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Supply-risk strategy for aviation parts and materials

Mapping supply risk, inventory as an investment, supplier scorecards and audits, aircraft-on-ground management, contracts, fraud controls and export screening, business continuity and leading the supply team. Part 3 of the Parts and supply chain series.

By Aerospace Garage Desk · Advanced · 45 minutes · 24 narrated pages

What you will be able to do

  • ✓ Build a supply risk register scored by likelihood and impact, and find hidden single sources several tiers down, including raw materials, castings and forgings.
  • ✓ Set service levels by criticality, add the lead-time variability term to safety stock, and decide by marginal analysis how many rotable spares to own.
  • ✓ Manage suppliers with precisely defined scorecards, risk-based audits and change notification, using the findings of NTSB report AAR-96/06 on Atlantic Southeast Flight 529.
  • ✓ Run aircraft-on-ground events as a system, treat MEL rectification intervals as supply deadlines, and control cannibalisation.
  • ✓ Review support and pooling agreements, build fraud controls into purchasing, and apply export screening and record keeping in general terms.
  • ✓ Plan business continuity and a costed resilience roadmap, and lead a supply team through rhythm, measures, decision rights and reporting culture.

Course content

Session 1 · Mapping supply risk

1.1

  1. The risk you inherit · free preview
  2. Building the supply risk register
  3. Upstream: materials, castings and forgings
  4. Worked example: finding the hidden single source
Session 2 · Inventory strategy as an investment

1.2

  1. Stock as a strategic choice
  2. Who holds the stock: own, pool, consignment or flight-hour support
  3. Service levels, safety stock and unreliable lead times
  4. Worked example: the business case for one more spare
Session 3 · Supplier performance and audits

1.3

  1. Scorecards that drive the right behaviour
  2. Audits and accreditation: trust, but verify
  3. Below the surface: sub-tier control and quality escapes
  4. From the investigation file: a propeller blade, a cork and a repair procedure
Session 4 · Managing aircraft on ground

1.4

  1. Aircraft on ground as a system, not a scramble
  2. The MEL and the parts plan
  3. Cannibalisation and the cost of quick fixes
  4. Worked example: a brake at Iquitos
Session 5 · Contracts, fraud controls and trade compliance

1.5

  1. Contracts and pooling agreements that hold up under pressure
  2. Fraud and counterfeit controls as a management system
  3. Export controls and screening
  4. Worked example: an audit of the purchasing process
Session 6 · Continuity, resilience and leading the supply team

1.6

  1. When the supply chain stops
  2. Buying resilience
  3. Leading the supply team
  4. Worked example: a twelve-month resilience roadmap

Who this course is for

Upskill courses are for professional development and are not approved by any aviation authority. Learner Terms

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