30 Oct 2006
The SBAC Annual conference “Supply Chains in the 21st Century” was held at the Millennium Hotel in London on 1 March 2006.
The SBAC Annual conference “Supply Chains in the 21st Century” was held at the Millennium Hotel in London on 1 March 2006.
Key speakers were:
- Chris Geoghegan: BAE Systems Chief Operating Officer& SBAC President
- Stan Porter: Director General Commercial, MOD
- John Ferrie: President Aerospace, Smiths Group
- John Dowdy: Partner, McKinsey & Company
The event was hosted by Russ Armitage, BAE Systems Director of Strategic Supplier Management, and a number of BAE Systems management acted as leaders in the break out sessions.
Following the presentations and the break out sessions, Chris Geoghegan, in summing up, confirmed a number of targets for the industry in working together and minimising overheads.
These included:
- Creating a supplier evaluation system with 80% commonality and a method of accreditation between primes
- Agreeing a common set of customer focused metrics and definitions to measure industry performance
- Ensuring that lean business practices are spread wider and deeper within the companies and across the supply chain
- Using the Supply Chain Relationships in Action (SCRIA) Code of Practice to encourage good and open relationship behaviours
- Ensuring that this Code is implemented at all levels of the supply chain to promote good business behaviours
- Creating more opportunities for peer to peer business discussions with suppliers
- The plan will be confirmed and then announced at Farnborough International Air Show in July 2006.
