Global Supply Chain Management and Logistics

Supplier Evaluation at EADS

If you were in the position... identify?

If I were John Summers, I would have identified the following problems and weaknesses. Firstly, the aerospace industry that they were serving required high quality products because of the extreme conditions they will face. The products must be made according to the Federal Aviation Administration and customers requirements. EADS have to implement an expensive evaluation system so that the parts could be made accordingly. These stressful conditions forced EADS to buy all the desired parts from one of the suppliers. EADS due to quality concern had to ...