Aircraft Composite Materials – Planning optimisation

Aerospace Manufacturer Specializing in Lightweight Composite Materials

Production updates for clients needed improvement, and reporting had to be automated. Additional project planning support was required to enhance the company’s project management maturity.

Our mandate helped improve planning, coordination, information flow, and trust between the supplier and its clients.

Work Completed by Proxima

• Tracking production parts and conducting daily calls with the client to provide updates on production timelines for critical parts.

• Managing internal communications between engineering and production teams.

• Developing tracking tools for orders, parts, production, and shipments based on data from the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, Hutchinson.

• Developing an ERP system and several Excel macro tools, along with user guides, to plan production, assist with floor-level tracking, and analyze resource requirements.

• Developing and updating engineering projects in Oracle Primavera P6.

• Providing support for resource allocation and leveling.

• Conducting workshops with project managers to define schedules in terms of duration, dates, and resources.

• Preparing project prioritization scenarios.

• Creating process maps for planning workflows.

• Providing internal training on project planning.