Quality Progress, July 1st, 2003
Several years ago, Military Aircraft and Missile Systems Group (A&M), a division of the Boeing Company in St. Louis, made a strategic decision to focus on its main business-aircraft and missile assembly. A&M decided to outsource a significant portion of piece parts and subassemblies used in the assembly of planes and missiles.
Key to the success of this strategy was the availability of cost competitive, quality parts with ontime delivery. Because of its natural ties to the supplier community, the supplier management and procurement (SM&P) department accepted the challenge to partn...
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