Aerospace and Defense Supply Chain Management

The world of aerospace and defense is complex, demanding and precise. It’s a world of high-volume products, multiple suppliers and critical interdependencies.

And it typically involves multi-site operations - across warehouses, countries and continents. In this complex supply chain, stock-outs can cause major disruption with delays, lost production and mounting costs.

WaerLinx® revolutionizes all that, giving you the visibility, flexibility and control you need to manage complex operations. It was developed to meet the exacting standards of the aerospace industry.

And it delivers tangible results:

• Minimise your inventory. Just-in-time (JIT) inventory lets you hold the minimum inventory until final assembly, moving it only when called for by real demand. You’ll see a huge reduction in stock-outs and shortages.
• Maintain global visibility. WaerLinx gives you a 24x7 view of all inventory in real time. You can instantly share information with your customers, distributors, logistics providers and suppliers - without months of integration.
• Simplify complex operations. When you’re serving multiple customers from a single facility, WaerLinx lets you track, trace and manage each customer independently. It easily handles separate processes for different customers or customer types, as well as special zones (e.g. controlled access or temperature). And it effortlessly manages AOG and MRO operations.
• Control your costs. WaerLinx is implemented as Software as a Service (Saas) – which means quick and easy deployment, a lower total cost of ownership and a rapid ROI.
• Get everything working together. Using a middleware module, WaerLinx can quickly and seamlessly be integrated with your back-end systems. You’ll eliminate repetitive data entry and streamline your data flow, saving time, effort and resources.
• Find it fast. Our unique ‘container’ concept means that you can trace any product at any time. And you can get full details of a product’s history for record keeping and investigation.
• Meet the highest standards. WaerLinx has CAA and FAA acceptance for aerospace supply chain functionality.
• Handle large volumes with ease. WaerLinx allows the management of very large numbers of SKUs at very high volumes that are typical in aerospace.
• Do it your way. WaerWMS effortlessly manages variants, letting you assign different names to the same product for total flexibility. The system also gives you the ability to manage substitute part numbers.