Aerospace and Defense Digital Thread
Aerospace supply chain
Take an integrated, model-based approach to aerospace and defense supply chain management. Create visibility across the full value chain to improve collaboration, make informed decisions, minimize risk, and drive resiliency and reliability across your supply chain.
Why focus on aerospace supply chain management?
Aerospace and defense programs can include millions of parts sourced from thousands of suppliers. Without access to accurate data when needed, manufacturers can't make informed sourcing decisions. An aerospace supply chain solution that offers access to current, accurate configuration data enables teams to quickly adjust to changing supply chain dynamics to make intelligent sourcing decisions faster.
Optimize the management of your aerospace supply chain
Gain valuable insights for predictability and resiliency in your aerospace supply chain. Implement solutions that enable secure data exchange up and down the supply chain to consider supplier needs earlier, enable access to market intelligence at the right time and improve reliability.
Reduced through-life cost
Enterprise-wide knowledge management creates consistency and predictability. (BAE Systems)
Reduced time to market
Get to market faster while improving product quality. (Duqueine Group)
Hours saved per year
Foster efficiency and visibility to reduce time to market and costs. (Supplyframe)
Digitally transform your aerospace supply chain
Revolutionize your aerospace supplier relationships by enabling a model-based approach to supply chain management for improved program performance and profitability. Click through the headings below to explore solutions to common aerospace supply chain challenges:
Create visibility across the entire aerospace value chain early with secure access to all data related to design, requirements and supplies/materials needed to build a product in the context of a comprehensive digital twin. This enables companies to consider supplier needs at the earliest stage of product development to influence request for information (RFI) and request for proposals (RFP) evaluations and responses. Earlier and better collaboration across the value chain improves decision-making and mitigates risk.
A single source of truth drives better decisions and reduces risk. It links requirements to source selection, enabling the exchange of accurate data to the supply chain and using a flexible, open ecosystem to connect the data. Having access to accurate, connected and in-context data allows stakeholders to quickly adjust to changing dynamics in the supply chain and make better decisions faster.
Improve quality, create predictability and increase resiliency by assessing requirements, cost and availability early in the process. Manufacturers can understand the supply chain as it exists for each product to make "just right" decisions around design, parts and materials, including make-versus-buy decisions.
Benefit from a well-managed aerospace value chain
Improve operations and workflow
Toolmaker Parpas Group more efficiencly manages suppliers and accelerates product design and manufacture. (Parpas Group)
Increase productivity and efficiency
Duqueine Group gets to market faster with increased collaboration and knowledge-sharing. (Duqueine Group)
Manage knowledge across the entire enterprise
BAE Systems creates a single trusted source of truth for product and process knowledge. (BAE Systems)
Duqueine Group
Siemens Digital Industries Software tools support growth for composites design and manufacturing company
Company:Duqueine Group (Teamcenter and Tecnomatix)
Industry:Aerospace & defense
Location:Massieux, France
Siemens Software:Teamcenter, Tecnomatix
With the digital manufacturing tools, we can manage different versions and different variants. We supply the same component with different variants to different sites. With this solution, we know the exact product variant for each customer.
Explore our resource library
In today's ever-changing and competitive market, visibility is key when it comes to your aerospace supply chain. Explore our resource library to learn more about digitally transforming your supply chain to gain insights at the right time and in context to make informed part and material decisions, improving predictability and resiliency.
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Solutions to optimize your aerospace supply chain
Aerospace supply chain management
Enterprise BOM management
Aerospace program management
Cloud SaaS PLM for aerospace and defense
Aerospace requirements and verification management
Logistics management
Frequently asked questions
In the A&D industry, the supply chain focuses on the efficient flow of materials from suppliers to production and delivery. The supply chain also prioritizes logistics and cost reduction. The value chain is broader, focusing on how value is created and delivered at every stage of the process. It encompasses the entire lifecycle of a product, from concept and design through production, marketing, delivery and after-sales service to maximize customer value across the entire ecosystem. Our solutions help align both chains, enhancing real-time collaboration and strategic impact.
One trend in aerospace supply chain management is the push for more connected, accurate and in-context data to drive decision-making. Manufacturers are seeking to accomplish this by establishing an authoritative source of truth via an enterprise bill-of-materials (BOM) management solution.
An enterprise BOM approach consolidates information from engineering, manufacturing and service domains. The primary advantage of this approach is automated reconciliation and synchronization across domain views. Enterprise change is timely and efficient throughout while also meeting the needs of the full product lifecycle. It also empowers teams to better organize documents, automate key processes and visualize their products in a single environment.
Aerospace companies must comply with increasingly stringent environmental regulations related to emissions. Companies are shifting toward using sustainable materials, such as lightweight composites, and recycled metals, which will reduce environmental impact. These changes impact supplier choices and encourage companies to collaborate with suppliers who provide eco-friendly alternatives. A digital enterprise holds the key to a sustainable business strategy.
An optimized value chain connects the digital twin across concept, design and build stages under one authoritative source of truth. An enterprise BOM management solution establishes a digital thread backbone for the organization, allowing your teams to gain better control over requirements, efficiently manage data across various BOMs and precisely track different configurations to help eliminate silos, ensure data coherence and accelerate time-to-market.
Intelligent part selection and sourcing risk mitigation in Siemens aerospace supply chain management solutions help aerospace manufacturers select parts and alternatives based on supply chain capabilities. Teamcenter's integrated BOM and supply chain management capabilities give users insights on suppliers and parts to make informed decisions that reduce risk and ensure delivery and performance success.
You need intelligent insights at the right time to make informed part and material decisions. This requires:
- Early visibility and access to design, requirements – including those related to sustainability goals, supply, materials data in the context of the comprehensive digital twin to accelerate product design decisions
- Access to the authoritative source of truth and connected data on a flexible, open ecosystem to enable collaboration for all stakeholders
- View of the supply chain as it exists to make “just right” decisions about design, parts, materials, and make-vs-buy to proactively mitigate risk
Learn more
Watch
On-demand webinar | A proactive approach to aerospace supply chain disruptions
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Podcast | Market intelligence for aerospace supply chain management