Services
Align Aerospace offers an efficient core distribution network to provide your facility with high-quality products, coordinated deliveries, and supply chain services.
Customized to fit your needs
Align Aerospace understands the challenges of production scheduling and will work with you to customize a solution that fits your needs. By reducing fixed costs and optimizing your supply chain, we can help you stay competitive and profitable in today’s marketplace.
Our key distribution capabilities cover a broad spectrum of contractual options and tailored supply chain solutions including:
Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
Our distribution and supply chain services can help you create an efficient, just-in-time material management program in your production facility. We offer replenishment solutions that lower the total cost of ownership, improve productivity, and scale to meet production demands.
By working with you to optimize your supply chain model, we ensure that you have material when you need it, where you need it, and how you need it. VMI supply chain solutions are fully integrated, shop-floor control systems that integrate into Forward Stocking Locations (FSL) and back-end IT systems.
Benefits of a VMI supply chain solution:
- Simplified material management at the production facility
- Customized invoicing that can map to manufacturing MRP systems
- Optimized on-site inventory management
- Reduced excess or obsolete inventory
- Increased productivity and efficiencies
- Improved sourcing and supplier management
- Improved time to market
- Enhanced production facility’s flexibility
- Scalable and repeatable processes
Long-Term Agreements (LTA)
Customers with long-term fixed-price agreements with Align Aerospace have access to parts that they need at a low, fixed price.
By working with you to optimize your supply chain model, we ensure that you have material when you need it, where you need it, and how you need it. Long-Term Agreements provide forecasted requirements at contracted prices and leverages ability to aggregate demand over multiple customers and long periods to stabilize pricing. Economic order quantities ensure that we are able to provide the best prices to customers.
Benefits of Long-Term Agreements:
- Fixed pricing schedule
- Dedicated inventory per contract requirements
- Demand planning for LTA contract parts ensures healthy inventory pipeline
- Procurement efficiencies from increased depth of buy
Kitting Solutions
Kitting is a proven, effective way to achieve air-tight inventory control and is a critical element of the lean manufacturing process. It enables management of multiple components under a Kit Master Part Number while keeping full traceability of all parts. We can supply you with the components that are needed, in the amounts needed, where and when needed with a variety of kit box or packaging choices.
Align can recreate an existing kit or work with you to determine new kit options based on your actual usage history. Our kits are fully traceable; part numbers, lot numbers, and certifications are linked directly to each kit.
Benefits of Kitting Solutions:
- Space-saver
- Consolidation of parts
- Improved traceability
- Minimal part damage and loss
- Reduced Work-In-Process (WIP) inventory
- Greater flexibility & productivity
Bin Management
Align’s bin management services allow you to focus on your manufacturing, production or repair activities instead of hardware parts inventory management.
Benefits of bin management services:
- Cost efficiencies
- Optimized inventory
- Reduced costs
- Improved productivity
Integrated Solutions
Inventory Management Services
We maintain an efficient network of large centralized stocking facilities. These facilities are used to coordinate our purchasing, receiving, quality, and other operational activities. In addition, we offer our customers the option of having their materials kept at one of these warehouses, a Forward Stocking Location (FSL) or an In-Plant Store.
Consignment Inventory
We offer consignment services that provide you with the flexibility of deferring asset purchases.
We will stock the inventory at your site and retain ownership until the product is consumed. A number of different consignment options are available.
Dedicated/Reserve Inventory
Some customers want the assurance that materials held by their suppliers are reserved only for them. For example, we can maintain reserved inventory in caged areas of our warehouses dedicated to you. These materials can only be released at your instruction.
Forecast Management
We know fasteners and we know how to forecast your needs. Our Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) tool allows us to take your usage data, create accurate forecasts and purchase inventory on a Just-In-Time basis. We take pride in our ability to work with you to accurately forecast your needs.
Third Party Logistics (3PL)
3PL encompasses a range of transportation, warehousing, cross-docking, inventory management, packaging, and freight forwarding services. Align Aerospace provides 3PL services for a wide range of customers, serving as a pass-through warehouse and shipping center for more obscure parts to providing special packaging or kitting services. Flexibility is a hallmark of our 3PL offerings.
Benefits of 3PL:
- Manufacturer can focus on core competency
- Greater flexibility
- Improved operational efficiency
- Reduced costs
Spot Buy Support
We know that from time to time you will need parts that aren’t part of your normal buying patterns. Align Aerospace is able to utilize our relationships with over 2,000 suppliers to source these parts and supply them to you as you need them.
If they end up becoming regular buys, they can easily be added to your program.
Benefits of Spot Buy or Bid-to-Buy Order Fulfillment:
- Provides unplanned, spot requirements at competitive market prices
- Leverages global inventory position
- Effective for supporting adhoc needs that are over-and-above contracted parts
Aftermarket Services
Align Aerospace supports all major OEM platforms including Airbus, Boeing, Embraer and Bombardier.
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Request for Quote
Send us your part numbers and quantities, or email sales@alignaero.com. You may also check stock online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.