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And Rolls wants their suppliers to be doing JIT delivery of all their parts--no one in the supply chain wants to be stuck holding the bag on inventory so Rolls
by a2tech 8y ago
And Rolls wants their suppliers to be doing JIT delivery of all their parts--no one in the supply chain wants to be stuck holding the bag on inventory so Rolls expects to whistle at Pratt-Whitney for parts, and Pratt expects to be able to whistle at their suppliers (and down and down the supply chain) and still be able to get parts within an incredibly short window. Oh and they don't want to pay for anything they order until 6 months after receiving delivery. Its an incredibly tough squeeze on the supply chain.
You can tell some of my customers are in aircraft engine manufacturing.
- kpil 8y agoThe problem with JIT is the same as the problem everywhere else: When the wrong type of bean counters look at a cost too nearsightedly, they typically address the "static" costs and miss the hidden costs that are much harder to both understand and measure - typically "dynamic" costs that are both under-reported and hard to measure, and also to understand since there are a lot of moving parts. The whole point of JIT is to take control of the dynamic effects so it's a bit ironic.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoJIT works when those making the decisions are experienced engineers with financial knowledge, not bean counters without domain experience (IMHO).