TY - GEN
T1 - Process improvement of global supply chain of commercial aircraft operations
AU - Elhadary, Safinaz
AU - Ashour, Omar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Air transportation demand is predicted to double by 2037. As a result, the demand for new commercial aircraft has reached historic records reaching 10k aircrafts in the next 10 years. Top-tier suppliers of aircraft engine parts are distributed over various countries in Asia and the Middle East. These suppliers ship their parts to be assembled in the USA. When a part is critical to the manufacturer, it is flagged and placed on a priority list to alert the supplier. High priority part needs to be shipped on the next flight out (NFO). If an NFO shipment doesn’t arrive to the USA within 3 days, production lines may shut down, which results in unfulfilled demands. This can cause the aircraft engine provider to pay millions of dollars in compensations. It was found that 60% of the NFO shipments have a transit time of 4 days or more for the provider understudy. The purpose of this research paper is to investigate the supply chain in order to decrease the transit time of NFO shipments using process improvement principles. After further investigation, it was discovered that about 35% of the current average transit time was spent on waiting at the shipping and receiving country’s airports.
AB - Air transportation demand is predicted to double by 2037. As a result, the demand for new commercial aircraft has reached historic records reaching 10k aircrafts in the next 10 years. Top-tier suppliers of aircraft engine parts are distributed over various countries in Asia and the Middle East. These suppliers ship their parts to be assembled in the USA. When a part is critical to the manufacturer, it is flagged and placed on a priority list to alert the supplier. High priority part needs to be shipped on the next flight out (NFO). If an NFO shipment doesn’t arrive to the USA within 3 days, production lines may shut down, which results in unfulfilled demands. This can cause the aircraft engine provider to pay millions of dollars in compensations. It was found that 60% of the NFO shipments have a transit time of 4 days or more for the provider understudy. The purpose of this research paper is to investigate the supply chain in order to decrease the transit time of NFO shipments using process improvement principles. After further investigation, it was discovered that about 35% of the current average transit time was spent on waiting at the shipping and receiving country’s airports.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85105672178
T3 - Proceedings of the 2020 IISE Annual Conference
SP - 1449
EP - 1454
BT - Proceedings of the 2020 IISE Annual Conference
A2 - Cromarty, L.
A2 - Shirwaiker, R.
A2 - Wang, P.
PB - Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, IISE
T2 - 2020 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Annual Conference and Expo, IISE 2020
Y2 - 1 November 2020 through 3 November 2020
ER -