Aerospace & Defense

The aerospace and defense industry's consolidation to large global companies, and adoption of innovative supply chain initiatives drives the need for supply chain partners to work closer together. Initiatives include:

• Outsourced Manufacturing:
  Manufacturers are partnering with suppliers who now provide complete design and assembly services for sub-assemblies such as vertical fins. This results in the need for increased control over critical processes now being executed by partners.
• Globalization:
  Globalization of the supply network requires that partners across Asia, North America, and Europe work together to design and assemble components leveraging their best-of-breed capabilities. A high degree of business integration is required to manage this global supply chain network.
• Supplier Collaboration:
  In order to manage a more complex and global supply chain to maintain competitiveness, companies require tight integration with partners and automation of processes.

Supply chain process improvements, such as Lean Demand-Driven and Supplier Collaboration, improve overall operational performance and efficiency.

Partnering with Exostar

Exostar is a major E2open customer and channel partner in the Aerospace & Defense Industry segment. Exostar leverages E2open software to power its Supply Chain Platform which supports many of the world’s largest aerospace and defense companies and over 34,000 supplier companies.

Exostar customers including BAE SYSTEMS, The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Rolls Royce and the UK Ministry of Defense conducted 10 million transactions worth $35B across the Exostar Supply Chain Platform in 2006.

E2open and Exostar work closely to serve the complex supply chain requirements of the Aerospace & Defense Industry by combining E2open software and Exostar’s secure, multi-enterprise collaborative platform. Exostar Supply Chain Platform powered by E2open supports processes related to order management, supply/demand synchronization, inventory management and logistics management.

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E2open Solutions

E2open Multi-Enterprise Solutions address the needs of the Aerospace and Defense Industry allowing you to gain flexibility and control over your entire supply chain in the areas of:

• Order Management
• Inventory Management
• Multi-Tier Visibility