Abstract
Compared to many other manufacturing sectors, aerospace industry is characterized by some specific features that have to be taken into account prior to definition and implementation of a group-wide top level sourcing strategy:
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Extremely long product and programme life cycles: more than 30 years of production and in-service phases
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Outstanding technical complexity, e.g. between 2 and 4 million parts to be assembled into one aircraft
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Maximum requirements regarding safety and reliability of our products
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Globalised industrial structure with a highly specialized supply base being in an ongoing consolidation process
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Strong and very long dependencies between cooperating companies in a cyclical economic environment frequently lead to single source relationships exposed to high challenges in terms of cost and risk in case of change of supplier
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Mundt, HE. (2003). Long-Term Cooperation in the European Aerospace Industry. In: Sachsenmeier, P., Schottenloher, M. (eds) Challenges Between Competition and Collaboration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05195-5_7
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