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operations & supply chain improvement

Saving You Time, Money, and Wasted Effort

Charles Edwards helps aerospace companies solve complex operational challenges.

Our approach is independent, data-driven, and built around your specific situation — not a prepackaged solution. We bring the analysis, the experience, and the bandwidth to execute so your team doesn't have to carry it alone.

IMPROVEMENT EXPERTISE IN multiple areas

Charles Edwards has worked with all kinds of manufacturing operations - assemblies and piece parts - with all kinds of materials - metal, composites, and plastics.

We know that assembly operations face different challenges from those of manufacturing. Charles Edwards has worked extensively with large and small assembly production to improve throughput, reduce variability, and ultimately improve delivery, save money and lower inventory. 


Composites present a special challenge as their unique operations and they don’t fit well with ERP systems. Charles Edwards has specific expertise and experience with composite operations, both large and small.

From Make-Buy through sourcing strategy to managing suppliers and material operations, Charles Edwards can help you assess, structure, and more effectively execute supply chain activities.

Your systems are critical to supply chain effectiveness. Our team can help you understand the capabilities and work with the limitations of your existing ERP on supply chain effectiveness as well as help you prepare for full ERP implementations.  

Selected Completed Projects

  • Operations Due Diligence Of A Composite Parts Manufacturer - Private Equity Investor: Rapid assessment of a composite parts maker to outline a pre-sale improvement plan to reduce persistent inventory increases 
  • Inventory Reduction Project - Private Equity-Owned Tier 2/3 Machining and Assembly Shop: Reduced Inventory 37% and increased on time delivery from to 95% from 65% over a seven month period.  Business has since sustained these levels. 
  • Parts Outsourcing / Cost Reduction Project - Major Tier 1 Aerostructures Supplier: Achieved 28% reduction in shipset material cost without impacting program deliveries by re-sourcing 20,000 part numbers.
  • Supply Chain Strategy - Equipment Systems OEM: Evaluated the market dynamics of six key spend categories to identify spend reduction and re-sourcing opportunities.
  • Composite Parts Manufacturer Operations Due Diligence - Private Equity Investor: Performed operations due diligence of six facilities in three different locations to identify valuation risks, road blocks to growth, and improvement plans.
  • Acquisition Integration Management - Tier 3 Precision Parts Manufacturer: Managed due diligence and integration teams to identify deal synergies, developed the plans to capture them, and realize the planned benefits.
  • Facility Move Parts Outsourcing - Major Tier 1 Aerostructures Supplier: Outsourced 23,000 part numbers within 540 calendar days in order to ensure supply during a major plant move.


Facing a critical operations or supply chain decision?

Let’s discuss the specific bottlenecks you’re facing and how we can help you reduce risk, increase throughput, and stabilize delivery.

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