Managing Aerospace Supply Chain Disruptions of Increased Complexity and Single Sourcing

Iman Ziaei, Mohsen Sadegh Amalnick

There are several influential risks in an aerospace supply chain which disruption is one of the most significant types. Many researchers believe that the impact of disruption is more considerable than other risks. There are two main reasons for aerospace supply chain disruption, which are “increased complexity” and “single sourcing”. The article explains aspects of these causes as well as related solutions for each one of them.The main solutions for these two disruptions including: integrating and synchronizing planning and execution, mean and variance of lead time reduction, investing in visibility, building flexibility in supply chain, fulfilling robustness strategy, collaborating and cooperating with supply chain partner.Accordingly, since each one of main supply chain approaches – lean and agile- needs diverse strategies; the final step is about the strategies, which would be reached through benchmarking among them for both lean and agile series of components and raw materials.