Aerospace & Defence Consulting
From the commercial ramp-up to the defence turning point, we turn record demand into deliverable capacity across supply chains, operations and cost.
DEMAND IS RECORD OPERATIONS DECIDE
Aerospace and defence are in a twin ramp-up. Commercial backlogs stretch beyond a decade, while the security turning point pushes defence budgets to levels not seen in generations. The constraint is no longer demand, it is the ability to scale supply chains, industrialise production and hold cost while ramping. Waiting for the sub-tier to catch up is not a plan.
Strategic paths:
Stefan Aichbauer
Managing Director
Winning the order is the easy part in aerospace and defence. Building rate is where programmes are won or lost, on the shop floor and in the sub-tier.
THE RAMP-UP IN FOUR PRESSURES
Each one alone is manageable. Together, they decide who can deliver the A&D super-cycle.
Defence turning point
- Budgets surge toward NATO’s new target
- Manufacture-style production must industrialise
- Speed and sovereignty now decide
Commercial ramp-up
- Backlogs stretch beyond a decade
- Build rates must climb steeply
- Deliver on rate, not just on order
Sub-tier fragility
- Tier 3 capacity lags the ramp
- Castings, forgings and titanium stay tight
- Resilience beats pure efficiency
Talent & cash
- Skilled labour is the top constraint
- Working capital balloons in the ramp
- Digital and AI lift productive time
DELIVERING MEASURABLE RESULTS
HOW WE IMPROVE YOUR PERFORMANCE
Our services turn record demand into deliverable capacity across supply chains, operations, procurement, cost and the organisation.
Supply Chain Resilience & Ramp-up
The sub-tier, not demand, limits how fast you can build.
- Bottleneck and sub-tier transparency
- Rate-readiness and capacity steering
- Multi-sourcing for castings, forgings and titanium
Procurement & Supplier Management
Cost, risk and supply are decided in the supply base.
- Category strategy across direct and indirect
- Supplier risk, development and dual sourcing
- Spend reduced by 5 to 15%
Operations & Manufacturing Excellence
In A&D, most of the time a part is on the floor it is standing still.
- Lean, flow and cycle-time redesign
- Smart factory and automation
- Performance lifted by up to 20% without new capex
Design-to-Cost & Working Capital
Ramp-ups burn cash and lock value in inventory.
- Cost Value Engineering and design-to-cost
- Inventory and working-capital release
- 10 to 25% product cost taken out
Programme & Industrialisation
Winning the order is not the same as building it at rate.
- Programme steering and time-to-market
- Industrialisation of defence production
- Footprint, localisation and sovereignty
Digital, Data & AI
Most digital and AI initiatives create cost but never scale.
- AI in planning, quality and manufacturing
- Predictive MRO and aftermarket
- Double-digit productivity from data-driven ops
REAL WORK REAL OUTCOMES
Ramp-up is won on the shop floor and in the supply base, not on slides.
TRACKING TRENDS IN AEROSPACE & DEFENCE
Our Aerospace and Defence Pulse Checks track the forces reshaping the sector every quarter.
- Where the ramp-up hits its limits
- How the supply base is holding up
- Which levers move build rate and cost
OUR LATEST INSIGHTS ON AEROSPACE & DEFENCE
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