Niall Cleary - Sector Head

Oakland Consulting has been providing sustained improvement and value for over 25 years to a broad range of clients in Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Clients include Airbus, Eurocopter, Cassidian, Astrium, MBDA, BAE systems and others for which our team of highly experienced specialists have worked globally, including China, USA and Europe delivering a range of activities that support Business and Operational Excellence. These have included:

• Accelerating Change - Rapid On-Time, On-Quality improvements through transformation, effective relationships and culture

 

• Effective collaboration with partners to promote common understanding and expectations

 

• Optimising supply chain to reduce risks and protect stakeholder delivery commitments

 

• Reducing Costs - addressing root causes, typically by reducing process waste and variation ...helping the ADS sector deliver substantial savings and efficiency gains

 

• Protecting Reputation - identifying and assessing business risks and developing processes to reduce exposure and impact ... particularly in the supply chain during accelerated changes in demand.

In one on-going project we have helped:

• Train in excess of 4,500 employees in various business units to deliver enhanced on-time, on-quality, on-cost delivery in processes ranging from finance, HR, IT, procurement, quality, facilities, marketing and customer services to manufacturing and design
• Coached employees to deliver audited annual benefits in excess of Euro175 million at a rate of >Euro 500K per project
• Improve the claims process yielding audited savings of Euro 1.6 million
• Support the development of a new programme forcast to make Euro 300 million annual contribution by 2012

 

all of which has contributed to the organisation's short and medium term vision.

The current climate remains challenging for the ADS sector with a need to reduce costs, be more responsive, develop closer relationships with customers and partners, to deliver through-life service excellence and to operate in a multitude of territories.

However, Oakland are confident that all this can be successfully overcome and believe that the experience gained from a broad range of sectors from over 25 years of experience is the reason why Oakland has successfully gained a reputation as a trusted advisor

Given our extensive experience there is a broad portfolio of case studies across a range of topics from a broad range of clients that operate in the sector that you may find useful to review as follows:

Quality and Operational Excellence
Supply Chain Understanding
Component Part Variation Reduction
On Time - On Cost Improvement
Energy Saving
Cost of Quality
Improving Customer Satisfaction
Improving On-Time, On-Quality, On-Cost Performance
Quality Improvement and Cost Reduction	Project Harley
Enhancing Transformational Change
Cost of Poor Resource Utilisation (CoPRU)	Coming soon
Service Delivery Excellence	Coming soon
Quality Strategy

Memberships

Oakland Consulting is a member of the NWAA (North West Aerospace Alliance) and FAC (Farnborough Aerospace Consortium)

To contact one of our ADS consultants for immediate help or further information please contact us or telephone: +44 (0)113 234 1944