Difficult Supply Chain Management For Aircraft Commissioning

According to the plan, in 2011, the large aircraft project will complete the signing of all supplier contracts and achieve the first start.

Is this speed appropriate or not?

Zhou Jisheng, general manager and chief designer of Guangdong Changsheng Aircraft Design Co., Ltd., said that for large aircraft projects, the progress can be verified, one is the first flight, the other is the delivery, and the other progress nodes are difficult to verify. Two.

Just now in October 2011, it is still more than three years away from the first flight, and more than five years from delivery.

The key now is how to deal with the contradiction between speed and quality, and not lose quality for speed.

Li Xuerong, a senior researcher at China investment advisor, said that the goal is very difficult to achieve. However, as a major scientific and technological project determined by the outline of the national medium and long term science and technology development plan (2006-2020 years), the large domestic aircraft project will certainly give the whole nation the strength. Even if it is faced with difficulties, it will certainly get full support from all sides.

But Gao Yuanyang, a professor at the school of economics and management at Beihang University, told the Morning Post reporter that the C919 large aircraft should be able to fly to the sky, but the success of the large aircraft project depends mainly on whether it can succeed in business.

He believes that if we want to achieve business success, we need market recognition, high safety performance and moderate price. Two, we must do well in cost control and sell without losing money.

To achieve this goal, Gao believes that what China commercial flying needs to do now is to explore and manage the world.

Gao Yuanyang Boeing company as an example, its production chain layout to more than 70 countries around the world, forming a very long multinational supply chain.

As for Airbus, it has more than 2100 in the world.

Wu Xunyu, vice president of Eaton Corp Asia Pacific, told the Morning Post reporter that "perfect management is the foundation of success for such large national projects as large aircraft".

There are many related suppliers of large aircraft projects. How to manage the huge supply chain is very important. It is also an important issue that Chinese commercial aviation needs to solve.

Wu Xunyu said that at present, Eaton Corp and China Shang Fei set up the first joint venture for large aircraft projects, and the company has started operation.

In the future, large aircraft projects must implement global sourcing. Supply chain management can no longer be limited to procurement, cost control, contract signing, and so on. Instead, it is necessary to integrate supply chain into business strategy formulation.

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"Especially in the current situation, raw materials fluctuate greatly. How to cooperate with suppliers to reduce market risks is a new topic."

Wu Xunyu said.