Research and select a company that has recently experienced

Research and select a company that has recently experienced a failure, success or challenge in its supply chain. You may utilize an example at your current company; a company that you have worked for; or a company that you simply have an interest in.

Start with an overview of the company (e.g. industry, product(s)/service(s) produced, company size, locations, etc.)

Next include a summary of the issue (e.g. What is the issue? What may have caused it? What were the current circumstances in the industry? etc.)

Finally, place yourself in the senior management perspective assuming that you have the authority to implement or change as needed and summarize your assessment of

how effectively the supply chain issue was addressed, or what you may have done differently.

GENERAL OUTLINE

Company Summary

Issue Summary

Personal Assessment

Solution

Leonardo is a player in the Defence, Aerospace, and, Security space. Market challenges hit Leonardo\'s profits in 2017. The organization\'s helicopter\'s division has a 50 percent share in the medium, and, intermediate category. This category is expected to drive the industry\'s growth over the next 5 years. The profits have seen a decrease from 0.48 to 0.43 Billion Euros in 2012 to 2017.

Global civil helicopter market has seen a decline of 45 percent. Production and planning are suffering from a lack of sales discipline. The organization offered flexibility on configurations. It had reduced lead times, and, was accepting late configurations. This had an adverse effect on production planning, and, processes. The manufacturing process changed from a push model to a pull model but production planning, and, the demand for Leonardo\'s helicopters was not aligned for the organization to gain. The supply chain issues led to order slippage in the defence market.

The organization has launched a new planning & control model, but, the organization now suffers from a global supply glut. The organization\'s value chain is well integrated, but, it faced issues with its supply chain when the demand increased, and, is now facing a supply glut.

Products: Intermediate and medium category aircraft - AW169, AW189, and, AW139

The revenues for the organization from the helicopters, defence & electronics, and, aeronautics division are 30, 45, and, 25 percent respectively.

Italy\'s largest defence group plans on cost control, and, investment of $624 million in core technology areas.