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B/E Aerospace Case Study
Prepared by: Christopher Stimpson
Manager, Program Controls & Primavera Systems
B/E Aerospace | Seating Products Group
Scheduling and Resource Management in an Entrepreneurial and Diverse Global Company
Session ID#: 200030
Leading manufacturer of aircraft cabin interior products for commercial, business jet and military aircraft
Six Product Lines using Primavera
products. Two more to start this year.
The Culture
■ Highly entrepreneurial
■ Business units free to choose how they will differentiate themselves from their competitors
■ Business units with own Profit and Loss focus
The Challenge
■ No tightly controlled governance for program execution
■ Most business units use MS Project or spreadsheets to manage schedules and resources
■ Low overhead allowance for program controls
The Net Effect
■ Many schedules and resource plans created once and never updated
■ Leadership was unable to have standardized insight to their business unit
■ Usually surprises come at end of program, rather than anticipated or identified
Evaluation criteria
Requirements:
1. Centralized
2. Visibility
3. Functionality
4. Cost of Implementation
Options:
1. MS Project
2. Teamcenter by Siemens PLM
3. Primavera EPPM
The Benefits
■ Chaos and Distrust of Data is nearly eliminated
■ Each business unit CAN have their unique data structure within P6
■ Cadence and rhythm has improved – expectations have been set
■ Imperfect execution is expected, but disagreements and surprises are fewer in number
Tangible success
■ $19,000 USD a week in labor
reduced to $2,000 ($850k
annually)
■ 170 labor hours of meeting time
spent collecting status eliminated
■ The remaining 20 labor hours is no
longer a status collection meeting
■ We plan where to impact the future
of our existing projects
Additional wins in the business
1. Oracle Business Intelligence has opened many opportunities for reporting and business support
2. Using Web Services allows for custom applications to address unique business processes not addressed by commercial applications while integrating with P6 schedules
3. Now standardized reporting is possible through BI Publisher using project codes and activity codes
Project Codes
■ BE codes are used across all
projects and can be used for
global reports
■ ALCI and FSI codes are business
unit specific
■ FSI codes include discipline
owners for various roles
▪ Used in web services to
integrate with regulatory
requirements processes
contained in external system
▪ Also helps maintain Integrated
Program Team roster
Activity Codes
■ Each business unit prefixes their
codes with their acronym.
■ SPG codes all activities to various
codes to drive reports in BI
Publisher
▪ Department
▪ Deliverable Type
▪ Milestone
▪ Owner
▪ Etc.
Line Schedule Report
Next 4 Weeks
Completed in the Last 6
Weeks
Clarification Needed
Different from this
Week
Negative Variance
Positive Variance
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