THE CUSTOMER PROBLEM
Inventory planning for a maintenance program schedule was difficult, resource intensive and causing delays to a program. Multiple systems for engineering design, engineering project planning and inventory built on 1980s technology were in use offering no or limited connectivity between
THE SEATEC SOLUTION
Consultants with aerospace manufacturing expertise established a cross business program team with suppliers to own the problem
Identified business process opportunities with and without a technology solution and selected the highest value projects
Connected systems by developing interfaces to pull and harmonize data from multiple sources.
Automated data analysis, built exception based inventory alerting, and built inventory forecasts
Managed the change then trained and provided documentation that enabled the customer to independently operate the solution
THE CUSTOMER BENEFIT
A solution that optimized the system and avoided large capital expenditure– Domain expertise and strong alignment with stakeholders, including inventory suppliers enabled process deficiencies and systems to be optimized without a major systems investment
Improved inventory management – reduced the time to produce a project inventory report from 8 hours to 1 minute
Greater data integrity – introduced proven automation techniques to produce reliable, clean data that enabled improved data analysis
