Business Dashboards for Aerospace

Innovative monitoring, evaluation of manufacturing and business efficiency for Aerospace


Aerospace Visual Performance Tool Kit (VPTK) - is a user-friendly and cost-effective business dashboard collaboration solution. Users identify trends at a glance and drill down into data sets to facilitate timely, well-informed decision-making.  Quick to implement, Aerospace VPTK provides role-based permission, security framework and live connectivity to most data sources with optional e-mail alerting keeps users informed on the go.

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How Aerospace VPTK works - By drawing information from databases, data warehouse, Excel spreadsheets, Crystal reports, XML, and other data sources. We can pull live lean aerospace interactive metrics from diverse applications such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP), Manufacturing Execution, Supply Chain, Distribution Logistics, Warehouse Management and Order Management systems to provide an aggregated easy to understand secure graphical view of your business. Example below…

See live Aerospace VPTK Dashboard Previews for - Financial Metrics, AR & AP, Financial Project Management, Manufacturing, Order Fulfilment, Supply Chain and Logistics, Warehousing and Distribution.

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Some benefits of Aerospace VPTK

  • Rapid Problem detection
  • Respond to KPI’s & SLA’s changes fast
  • Reduce manual and admin work
  • Improve organisational alignment
  • Identify problems & manage exceptions
  • Better visibility into remote operations
  • Increase operational efficiency

Finance - Gives access to key financial and operational metrics. For example, senior management and financial managers monitor real-time results against plans and budgets to make adjustments more quickly. APTK also significantly reduces the administrative burden of manual processes involved with spreadsheets.  If you are a financial executive, iDashboards delivers real-time insight into the financial performance of your organisation.

Financial Metrics

  • Net income and gross profit

  • Asset Utilisation

  • Cash Management

  • Assets, Liabilities and Equity

Financial Metrics Business Dashboard

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If you are responsible for organisational accounting, Aerospace VPTK allows real-time monitoring of outstanding accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP).

If you are a project manager, Aerospace VPTK allows you to access your project details from any location through a powerful interface. You can communicate project status instantly to reduce time and costs.

Financial Project Management

  • Actual vs. budget performance
  • Task and project completion statuses
  • Investment forecasting

Financial Project Management Business Dashboard

  Live Dashboard Preview

Manufacturing - Leading manufacturers have converted their data assets into effective business intelligence. For example, a leading manufacturer delivers real-time dashboards of supply chain metrics for inventory planning and project budgeting.  If you are a production facility, Aerospace VPTK can help you achieve continuous business process improvements by managing by exception.

Production

  • Daily production volume measured against targets
  • Unutilised capacity
  • Downtime and exception events
  • Scrap levels and rework costs

Production Business Dashboard

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Order Fulfilment - With iDashboards, you can streamline your order fulfilment processes allowing sales representatives to convert estimates into orders. 

  • Incoming orders, shipped orders and backlog
  • Real-time Real time shipping statuses
  • Delivery times and customer satisfaction

Order Fulfilment Business Dashboard

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Supply Chain and Logistics - helps optimise visibility and planning of your outbound shipments. The result is maximised throughput for fewer disruptions and fires to put out.

  • Shipment statuses from RFID data
  • Throughput rate
  • Fill rate
  • Inventory turnover

Supply Chain and Logistics Business Dashboard

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Warehousing and Distribution - helps optimise visibility and planning of your outbound shipments. The result is maximized throughput for fewer disruptions and fires to put out. iDashboards provides focus and operational clarity to high volume enterprise supply chain environments.

  • Customer order statuses
  • Suppliers service levels
  • Warehousing costs
  • Order turnaround time

Warehousing and Distribution Business Dashboard

  Live Dashboard Preview

Measuring Lean Aerospace Initiative Metrics - The UK Lean Aerospace Initiative is supporting the development of comprehensive performance measurement systems within the UK Aerospace Industry. Outlined below are examples of measures which you can use to complement the key set of metrics, where appropriate to your organisation.

Operations
Production cycle times
Overall equipment effectiveness
Total lead time
Labour productivity
Set-up times
Distance travelled

Quality
Scrap and rework
Product reliability
Cost of quality
No. of defects per unit
Supplier quality levels

People
Staff turnover
Absenteeism
Time lost due to accidents
% of workforce cross-trained
No. of certified skills per person

Financial
Sales per employee
Return on capital employed
Direct material as a % of sales
Direct labour as a % of sales

Support services
Order processing
Response times
Decision cycle times
Invoice/payroll processing times
% on-time maintenance service

Engineering and design
Compliance to customer specification
No. of engineering changes post-design freeze
% on-time drawing release
% of total design time used for redesign
Adherence to project schedule

Innovative Aerospace supply chains, collaboration, partnerships and e-business

Aerospace collaboration portals, those customisable, internet web browser based applications that provide "one stop" access to each user's most relevant data and tools really can deliver a solid return on investment in very short order.  They allow you to unlock business potential and enhance productivity by providing role tailored access to information and processes from a single internet web based portal.  Aerospace collaboration portals have built in functionality to help you deliver applications, information, key performance indicators (KPI’s), and processes to employees, customers, and partners across your organisation.

Why Aerospace collaboration portals make good business sense - Information really is the lifeblood of your business, and anything you can do to help your employees, customers, and suppliers make better decisions faster is bound to be good for the bottom line. Aerospace collaboration portals enable companies to deliver business information and processes to employees, customers, suppliers, and other business partners through a single source internet web browser portal. This makes it easy for everyone who interacts with your business systems to locate the information they need quickly and to complete common tasks with a minimum of extra effort.

Innovative Aerospace supply chains, collaboration, partnerships and e-business

5 ways Aerospace collaboration portals can help your business run more smoothly and profitably through better collaboration.

1 - Unlock the potential of all your employees - Accelerate productivity across your business by providing employees with immediate access to business applications and to updated, accurate information so they can make better decisions faster.

2 - Take the hassle (and expense) out of common tasks - Timesheets, expense reports, requisitions, and other tasks can be delivered through the user's internet web browser, reducing the time it takes to manage these processes and eliminating related paperwork and data re-entry. And, by opening the flow of useful business Information to your employees, you'll reduce the endless stream of requests for custom reports and the countless calls for simple business facts. Free your IT, accounting, and support resources to drive your business forward.

3 - Give executives at-a-glance access to key business metrics - Enable executives and business decision makers to assess the current health of your business and respond quickly when conditions change with KPI’s and SLA’s.

Multiple views and alert ranges: Using graphs, tables, and green / yellow / red conditional alerts, companies can create KPI’s that draw attention to the most important aspects of each information view. Decision makers can then drill down quickly to discover underlying causes of changing conditions.

Easy to define: Once you've built the underlying queries, it's a simple process to define and deploy the KPI’s most important to your business success, making it easy for decision makers to identify hot spots and act quickly to drive your business forward.

Role tailored Access: Individual KPI’s can be created for each executive, depending on their areas of responsibility. Role tailored access enables you to align the right information with each individual. Easy Updating: KPI’s can be refreshed as often as needed, so decision makers will always be working with current, accurate information.

4 - Share business information with customers and suppliers - Work more effectively with customers, suppliers, and other business partners by granting secure access to business information such as order status, inventory levels, and payment data. Provide access to information stored in other systems and deliver it via the Web to the right people at the right time so they can make better informed decisions to keep your business moving forward and your customers happy.

5 - Give your organisation a framework for collaboration - You can extend powerful information sharing and collaboration tools that foster teamwork and improves performance.  Add sites for projects and meetings: Create pages with all the resources team members need including calendars, participant lists, announcements, document libraries, and other Web parts to record activities, share and edit documents, track meeting notes, and provide links to other relevant sites.

Connect to external data sources: Expand the reach of business information by allowing appropriate people secure access to information, but other sources of business information within your business portal site.

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