
1.6
- Lead times, single sources and obsolescence
- Forecasting and data
- Repair, reuse and the whole loop
- Worked example: from a forecast to a spares level
Who this course is for
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