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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

The Search

■ 2007

■ 40 member committee

■ Exhaustive search for software

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

We selected

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

Centralized Access to Project Information

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.

Weekly Updates

Line Schedule Report

Next 4 Weeks

Completed in the Last 6

Weeks

Clarification Needed

Different from this

Week

Negative Variance

Positive Variance

Data Submittals

Timesheets

Timesheets

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