GAMECO becomes first Chinese customer to implement the Airbus Managed Inventory (AMI) Service
Nov. 1, 2016
GAMECO (Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co., Ltd.) signs a long-term agreement with SATAIR Group concerning the Airbus Managed Inventory (AMI) service. The Airbus subsidiary SatairGroup’s AMI solution optimizes inventory management, ensuring high-usage and non-repairable parts being automatically replenished by GAMECO, whilegranting parts availability and decreasing inventory stock & surplus levelswhile improvingcompetitiveness.
With the rapidly emerging China aviation industry in recent years, the traditional purchasing pattern shows its disadvantages gradually. Procurement &human capital cost cannot be controlled effectively any longer assuring quality and safety of aircraft operation at the same time.
Paul Lochab, CCO of Satair Group says: “We are pleased that GAMECO has chosen to go with the Airbus Managed Inventory solution as our first customer in China. The solution is tailor-made for the supply chain requirements of GAMECO and the MRO industry. We are confident the AMI service will prove to be just the right tool to support the concerned inventory planning, reducing priority orders and allowGAMECO to streamline administrationfor a large range of frequently moving expendable parts.”
The scope initially is covering Airbus proprietary parts only, but flexible adapting and adding other material categories including supplier parts and standard hardware items.
Norbert Marx, GAMECO General Manager continues:”We are very happy havingsealed this AMI agreement, minimizing order and inventory effort &costs while maximizingparts availability. We expect to gain a competitive advantage right sizing our inventory according our needs, adjusting if required. We are convinced the AMI solution will optimize our end-to-end supply chain set-up dramatically.”
The AMI automated inventory management solution supports MRO customersreducing inventory holding costs. By capturing material consumption intelligence in real-time, triggering automatically replenishment within the set up inventory levels, granting high on-shelf part availability while decreasing overall inventory stock level and reducing cost.
Lochab ends: “AMI is a prime example of how SATAIR Group provides world-class material management and supply-chain solution and services for tier – one customers like GAMECO.”
Taking such substantial and important decision, GAMECO and AIRBUS break with old traditions all together. The signing of this agreement creates a new raw model of material cooperation between an MRO and aircraft manufacturer, leading to an accelerated development of new aircraft generation.
About Satair Group
Satair Group (www.satair.com) is a truly global company and world leader in the commercial aerospace aftermarket with more than 1.000 employees in 10 locations worldwide. Satair Group is a 100% standalone company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Airbus S.A.S. and the merged organisation between the Airbus Material & Logistics Management division and Satair. Headquartered in Copenhagen and Hamburg, Satair Group provides services to customers and suppliers through sales, warehousing and service centres in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and China.
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