Aerospace And Defense Processes

Index

Develop Vision and Strategy

Define the business concept and long-term vision

Assess the external environment

• Identify competitors
• Analyze and evaluate competition
• Identify economic trends
• Identify political and regulatory issues
• Assess new technology innovations
• Analyze demographics
• Identify social and cultural changes
• Identify ecological concerns
• Identify intellectual property concerns
• Evaluate IP acquisition options

Survey market and determine customer needs and wants

• Conduct qualitative/quantitative research and assessments
• Capture customer needs and wants
• Assess customer needs and wants
• Model customer, fleets, and aircraft demand

Assess the internal environment

• Analyze organizational characteristics
• Analyze internal operations
• Create baselines for current processes
• Analyze systems and technology
• Analyze financial health
• Identify core competencies

Establish strategic vision

• Define the strategic vision
• Align stakeholders around strategic vision
• Communicate strategic vision to stakeholders

Conduct organization restructuring opportunities

• Identify restructuring opportunities
• Perform due-diligence
• Analyze deal options
• Evaluate acquisition options
• Evaluate merger options
• Evaluate de-merger options
• Evaluate divesture options

Develop business strategy

Develop overall mission statement

• Define current business
• Formulate mission
• Communicate mission

Define and evaluate strategic options to achieve the objectives

• Define strategic options
• Select partnerships and relationships to support the extended enterprise
• Assess and analyze impact of each option
• Identify implications for key operating model business elements that require change
• Identify implications for key technology aspects
• Develop B2B strategy
• Develop service as a product strategy
• Develop B2C strategy
• Develop partner/alliance strategy
• Develop merger/demerger/acquisition/exit strategy
• Develop innovation strategy
• Develop sustainability strategy
• Develop global support strategy
• Develop shared services strategy
• Develop Lean/continuous improvement strategy
• Develop outsourcing strategy
• Develop innovation strategy and framework

Select long-term business strategy

Coordinate and align functional and process strategies

Create organizational design

• Evaluate breadth and depth of organizational structure
• Perform job-specific roles mapping and value-added analyses
• Develop role activity diagrams to assess hand-off activity
• Perform organization redesign workshops
• Design the relationships between organizational units
• Develop role analysis and activity diagrams for key processes
• Assess organizational implication of feasible alternatives
• Migrate to new organization

Develop and set organizational goals

• Identify organizational goals
• Establish baseline metrics
• Monitor performance against goals

Formulate business unit strategies

• Analyze business unit strategies
• Identify core competency for each business unit
• Refine business unit strategies in support of company strategy

Develop customer experience strategy

• Assess customer experience
• Identify and review customer touchpoints
• Assess customer experience across touchpoints
• Perform root cause analysis of problematic customer experiences
• Design customer experience
• Define and manage personas
• Create customer journey maps
• Define single view of the customer for the organization
• Define a vision for the customer experience
• Validate with customers
• Align experience with brand values and business strategies
• Develop content strategy
• Design customer experience support structure
• Identify required capabilities
• Identify impact on functional processes
• Develop customer experience roadmap to develop and implement defined capabilities

Communicate strategies internally and externally

Execute and measure strategic initiatives

Develop strategic initiatives

• Identify strategic priorities
• Develop strategic initiatives based on business/customer value
• Review with stakeholders

Evaluate strategic initiatives

• Determine business value for each strategic priority
• Determine the customer value for each strategic priority

Select strategic initiatives

• Prioritize strategic initiatives
• Communicate strategic initiatives to business units and stakeholders

Establish high-level measures

• Identify business value drivers
• Establish baselines for business value drivers
• Monitor performance against baselines

Execute strategic initiatives

Develop and maintain business models

Develop business models

• Assemble business model information
• Secure appropriate approvals
• Identify integration points with existing models
• Adopt the business model

Maintain business models

• Establish business model maintenance parameters
• Accept business model feedback parameters
• Prioritize and manage incoming feedback
• Update existing models

Establish business model governance

Develop and Manage Products and Services

Govern and manage product/service development program

Manage product and service portfolio

• Evaluate performance of existing products/services against market opportunities
• Confirm alignment of product/service concepts with business strategy
• Prioritize and select new product/service concepts
• Plan and develop cost and quality targets
• Specify development timing targets
• Plan for product/service offering modifications

Manage product and service life cycle

• Develop plan for new product/service development and introduction/launch
• Introduce new products/services
• Retire outdated products/services
• Identify and refine performance indicators
• Conduct post launch review
• Carry out post launch analytics to test the acceptability in the market
• Review market performance
• Review effectiveness of supply chain and distribution network
• Apply data and analytics to review supply chain methodologies
• Review quality and performance of the product/service
• Conduct financial review
• Conduct new product development process assessment

Manage patents, copyrights, and regulatory requirements

• Conduct mandatory and elective reviews
• Review infringement of patents and copyrights
• Determine patent and copyright needs
• Define product technical documentation management requirements
• Manage regulatory requirements
• Train employees on appropriate regulatory requirements
• Maintain records for regulatory agencies
• Manage regulatory submission life cycle

Manage product and service master data

• Manage materials master lists
• Manage bills of material
• Manage routings
• Manage specifications
• Manage drawings
• Manage product/material classification
• Develop and maintain quality/inspection documents
• Maintain process specification data
• Manage traceability data
• Review and approve data access requests

Generate and define new product/service ideas

Perform discovery research

• Identify new technologies
• Develop new technologies
• Assess feasibility of integrating new leading technologies into product/service concepts

Generate new product/service concepts

• Gather new product/service ideas and requirements
• Analyze new product/service ideas and requirements
• Evaluate new product/service inputs and requirements
• Formulate new product/service concepts
• Identify potential improvements to existing products and services

Define product/service development requirements

• Define product/service requirements
• Define basic functional requirements
• Derive interoperability requirements for products and services
• Derive safety requirements for products and services
• Derive security requirements for products and services
• Derive regulatory compliance requirements
• Derive requirements from industry standards
• Develop user experience requirements
• Derive ‘services-as-a-product’ offering
• Define post launch support model
• Identify product/service bundling opportunities

Design, build, and test product/service

Design and prototype aircraft

• Plan prototype product development
• Plan prototype product resource requirements
• Assign resources to product/service project
• Identify requirements for product/service design/development partners
• Prepare high-level business case and technical assessment
• Develop product/service design specifications
• Develop user experience design specifications
• Provide warranty-related recommendations
• Document design specifications
• Conduct mandatory and elective external reviews
• Confirm internal prototype design / production capabilities
• Determine prototype procurement requirements
• Determine prototype manufacturing/tooling requirements
• Determine prototype quality/inspection requirements
• Determine prototype service/maintenance requirements
• Finalize prototype process design
• Prepare preliminary prototype product cost model
• Design products/services prototypes
• Design for manufacturing
• Design for product servicing
• Design for re-manufacturing
• Review product troubleshooting methodology
• Design and manage product data, design, and bill of materials
• Design for product upgrades
• Build prototypes/proof of concepts
• Develop and test prototype production and/or service delivery process
• Eliminate quality and reliability problems
• Conduct in-house product/service testing and evaluate feasibility
• Identify design/development performance indicators
• Establish service and warranty parameters
• Collaborate on design with suppliers and external partners
• Conduct, monitor, and manage engineering efforts
• Obtain aircraft type certification

Manage configuration

• Manage engineering change notices (ECNs)
• Manage effectiveness of ECN
• Maintain product/process data
• Manage transfers of prototype product data
• Reconcile configuration perspectives

Test market for new or revised products and services

• Prepare detailed market study
• Conduct customer tests and interviews
• Finalize product/service characteristics and business cases
• Finalize technical requirements

Prepare for production or service delivery

Develop and implement manufacturing/services

• Determine process requirements and specifications
• Plan process development
• Determine procurement requirements
• Determine manufacturing/tooling requirements
• Determine quality/inspection requirements
• Determine service/maintenance requirements
• Finalize process design
• Refine cost model with process cost data
• Plan for product launch
• Gain approval for product launch
• Conduct and monitor product launch

Plan product resource requirements

• Coordinate capital asset plan impact
• Coordinate facilities plan impact
• Coordinate strategic sourcing impact
• Coordinate integrated capacity plan impact
• Coordinate manufacturing schedule impact
• Coordinate human resources plan impact
• Coordinate impact on sales forecast
• Coordinate impact on financial plan
• Confirm readiness status of facilities

Prepare for production and marketplace introduction

• Design and obtain necessary capabilities/materials and equipment
• Identify requirements for changes to manufacturing/delivery processes
• Introduce new product and/or service commercially
• Determine plan for new product development and introduction
• Develop product/service launch plans (e.g. timelines, retail communication strategies)
• Identify licensing and co-branding opportunities
• Plan preliminary media buys (print, television, radio)
• Begin initial creative/advertising development
• Develop sales communication plan
• Design preliminary sales collateral, point-of-sale (POS) and promotion prototypes
• Disseminate new item and price information
• Coordinate introduction of products and sunset obsolete products with retailers/distributors
• Manage questions and issues associated with product introduction

Manage transfers of product data

• Review and approve requests for data transfer
• Collect data from internal sources
• Initiate transfer/request for transfer
• Confirm receipt/transmission of data

Support and implement changes to product manufacturing and service delivery process

Request engineering/process change

Install and validate production/service delivery process

• Monitor initial production runs

Manage engineering change orders

Identify product/service design and configuration changes

Capture feedback to refine existing products and services process

Identify manufacturing/service delivery process performance indicators

Validate launch procedures

Market and Sell Products and Services

Understand markets, customers, and capabilities

Perform customer and market intelligence analysis

• Conduct customer and market research
• Identify market segments
• Analyze market and industry trends
• Analyze competing organizations, competitive/substitute products/services
• Evaluate existing products/services
• Assess internal and external business environment

Evaluate and prioritize market opportunities

• Quantify market opportunities
• Determine target segments
• Identify under-served and saturated market segments
• Prioritize opportunities consistent with capabilities and overall business strategy
• Validate opportunities
• Test with customers/consumers
• Confirm internal capabilities

Develop marketing strategy

Define offering and customer value proposition

• Define offering and positioning
• Develop value proposition including brand positioning for target segments
• Validate value proposition with target segments
• Develop new branding
• Identify and assess issues, trends in marketplace
• Review commercial industry and government needs
• Conduct marketing studies
• Develop enterprise sales forecasts

Define pricing strategy

• Conduct pricing analysis
• Establish guidelines for applying pricing and discounting of products/services
• Establish pricing targets
• Approve pricing strategies/policies and targets

Define and manage channel strategy

• Determine channels to be supported
• Establish channel objectives
• Determine channel role and fit with target segments
• Select channels for target segments
• Identify required channel capabilities
• Evaluate channel attributes and potential partners
• Orchestrate seamless customer experience across supported channels
• Define omni-channel strategy
• Define omni-channel requirements
• Develop omni-channel policies and procedures
• Develop and manage execution roadmap

Analyze and manage channel performance

• Establish channel-specific metrics and targets
• Monitor and report performance
• Monitor and report events influencing factors
• Analyze performance
• Develop plan for improvements

Develop marketing communication strategy

• Develop customer communication calendar
• Define public relations (PR) strategy
• Define direct marketing strategy
• Define internal marketing communication strategy
• Identify new media for marketing communication
• Define new media communication strategy
• Define point of sale (POS) communication strategy
• Define communication guidelines and mechanisms
• Assess brand/product marketing plan performance
• Develop and execute advertising

Design and manage customer loyalty program

• Define customer loyalty program
• Acquire members to customer loyalty program
• Build engagement and relationship with members
• Monitor customer loyalty program benefits to the enterprise and the customer
• Optimize loyalty program value to both the enterprise and the customer

Develop and manage marketing plans

Establish goals, objectives, and metrics for products/services by channel/segment

Establish marketing budgets

• Confirm marketing alignment to business strategy
• Determine costs of marketing
• Create marketing budget
• Determine projected ROI for marketing investment

Develop and manage pricing

• Understand resource requirements for each product/service and delivery channel/method
• Determine corporate incentives
• Determine pricing based on volume/unit forecast
• Execute pricing plan
• Evaluate pricing performance
• Refine pricing as needed
• Implement promotional pricing programs
• Implement other retail pricing programs
• Communicate and implement price changes
• Achieve regulatory approval for pricing

Develop and manage promotional activities

• Define promotional concepts and objectives
• Develop marketing messages
• Define target audience
• Plan and test promotional activities
• Execute promotional activities
• Evaluate promotional performance metrics
• Refine promotional performance metrics
• Incorporate learning into future/planned consumer promotions

Track customer management measures

• Determine customer lifetime value
• Analyze customer revenue trend
• Analyze customer attrition and retention rates
• Analyze customer metrics
• Revise customer strategies, objectives, and plans based on metrics

Analyze and respond to customer insight

• Monitor and respond to social media activity
• Analyze customer website activity
• Analyze customer purchase patterns
• Develop business rules to provide personalized offers
• Monitor effectiveness of personalized offers and adjust offers accordingly

Focus and plan tactical marketing

• Develop short term marketing forecast
• Estimate demand by program, contract and customer
• Forecast sales by program, contract and customer
• Identify customer requirements
• Identify sales opportunities
• Influence customer

Manage product marketing content

• Manage product images
• Manage product copy

Develop sales strategy

Develop sales forecast

• Gather current and historic order information
• Analyze sales trends and patterns
• Generate sales forecast
• Analyze historical and planned promotions and events

Develop sales partner/alliance relationships

• Identify alliance opportunities
• Design alliance programs and methods for selecting and managing relationships
• Select alliances
• Develop customer trade strategy and customer objectives/targets
• Define trade programs and funding options
• Conduct planning activities for major trade customers
• Develop partner and alliance management strategies
• Establish partner and alliance management goals
• Establish partner and alliance agreements
• Develop promotional and category management calendars (trade marketing calendars)
• Create strategic and tactical sales plans by customer
• Communicate planning information to customer teams

Establish overall sales budgets

• Calculate product market share
• Calculate product revenue
• Determine variable costs
• Determine overhead and fixed costs
• Calculate net profit
• Create budget

Establish sales goals and measures

Establish customer management measures

Develop and manage sales plans

Manage leads/opportunities

• Identify potential customers
• Identify/receive leads/opportunities
• Validate and qualify leads/opportunities
• Match opportunities to business strategy
• Develop opportunity win plans
• Manage opportunity pipeline
• Manage customer sales calls
• Perform sales calls
• Perform pre-sales activities
• Manage customer meetings/workshops
• Close the sale
• Record outcome of sales process

Manage customers and accounts

• Select key customers/accounts
• Develop sales/key account plan
• Manage sales/key account plan
• Manage customer relationships
• Manage customer master data
• Collect and merge internal and third-party customer information
• De-duplicate customer data
• Compare program actual vs. estimate
• Develop marketing plan
• Track sales performance

Develop and manage sales proposals, bids, and quotes

• Receive Request For Proposal (RFP)/Request For Quote (RFQ)
• Refine customer requirements
• Review RFP/RFQ request
• Perform competitive analysis
• Validate with strategy/business plans
• Understand customer business and requirements
• Develop solution and delivery approach
• Identify staffing requirements
• Develop pricing and scheduling estimates
• Conduct profitability analysis
• Manage internal reviews
• Manage internal approvals
• Submit/present bid/proposal/quote to customer
• Revise bid/proposal/quote
• Manage notification outcome

Manage sales orders

• Accept and validate sales orders
• Collect and maintain account information
• Administer key account details
• Retrieve full customer details
• Modify involved party details
• Record address details
• Record contact details
• Record key customer communication profile details
• Review involved party information
• Terminate involved party information
• Determine availability
• Determine fulfillment process
• Enter orders into system
• Identify/perform cross-sell/up-sell activity
• Process back orders and updates
• Handle sales order inquiries including post-order fulfillment transactions

Manage sales partners and alliances

• Provide sales and product/service training to sales partners/alliances
• Provide certification enablement training
• Manage certifications and skills
• Provide support to partners/alliances
• Provide marketing materials to sales partners/alliances
• Evaluate partner/alliance results
• Manage sales partner/alliance master data
• Manage vendor recovery

Manage sales force

• Determine sales resource allocation

Conduct program development

• Segment feasible opportunities
• Evaluate opportunities likelihood of developing into Request For Proposal (RFP)/Request For Quote (RFQ)
• Evaluate fit with corporate goals and business strategy
• Identify external funding constraints
• Identify internal and external non-funding constraints
• Identify internal funding constraints
• Develop program structure

Develop business relationships

• Identify strategic partnering opportunities
• Define roles and responsibilities of partnerships
• Validate partnership plan with strategic marketing objectives
• Support strategic business partnerships
• Communicate partnership objectives

Perform integrated business planning

Plan demand

• Review existing pipeline for existing and/or backlog demand
• Review existing pipeline
• Review government trends and check for updates in policies
• Project sales pipeline by product/market
• Develop annual sales plan by product/market
• Consolidate sales plan by segment/business unit/corporation

Plan operations

• Transfer sales plan to operations planning
• Perform capacity planning
• Perform logistics planning
• Perform inventory planning
• Perform maintenance planning
• Perform sourcing planning
• Perform tooling planning

Plan financials

• Identify cost centers/profit centers/activities/rates
• Create master data
• Calculate direct costs
• Calculate indirect costs
• Project revenues from sales plan
• Prepare projected income statement by legal entity
• Prepare projected income statement by business unit/managers entity
• Prepare projected balance sheet by legal entity
• Prepare projected balance sheet by business unit/managers entity
• Prepare projected cash flow by business unit managers entity
• Prepare projected cash flow by legal entity
• Prepare consolidated income statement
• Prepare consolidated balance sheet
• Prepare consolidated cash flow

Manage contracts and programs

Determine contract and program requirements

• Identify contract type
• Record contract data
• Evaluate risks and assumptions

Plan and schedule program

• Determine procurement
• Refine order of magnitude estimate
• Identify and schedule production
• Reevaluate risk and assumptions
• Identify and schedule qualified suppliers
• Complete detailed production schedule
• Refine work breakdown structure
• Develop network task
• Include program in budget
• Validate funding against corporate plan
• Obtain approval for funding

Execute program

• Execute tasks
• Record program milestones
• Collect direct costs
• Collect indirect costs
• Collect revenues

Control and manage contracts and program performance

• Prepare subcontractor reports
• Support financial reporting
• Report Central Security Service (CSS)/SCS compliance
• Report earned value management system - EVMS
• Resolve EVMS issues
• Report to management
• Maintain and conduct program status meetings
• Perform quality reviews
• Perform financial/contract audit
• Report classified projects
• Identify project changes
• Identify options to resolve issues
• Revise program plan to incorporate options
• Transfer and borrow payback between contracts/programs
• Submit for management review and approval
• Submit for customer review
• Receive approval, revise program as required

Perform program close out

• Complete program commitments
• Close commitments
• Review procurement documents to close
• Apply final allocation/overheads
• Release funds
• Close program to all postings except rate adjustments
• Return government property documents
• Revaluate return on investment (ROI) or earned value analysis (EVA) reports
• Develop follow up action plan to obtain program enhancements
• Post final rate adjustments and close

Analyze sales results

• Compare actual sales to forecast
• Revise marketing strategy

Generate quotes

• Receive requests for quotes / identify requirement to generate a quote
• Produce quotes
• Submit quotes to customers
• Adjust quotes
• Obtain approval to proceed with quotes
• Convert quotes to sales orders

Deliver Physical Products

Plan for and align supply chain resources

Develop production and materials strategies

• Define manufacturing goals
• Define labor and materials policies
• Define outsourcing policies
• Define capital expense policies
• Define capacities
• Define production network and supply constraints
• Define production process
• Define standard operating procedures
• Define production workplace layout and infrastructure

Manage demand for products

• Perform forward parts requirements forecasting
• Establish demand for PMA parts
• Develop baseline demand forecasts
• Collaborate demand with customers
• Develop demand consensus forecast
• Determine available to promise
• Monitor activity against demand forecast and revise forecast
• Evaluate and revise demand forecasting approach
• Measure demand forecast accuracy

Create materials plan

• Create unconstrained plan
• Collaborate with supplier and contract manufacturers
• Identify critical materials and supplier capacity
• Monitor material specifications
• Generate constrained plan
• Define production balance and control
• Manage interchangeability and supersession

Create and manage master production schedule

• Model production network to enable simulation and optimization
• Create master production schedule
• Maintain master production schedule

Plan distribution requirements

• Maintain master data
• Determine finished goods inventory requirements at destination
• Determine product storage facility requirements
• Calculate requirements at destination
• Calculate consolidation at source
• Manage collaborative replenishment planning
• Manage requirements for partners
• Calculate and optimize destination dispatch plan
• Manage dispatch plan attainment
• Calculate and optimize destination load plans
• Manage partner load plan
• Manage cost of supply
• Manage capacity utilization

Establish distribution planning constraints

• Establish distribution center layout constraints
• Establish inventory management constraints
• Establish transportation management constraints
• Establish storage management constraints

Review distribution planning policies

• Review distribution network
• Establish sourcing relationships
• Establish dynamic deployment policies

Develop quality standards and procedures

• Establish quality targets
• Develop standard testing procedures
• Communicate quality specifications

Procure materials and services

Develop sourcing strategies

• Develop procurement plan
• Clarify purchasing requirements
• Develop inventory strategy
• Match needs to supply capabilities
• Analyze organization’s spend profile
• Seek opportunities to improve efficiency and value
• Collaborate with suppliers to identify sourcing opportunities

Define and manage procurement strategies

• Define material management strategy
• Develop material receipt strategy
• Develop supplier payment strategy
• Ensure alignment of procurement strategy with enterprise wide business strategy
• Conduct spend analysis and determine customer requirements

Select suppliers and develop/maintain contracts

• Select suppliers
• Evaluate suppliers
• Certify and validate suppliers
• Negotiate and establish contracts
• Manage contracts

Perform strategic sourcing

• Maintain material sourcing categories
• Conduct supplier evaluation
• Select suppliers and negotiate agreements
• Develop sourcing implementation plans
• Maintain supplier information
• Maintain supplier catalogs and price lists
• Maintain supplier contracts
• Define outside supplier /partner relationships

Order materials and services

• Process/Review requisitions
• Approve requisitions
• Solicit/Track vendor quotes
• Create/Distribute purchase orders
• Expedite orders and satisfy inquiries
• Record receipt of goods
• Research/Resolve exceptions

Inspect material quality

• Inspect goods/services
• Return goods/services
• Verify effectiveness of inventory control and quality

Manage suppliers

• Monitor/Manage supplier information
• Prepare/Analyze procurement and vendor performance
• Support inventory and production processes
• Monitor quality of product delivered

Produce/Assemble/Test product

Define assembly and test (A&T) operations strategy

• Compile and update customer quality and service requirements
• Compile and update internal A&T operational capabilities
• Compile and update future market trends impacting A&T strategy
• Define product specific A&T operational quality and service
• Prepare capital appropriations requests
• Define outside supplier partner terms and conditions
• Disaggregate A&T operational gross budget to appropriate departments
• Disseminate A&T operational customer service and operations targets to the appropriate departmental organizations
• Publish annual assembly and test operating budget and plan
• Define all safety and environmental policies

Define manufacturing operations strategy

• Compile and update all manufacturing organization quality and service requirements
• Compile and update internal manufacturing operational capabilities
• Define product specific manufacturing quality and service
• Define operational practice policies, measures and performance targets that support goal fulfillment
• Determine capabilities gaps and closure strategies
• Prepare capital appropriations
• Disaggregate gross manufacturing operationsbudget to appropriate departments
• Disseminate manufacturing operations customer service and operations targets to the appropriate departmental organizations
• Publish annual manufacturing operations budget and plan

Plan production operations

• Compile and update all pertinent inputs from business planning and strategy department
• Develop intermediate range production and inventory plans
• Develop options for next period sales and operations planning meeting
• Conduct sales and operations planning (S&OP) periodic meeting and update final S&OP into detailed
• Determine final sourcing alternatives
• Generate master schedules with tooling rough cut capacity planning and maintenance
• Create production project with work breakdown structure
• Modify master plans and projects to accommodate logistics, maintenance and production tooling constraints
• Generate intermediate range material resource planning, distribution resource planning, capacity requirements planning (MRP, DRP, CRP)
• Publish annual plans to sales procurement transportation and manufacturing operations

Manage production equipment and facilities

• Manage equipment data
• Develop plant equipment preventative maintenance plans
• Develop physical plant preventative maintenance and energy management plans
• Schedule facility and equipment preventative maintenance
• Execute facility and equipment preventative maintenance
• Execute unplanned maintenance activities
• Determine and identify corrective actions

Schedule production

• Model and simulate plant
• Generate line level plan
• Generate detailed schedule
• Schedule production orders and create lots
• Schedule preventive (planned) maintenance (preventive maintenance orders)
• Schedule requested (unplanned) maintenance (work order cycle)
• Release production orders and create lots

Schedule production operations

• Generate short range DRP, MRP, and CRP
• Conduct periodic meetings on short schedule - operations, procurement, tooling and maintenance
• Transfer final schedules to operating departments
• Perform ongoing net change MRP or DRP and optimize
• Perform full regeneration MRP or DRP and analyze
• Create and release production orders/batches
• Create run schedule header
• Manage ongoing schedule changes interactions with customers, suppliers, production, tooling and maintenance
• Develop contract pegging relationships
• Provide daily delivery schedules to external suppliers
• Generate and print internal pick lists
• Generate and communicate delivery requirements to internal and external shipping points
• Reschedule backlog orders and inbound shipments
• Receive electronic numeric control (NC) tapes and load
• Receive and review work instructions
• Receive and review quality instructions
• Receive and review production schedules
• Receive and review tooling pick lists and allocate
• Receive confirmations from plant maintenance
• Allocate gauging and miscellaneous measurement devices
• Perform setup activities
• Confirm material availability

Produce product

• Manage raw material inventory
• Execute detailed line schedule
• Report maintenance issues
• Rerun defective items
• Monitor and optimize production process
• Automate and control plant
• Perform advanced process control
• Perform real-time optimization
• Manage plant alarms and alerts
• Assess production performance

Execute production operations

• Issue goods against purchase order (PO) or batch
• Receive goods to purchase order (PO) or batch
• Refer material for manufacturing change
• Quarantine material for quality hold/check
• Execute production activities
• Perform in-line product inspections
• Perform post production inspections
• Refer nonconforming material for disposition
• Downgrade/upgrade material
• Quarantine nonconformance matériel
• Record production related data
• Back flush inventory
• Close batches or PO
• Consume demand forecast
• Execute packaging and labeling activities
• Enter run schedule header
• Reconcile and close run schedule header
• Record and track piece part serial numbers
• Record calibration data and measurement device
• Obtain aircraft production certification

Perform quality testing

• Calibrate test equipment
• Perform testing using the standard testing procedure
• Record test results

Manage product quality

• Update governmental and regulatory quality requirements
• Benchmark industry quality capabilities
• Compile and update the cost of quality
• Compile and update the costs of quality nonconformance
• Update quality targets and tolerances
• Develop quality sampling and analysis
• Allocate gauging and miscellaneous measurement devices against production orders/batchers
• Develop training material for operators carrying out quality activities
• Track and analyze non-conformance trends
• Perform root cause analysis
• Perform product design/process improvement analysis
• Deploy product redesigns/process
• Perform internal quality audits
• Perform external quality audits
• Perform statistical process control (SPC) analysis
• Perform six-sigma activities
• Generate International Standards Organization (ISO) or similar documentation
• Provide feedback to engineering and product
• Adjust inventories/scrap - materials disposition
• Manage reject/rework and on-hold materials
• Conduct claims related quality investigations

Maintain production records and manage lot traceability

• Determine lot numbering system
• Determine lot use

Manage production tooling operations

• Receive high level tool design request from new product development process (new tools)
• Receive request to modify or repair an existing tool from engineering or operations
• Develop the cost estimate to buy or make the tools - with availability date
• Obtain approval to proceed or cancel work order
• Complete detailed design of final tool
• Generate a work order or purchase request
• Manufacture or receive final tools
• Allocate gauging /measurement devices to production
• Manage tool inventories
• Manage crib inventory
• Manage crib operations
• Perform fixed tool life cycle management
• Manage gauge and measurement device calibrations
• Create individual tracking record (for individually identified (serialized) tools)
• Record and track serialized tool issuance to operators

Control and report production operations

• Record production operations information
• Capture and communicate work order batch status
• Communicate all inventory status - real-time
• Communicate human resource status
• Communicate equipment status
• Communicate schedules - including downtime and setup
• Communicate maintenance activities and schedules
• Generate and communicate field analytical reports
• Communicate preemptive and predictive feedback to operations to change practices or schedules

Manage product and process related data

• Create and maintain material masters, BOM, routings and other production data
• Maintain product specifications
• Maintain product catalogs
• Maintain operating instructions (operations component)
• Maintain process control parameter data
• Maintain product and process related documentation

Develop and implement production rate increase methodology

• Define method for identifying all impacted partners, suppliers and internal facilities
• Define mechanism to be used to communicate rate increase requirements
• Define method to be applied by partners, suppliers, internal facilities to assess capabilities
• Define mechanism by which results of Rate Increase studies can be returned
• Define mechanism by which returned rate increase study results can be consolidated
• Define mechanism by which the results of a Production Rate increase assessment can be communicated
• Confirm the frequency (ad-hoc, periodic, event driven) with which studies will be released

Manage logistics and warehousing

Provide logistics governance

• Translate customer service requirements into logistics requirements
• Design logistics network
• Communicate outsourcing needs
• Develop and maintain delivery service policy
• Optimize transportation schedules and costs
• Define key performance measures
• Define reverse logistics strategy

Plan and manage inbound material flow

• Plan inbound material receipts
• Manage inbound material flow
• Monitor inbound delivery performance
• Manage flow of returned products
• Control quality of returned parts
• Salvage or repair returned products
• Perform salvage activities
• Manage repair/refurbishment and return to customer/stock

Operate warehousing

• Track inventory deployment
• Receive, inspect, and store inbound deliveries
• Track product availability
• Pick, pack, and ship product for delivery
• Track inventory accuracy
• Track third-party logistics storage and shipping performance
• Manage physical finished goods inventory
• Manage warehouse transfers

Operate outbound transportation

• Plan, transport, and deliver outbound product
• Track carrier delivery performance
• Manage transportation fleet
• Process and audit carrier invoices and documents
• Prepare package and shipment
• Manage shipping, carriers, and fleets

Manage returns; manage reverse logistics

• Perform reverse logistics
• Manage and process warranty claims

Plan material handling and storage

• Collect and analyze material handling and storage information
• Determine material capacity requirements
• Determine material handling requirements
• Identify requirements to modify facilities layout
• Identify changes to material handling
• Identify changes to material storage systems/procedures
• Define stock placement strategies, procedures, and systems
• Define stock location strategies, procedures, and systems
• Define stock retrieval strategies, procedures, and systems

Manage inventory storage, location and movement

• Recognize transfer requests (internal move/external move)
• Locate stock
• Prepare stock for movement
• Physically move stock
• Maintain inventory status
• Perform physical inventory procedures
• Collect, report, and analyze logistics
• Identify obsolete goods for disposition
• Adjust inventory

Manage hazardous materials and waste

• Maintain material safety data sheets
• Maintain awareness of and communicate regulatory requirements
• Maintain hazardous material handling and disposal
• Manage compliance audits
• Recognize need to disposition hazardous materials/waste
• Determine disposition and associated processing
• Manage disposition, disposal, reprocessing activities
• Manage documentation and reporting

Manage kitting operations

• Define kitting requirements
• Request materials
• Build kits
• Issue materials to kits/consumption
• Prepare kits for transfer
• Manage returnable fixtures, containers, and tools
• Manage labeling of kits

Deliver Services

Establish service delivery governance and strategies

Establish service delivery governance

• Set up and maintain service delivery governance and management system
• Manage service delivery performance
• Manage service delivery development and direction
• Solicit feedback from customer on service delivery satisfaction

Develop service delivery strategies

• Define service delivery goals
• Define labor policies
• Evaluate resource availability
• Define service delivery network and supply constraints
• Define service delivery process
• Review and validate service delivery procedures
• Define service delivery workplace layout and infrastructure

Manage service delivery resources

Manage service delivery resource demand

• Monitor pipeline
• Develop baseline forecasts
• Collaborate with customers
• Develop consensus forecast
• Determine availability of skills to deliver on current and forecast customer orders
• Monitor activity against forecast and revise forecast
• Evaluate and revise forecasting approach
• Measure forecast accuracy

Create and manage resource plan

• Define and manage skills taxonomy
• Create resource plan
• Match resource demand with capacity, skills, and capabilities
• Collaborate with suppliers and partners to supplement skills and capabilities
• Identify critical resources and supplier capacity
• Monitor and manage resource capacity and availability

Provide MRO related training

• Develop MRO training plan
• Develop training materials
• Maintains service bulletins/catalogues
• Manage training schedule
• Deliver operations training
• Deliver technical training
• Perform skill and capability testing
• Perform technical certification testing
• Evaluate training effectiveness
• Maintain service master for training

Deliver digital services to customers

• Deliver Aircraft Health Monitoring Services (AHMS)
• Deliver loadable software services
• Deliver predictive analytics and optimization services

Deliver service to customer

Initiate service delivery

• Review contract and agreed terms
• Understand customer requirements and define refine approach
• Modify/revise and approve project plan
• Review customer business objectives
• Confirm environmental readiness
• Identify, select, and assign resources
• Establish people objectives
• Establish engagement rules
• Plan for service delivery

Execute service delivery

• Analyze environment and customer needs
• Define solution
• Validate solution
• Identify changes
• Obtain approval to proceed
• Make build/buy solution
• Deploy solution

Complete service delivery

• Conduct service delivery/project review and evaluate success
• Complete/finalize financial management activities
• Confirm delivery according to contract terms
• Release resources
• Manage service delivery completion
• Harvest knowledge
• Archive records and update systems

Manage Customer Service

Develop customer care/customer service strategy

Define customer service requirements across the enterprise

Define customer service experience

Define and manage customer service channel strategy

Develop customer service segmentation/prioritization (e.g., tiers)

• Analyze existing customers
• Analyze feedback of customer's needs

Define customer service policies and procedures

Establish target service level for each customer segment

Define warranty offering

• Determine and document warranty policies
• Create and manage warranty rules/claim codes for products
• Agree on warranty responsibilities with suppliers
• Define warranty related offerings for customers
• Communicate warranty policies and offerings

Develop recall strategy

Plan and manage customer service contacts

Plan and manage customer service work force

• Forecast volume of customer service contacts
• Schedule customer service work force
• Track work force utilization
• Monitor and evaluate quality of customer interactions with customer service representatives

Manage customer service problems, requests, and inquiries

• Receive customer problems, requests, and inquiries
• Analyze problems, requests, and inquiries
• Resolve customer problems, requests, and inquiries
• Respond to customer problems, requests, and inquiries
• Identify and capture upsell/cross-sell opportunities
• Deliver opportunity to sales team
• Support customer order status inquiry
• Support customer deliver status inquiry
• Support customer financial inquiry

Manage customer complaints

• Receive customer complaints
• Route customer complaints
• Resolve customer complaints
• Respond to customer complaints
• Support customer complaints and service
• Analyze customer complaints and response/redressal

Process returns

• Authorize return
• Process return and record reason

Report incidents and risks to regulatory bodies

Service products after sales

Register products

Process warranty claims

• Receive warranty claim
• Validate warranty claim
• Investigate warranty issues
• Define issue
• Schedule field service
• Request and receive defective part
• Investigate issue/perform root cause analysis
• Receive investigation result/recommendation for corrective action
• Determine responsible party
• Manage preauthorizations
• Approve or reject warranty claim
• Notify originator of approve/reject decision
• Authorize payment
• Close claim
• Reconcile warranty transaction disposition

Manage supplier recovery

• Create supplier recovery claims
• Negotiate recoveries with suppliers

Service products

• Identify and schedule resources to meet service requirements
• Create resourcing plan and schedule
• Create service order fulfillment schedule
• Provide service to specific customers
• Organize daily service order fulfillment schedule
• Execute product repair
• Manage service order fulfillment
• Ensure quality of service
• Identify completed service orders for feedback
• Identify incomplete service orders and service failures
• Solicit customer feedback on services delivered
• Process customer feedback on services delivered

Manage product recalls and regulatory audits

Initiate recall

Assess the likelihood and consequences of occurrence of any hazards

Manage recall related communications

Submit regulatory reports

Monitor and audit recall effectiveness

Manage recall termination

Evaluate customer service operations and customer satisfaction

Measure customer satisfaction with customer problems, requests, and inquiries handling

• Solicit customer feedback on customer service experience
• Analyze customer service data and identify improvement opportunities
• Provide customer feedback to product management on customer service experience

Measure customer satisfaction with customer- complaint handling and resolution

• Solicit customer feedback on complaint handling and resolution
• Analyze customer complaint data and identify improvement opportunities
• Identify common customer complaints

Measure customer satisfaction with products and services

• Gather and solicit post-sale customer feedback on products and services
• Solicit post-sale customer feedback on ad effectiveness
• Solicit customer feedback on cross-channel experience
• Analyze product and service satisfaction data and identify improvement opportunities
• Provide feedback and insights to appropriate teams (product design/development, marketing, manufacturing)

Evaluate and manage warranty performance

• Measure customer satisfaction with warranty handling and resolution
• Monitor and report on warranty management metrics
• Identify improvement opportunities
• Identify opportunities to eliminate warranty waste
• Investigate fraudulent claims

Evaluate recall performance

• Manage recalls

Develop and Manage Human Capital

Develop and manage human resources (HR) planning, policies, and strategies

Develop human resources strategy

• Identify strategic HR needs
• Define HR and business function roles and accountability
• Determine HR costs
• Establish HR measures
• Communicate HR strategies
• Develop strategy for HR systems/technologies/tools
• Manage employer branding

Develop and implement workforce strategy and policies

• Gather skill requirements according to corporate strategy and market environment
• Plan employee resourcing requirements per business unit/organization
• Develop compensation plan
• Establish incentive plan
• Develop succession plan
• Develop high performers/leadership programs
• Develop employee diversity plan
• Develop training program
• Develop recruitment program
• Develop other HR programs
• Develop HR policies
• Administer HR policies
• Plan employee benefits
• Develop workforce strategy models
• Implement workforce strategy models

Monitor and update strategy, plans, and policies

• Measure realization of objectives
• Measure contribution to business strategy
• Communicate plans and provide updates to stakeholders
• Review and revise HR plans

Develop competency management models

Recruit, source, and select employees

Manage employee requisitions

• Align staffing plan to work force plan and business unit strategies/resource needs
• Develop and maintain job descriptions
• Open job requisitions
• Post job requisitions
• Modify job requisitions
• Notify hiring manager
• Manage requisition dates

Recruit/Source candidates

• Determine recruitment methods and channels
• Perform recruiting activities/events
• Manage recruitment vendors
• Manage employee referral programs
• Manage recruitment channels

Screen and select candidates

• Identify and deploy candidate selection tools
• Interview candidates
• Test candidates
• Select and reject candidates

Manage new hire/re-hire

• Draw up and make offer
• Negotiate offer
• Hire candidate

Manage applicant information

• Obtain candidate background information
• Create applicant record
• Manage/track applicant data
• Complete position classification and level of experience
• Archive and retain records of non-hires

Manage employee on boarding, development, and training

Manage employee orientation and deployment

• Create/maintain employee on-boarding program
• Develop employee induction program
• Maintain/Update employee induction program
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the employee on-boarding program
• Execute on-boarding program

Manage employee performance

• Define employee performance objectives
• Review, appraise, and manage employee performance
• Evaluate and review performance program

Manage employee development

• Define employee development guidelines
• Develop employee career plans and career paths
• Manage employee skill and competency development

Develop and train employees

• Align employee with organization development needs
• Define employee competencies
• Align learning programs with competencies
• Establish training needs by analysis of required and available skills
• Develop, conduct, and manage employee and/or management training programs
• Manage examinations and certifications
• Liaise with external certification authorities
• Administer certification tests
• Appraise experience qualifications
• Administer certificate issue and maintenance

Manage employee relations

Manage labor relations

Manage collective bargaining process

Manage labor management partnerships

Manage employee grievances

Reward and retain employees

Develop and manage reward, recognition, and motivation programs

• Develop salary/compensation structure and plan
• Develop benefits and reward plan
• Perform competitive analysis of benefit and rewards
• Identify compensation requirements based on financial, benefits, and HR policies
• Administer compensation and rewards to employees
• Reward and motivate employees

Manage and administer benefits

• Deliver employee benefits program
• Administer benefit enrollment
• Process claims
• Perform benefit reconciliation

Manage employee assistance and retention

• Deliver programs to support work/life balance for employees
• Develop family support systems
• Review retention and motivation indicators
• Review compensation plan

Administer payroll

Redeploy and retire employees

Manage promotion and demotion process

Manage separation

Manage retirement

Manage leave of absence

Develop and implement employee outplacement

Manage workforce scheduling

• Receive required resources/skills and capabilities
• Manage resource deployment

Relocate employees and manage assignments

• Manage expatriates

Manage employee information and analytics

Manage reporting processes

Manage employee inquiry process

Manage and maintain employee data

Manage human resource information systems HRIS

Develop and manage employee metrics

Develop and manage time and attendance systems

Manage/Collect employee suggestions and perform employee research

Manage employee communication

Develop employee communication plan

Conduct employee engagement surveys

Deliver employee communications

Manage Information Technology (IT)

Develop and manage IT customer relationships

Understand IT customer needs

• Understand IT customer communities
• Assess IT customer operational capabilities

Identify IT customer transformation needs

• Understand business requirements for IT capabilities
• Understand IT landscape
• Develop IT visioning
• Outline IT service expectations

Plan and communicate IT services

• Manage IT customer expectations
• Define future IT services
• Determine IT performance indicators
• Create IT marketing messages
• Create IT service marketing plan

Provide IT transformation guidance

• Develop IT transformation plans
• Collect IT customer requirements
• Analyze IT customer requirements
• Identify and prioritize IT opportunities
• Facilitate solution design activities
• Prioritize IT outcomes
• Develop business cases
• Support business case
• Develop transformation roadmap

Develop and manage IT service levels

• Understand IT service requirements
• Forecast IT service demand
• Maintain IT services catalog
• Define service level agreement
• Maintain IT customer contracts
• Negotiate and establish service level agreements
• Develop and maintain improvement processes

Manage IT customer relationships

• Establish relationship management mechanisms
• Understand IT customer strategy
• Understand IT customer environment
• Communicate IT capabilities
• Manage IT requirements

Analyze service performance

• Assess SLA compliance
• Triage SLA compliance issues
• Collect feedback about IT products and services
• Synthesize and distribute IT performance information

Develop and manage IT business strategy

Define business technology and governance strategy

• Build and maintain IT strategic intelligence
• Monitor and map current and emerging technologies
• Define and communicate digital transformation strategy
• Develop IT strategic alignment
• Articulate IT alignment principles
• Maintain IT strategic alignment

Manage IT portfolio strategy

• Establish and validate IT value criteria
• Determine IT portfolio investment balance
• Evaluate proposed IT investment projects
• Prioritize IT projects
• Align IT resources to strategic priorities
• Align IT portfolio to business objectives

Define and maintain enterprise architecture

• Create and publish enterprise architecture principles
• Establish and operate enterprise architecture governance
• Research technologies to innovate IT services and solutions
• Provide input to definition and prioritization of IT projects

Define IT service management strategy

• Establish IT service management strategy and goals
• Identify IT service operating and process requirements
• Define IT service catalog
• Establish IT service management framework
• Define and implement IT service management
• Define and deploy support service management process tools and methods
• Monitor and report IT performance

Control IT management system

• Determine IT performance measures
• Define IT control points and assurance procedures governance model
• Monitor and analyze overall IT performance
• Monitor and analyze IT financial performance
• Monitor and analyze IT value and benefits
• Optimize IT resource allocation
• Manage IT projects and services interdependencies
• Report IT service and project performance
• Select, deploy, and operate IT performance analytics tools

Manage IT value portfolio

• Assess performance against IT service and project value criteria
• Quantify value of IT service and project portfolio investments
• Communicate business technology value contribution
• Determine and implement IT portfolio adjustments

Define and manage technology innovation

• Establish selection criteria for research initiatives
• Analyze emerging technology concepts
• Identify technology concepts and capabilities
• Execute IT research projects
• Evaluate IT research project outcomes
• Identify and promote viable concepts
• Develop and plan IT investment projects

Develop and manage IT resilience and risk

Develop IT compliance, risk, and security strategy

• Determine and evaluate IT regulatory and audit requirements
• Understand business unit risk tolerance
• Establish IT risk tolerance
• Establish risk ownership
• Establish and maintain risk management roles
• Establish compliance objectives
• Identify systems to support compliance
• Identify and evaluate IT risk
• Evaluate IT-related risks resiliency
• Create IT risk mitigation strategies and approaches

Develop IT resilience strategy

• Determine IT delivery resiliency
• Determine critical IT risks
• Prioritize IT risks
• Establish mitigation approaches for IT risks

Control IT risk, compliance, and security

• Evaluate enterprise regulatory and compliance obligations
• Analyze IT security threat impact
• Create and maintain IT compliance requirements
• Create and maintain IT security policies, standards, and procedures
• Develop and deploy risk management training
• Establish risk reporting capabilities and responsibilities
• Establish communication standards
• Conduct IT risk and threat assessments
• Monitor and manage IT activity risk
• Identify, supervise and monitor IT risk mitigation measures

Plan and manage IT continuity

• Evaluate IT continuity
• Identify IT continuity gaps
• Manage IT business continuity

Develop and manage IT security, privacy, and data protection

• Assess IT regulatory and confidentiality requirements and policies
• Create IT security, privacy, and data protection risk governance
• Define IT data security and privacy policies, standards, and procedures
• Review and monitor physical and logical IT data security measures
• Review and monitor application security controls
• Review and monitor IT physical environment security controls
• Monitor/analyze network intrusion detection data and resolve threats

Conduct and analyze IT compliance assessments

• Conduct projects to enhance IT compliance and remediate risk
• Conduct IT compliance control auditing of internal and external services
• Perform IT compliance reporting
• Identify and escalate IT compliance issues and remediation requirements
• Support external audits and reports

Develop and execute IT resilience and continuity operations

• Conduct IT resilience improvement projects
• Develop, document, and maintain IT business continuity planning
• Implement and enforce change control procedures
• Execute recurring IT service provider business continuity
• Provide IT resilience training
• Execute recurring IT business operations continuity

Manage IT user identity and authorization

• Support integration of identity and authorization policies
• Manage IT user directory
• Manage IT user authorization
• Manage IT user authentication mechanisms
• Audit IT user identity and authorization systems
• Respond to IT information security and network breaches
• Conduct penetration testing
• Audit integration of user identity and authorization systems

Manage information

Define business information and analytics strategy

• Establish data, information, and analytic objectives
• Establish data, information, and analytic governance
• Access IT data/analytic capabilities

Define and maintain business information architecture

• Determine enterprise business information requirements
• Define enterprise data models
• Identify and understand external data sources
• Establish data ownership and stewardship responsibilities
• Maintain and evolve enterprise data and information architecture

Define and execute business information lifecycle planning and control

• Define and maintain enterprise information policies, standards, and procedures
• Implement and execute data administration responsibilities

Manage business information content

• Monitor and control business information
• Maintain business information feeds and repositories
• Perform internal usage audits
• Implement and administer business information access

Develop and manage services/solutions

Develop service/solution and integration strategy

• Determine IT service/solution development
• Define IT service/solution development processes/standards
• Identify, deploy, and support development methodologies and tools
• Establish service component criteria
• Understand and select reusable service components
• Maintain service component portfolio
• Establish development standards exception governance

Manage service/solution lifecycle planning

• Monitor and track emerging technology capabilities
• Identify IT services/solutions
• Determine IT service/solution approach
• Define IT solution lifecycle
• Develop IT service/solution "sunset" plans

Develop and manage service/solution architecture

• Assess IT application and infrastructure architecture constraints
• Assess business constraints on IT service/solution
• Determine IT component integration requirements
• Identify opportunities for IT component reuse
• Promote adoption of existing service/solution architecture
• Develop and maintain service/solution architectures
• Assess IT service/solution architecture conformance
• Manage architectural exceptions

Execute IT service/solution creation and testing

• Execute IT service/solution development lifecycle
• Assess and validate IT service/solution requirements
• Create service/solution design
• Build and test IT service/solution components
• Integrate IT components and services
• Execute IT service/solution validation
• Bundle service/solution deployment packaging
• Manage service/solution process exceptions

Perform service/solution maintenance and testing

• Execute IT service/solution maintenance lifecycle
• Assess IT remediation
• Modify service/solution design
• Perform IT service/solution remediation
• Manage service/solution operations
• Prepare fixed/enhanced service/solution packaging

Deploy services/solutions

Develop and manage service/solution deployment strategy

• Assess IT deployment business impact
• Establish IT deployment policies
• Define and create deployment procedure workflow
• Define IT change/release standards
• Assign deployment approval responsibilities
• Analyze deployments outcomes

Plan service and solution implementation

• Assess IT deployment risk
• Define implementation schedule and roll-out sequence
• Determine implementation requirements
• Plan and align user testing and resources
• Develop IT training
• Create implementation communications
• Manage IT roll-back procedures

Manage change deployment control

• Asses IT change/release impact
• Confirm change/release compliance
• Assess IT change/release risk
• Consolidate IT change
• Create and communicate deployment schedule
• Approve change/release deployment
• Document IT change/release outcome

Implement technology solutions

• Confirm hardware/software operational status
• Confirm operational availability
• Execute internal IT implementation plan
• Confirm implementation completion
• Implement software change/release
• Perform post-installation testing
• Distribute software components network-wide
• Verify change/release implementation success
• Execute roll-back plan

Perform service and solution rollout

• Conduct IT training
• Prepare and distribute service/solution communications
• Support organizational changes
• Execute rollout plans
• Provide rollout support
• Manage rollout support capabilities
• Monitor and record rollout issues

Create and manage support services/solutions

Define and establish service delivery strategy

• Assess business objectives and IT service delivery
• Define IT service delivery portfolio
• Create and maintain IT service delivery model
• Determine IT service delivery locations and activities
• Define IT service delivery sourcing strategy

Define and develop service support strategy

• Assess business objectives and IT service support delivery
• Define IT service support portfolio
• Create and maintain IT support model
• Develop IT support service sourcing strategy
• Establish support service framework
• Provide service support tools and technology

Plan and manage service delivery control

• Plan operational activities for IT service delivery
• Schedule service delivery resources
• Maintain/optimize batch job schedule
• Schedule change/release windows
• Schedule/optimize backup and archive activities
• Balance operational workloads across available infrastructure components
• Determine specific problem support procedures

Develop and manage infrastructure resource planning

• Develop IT service delivery strategy
• Assess IT infrastructure business objectives
• Determine ongoing IT infrastructure capabilities
• Plan IT infrastructure change
• Plan and budget IT license usage volumes

Define service support planning

• Understand IT support demand patterns
• Determine required support resource levels, responsibilities, and capabilities
• Maintain service support knowledge repository
• Maintain service support learning
• Communicate service support needs
• Define IT escalation mechanisms
• Manage IT service support resources
• Coordinate with external support providers
• Triage IT service delivery incidents
• Monitor IT service support performance

Develop and manage service delivery operations

• Operate and monitor online systems
• Run and monitor batch job schedule
• Manage service delivery workloads
• Manage infrastructure performance and capacity
• Respond to unplanned operational issues
• Produce and distribute output media
• Monitor IT infrastructure security
• Manage IT infrastructure/data recovery

Manage infrastructure resource administration

• Manage infrastructure configuration
• Perform infrastructure component maintenance
• Install/configure/upgrade infrastructure components
• Maintain IT asset records
• Administer IT licenses/user agreements
• Provide IT infrastructure service and capabilities

Operate IT user support

• Triage IT issues/requests
• Provide IT resolution capabilities
• Manage IT user requests
• Escalate IT requests
• Resolve IT issues/requests
• Execute IT continuity and recovery action

Manage Financial Resources

Perform planning and management accounting

Perform planning/budgeting/forecasting

• Develop and maintain budget policies and procedures
• Prepare periodic budgets and plans
• Operationalize and implement plans to achieve budget
• Prepare periodic financial forecasts
• Perform variance analysis against forecasts and budgets

Perform cost accounting and control

• Perform inventory accounting
• Perform profit center accounting
• Perform cost of sales analysis
• Perform product costing
• Perform variance analysis
• Report on profitability

Perform cost management

• Determine key cost drivers
• Measure cost drivers
• Determine critical activities
• Manage asset resource deployment and utilization

Evaluate and manage financial performance

• Assess customer and product profitability
• Evaluate new products
• Perform life cycle costing
• Optimize customer and product mix
• Track performance of new-customer and product strategies
• Prepare activity-based performance measures
• Manage continuous cost improvement

Perform revenue accounting

Process customer credit

• Establish credit policies
• Analyze/Approve new account applications
• Analyze credit scoring history
• Forecast credit scoring requirement
• Review existing accounts
• Produce credit/collection reports
• Reinstate or suspend accounts based on credit policies

Invoice customer

• Maintain customer/product master files
• Generate customer billing data
• Transmit billing data to customers
• Post receivable entries
• Resolve customer billing inquiries

Process accounts receivable (AR)

• Establish AR policies
• Receive/Deposit customer payments
• Apply cash remittances
• Prepare AR reports
• Post AR activity to the general ledger

Manage and process collections

• Establish policies for delinquent accounts
• Analyze delinquent account balances
• Correspond/Negotiate with delinquent accounts
• Discuss account resolution with internal parties
• Process adjustments/write off balances
• Perform recovery workout
• Manage default accounts

Manage and process adjustments/deductions

• Establish policies/procedures for adjustments
• Analyze adjustments
• Correspond/Negotiate with customer
• Discuss resolution with internal parties
• Prepare chargeback invoices
• Process related entries

Perform general accounting and reporting

Manage policies and procedures

• Negotiate service-level agreements
• Establish accounting policies
• Publish accounting policies
• Set and enforce approval limits
• Establish common financial systems

Perform general accounting

• Maintain chart of accounts
• Process journal entries
• Process allocations
• Process period end adjustments
• Post and reconcile intercompany transactions
• Reconcile general ledger accounts
• Perform consolidations and process eliminations
• Prepare trial balance
• Prepare and post management adjustments

Perform fixed-asset accounting

• Establish fixed-asset policies and procedures
• Maintain fixed-asset master data files
• Process and record fixed-asset additions and retires
• Process and record fixed-asset adjustments, enhancements, revaluations, and transfers
• Process and record fixed-asset maintenance and repair expenses
• Calculate and record depreciation expense
• Reconcile fixed-asset ledger
• Track fixed-assets including physical inventory
• Provide fixed-asset data to support tax, statutory, and regulatory reporting

Perform financial reporting

• Prepare business unit financial statements
• Prepare consolidated financial statements
• Perform business unit reporting/review management reports
• Perform consolidated reporting/review of cost management reports
• Prepare statements for board review
• Produce quarterly/annual filings and shareholder reports
• Produce regulatory reports
• Perform legal and management consolidation

Manage fixed-asset project accounting

Perform capital planning and project approval

• Develop capital investment policies and procedures
• Develop and approve capital expenditure plans and budgets
• Review and approve capital projects and fixed-asset acquisitions
• Conduct financial justification for project approval

Perform capital project accounting

• Create project account codes
• Record project-related transactions
• Monitor and track capital projects and budget spending
• Close/capitalize projects
• Measure financial returns on completed capital projects

Process payroll

Report time

• Establish policies and procedures
• Collect and record employee time worked
• Analyze and report paid and unpaid leave
• Monitor regular, overtime, and other hours
• Analyze and report employee utilization

Manage pay

• Enter employee time worked into payroll system
• Maintain and administer employee earnings information
• Maintain and administer applicable deductions
• Monitor changes in tax status of employees
• Process and distribute payments
• Process and distribute manual checks
• Process period-end adjustments
• Respond to employee payroll inquiries

Manage and process payroll taxes

• Develop tax plan
• Manage tax plan
• Calculate and pay applicable payroll taxes
• Produce and distribute employee annual tax statements
• File regulatory payroll tax forms

Process accounts payable and expense reimbursements

Process accounts payable (AP)

• Verify AP pay file with purchase order vendor master file
• Maintain/Manage electronic commerce
• Audit invoices and key data in AP system
• Approve payments
• Process financial accruals and reversals
• Process payables taxes
• Research/Resolve payable exceptions
• Process payments
• Respond to AP inquiries
• Retain records
• Adjust accounting records
• Match receipts with purchase orders
• Perform evaluated receipt settlement
• Process invoices
• Process recurring invoices
• Process one-time invoices

Process expense reimbursements

• Establish and communicate expense reimbursement policies and approval limits
• Capture and report relevant tax data
• Approve reimbursements and advances
• Process reimbursements and advances
• Manage personnel accounts

Manage corporate credit cards

• Establish corporate credit card policies and approval limits
• Process corporate credit card requests
• Order corporate credit cards
• Manage corporate credit card accounts
• Approve/Change credit limits
• Cancel/Deactivate credit card

Manage treasury operations

Manage treasury policies and procedures

• Establish scope and governance of treasury operations
• Establish and publish treasury policies
• Develop treasury procedures
• Monitor treasury procedures
• Audit treasury procedures
• Revise treasury procedures
• Develop and confirm internal controls for treasury
• Define system security requirements

Manage cash

• Manage and reconcile cash positions
• Manage cash equivalents
• Process and oversee electronic fund transfers (EFTs)
• Develop cash flow forecasts
• Manage cash flows
• Produce cash management accounting transactions and reports
• Manage and oversee banking relationships
• Analyze, negotiate, resolve, and confirm bank fees

Manage in-house bank accounts

• Manage in-house bank accounts for subsidiaries
• Manage and facilitate inter-company borrowing transactions
• Manage centralized outgoing payments on behalf of subsidiaries
• Manage central incoming payments on behalf of subsidiaries
• Manage internal payments and netting transactions
• Calculate interest and fees for in-house bank accounts
• Provide account statements for in-house bank accounts

Manage debt and investment

• Establish investment policy
• Manage financial intermediary relationships
• Manage liquidity
• Manage issuer exposure
• Process and oversee debt and investment transactions
• Process and oversee foreign currency transactions
• Produce debt and investment accounting transaction reports
• Process and oversee interest rate transactions

Maintain bank account information

Monitor and execute risk and hedging transactions

• Develop risk management/hedging strategy
• Manage interest rate risk
• Manage interest rate market data
• Determine interest rate exposure for all markets
• Determine interest rate hedge requirements in accordance with risk policy
• Execute interest rate trades
• Manage foreign exchange risk
• Manage foreign exchange market data
• Determine foreign exchange exposure for all currencies
• Determine foreign exchange hedge requirements in accordance with risk policy
• Execute foreign exchange trades
• Manage foreign exchange balance sheet risk
• Manage exposure risk
• Determine current customer exposures and limit exceptions
• Resolve customer exposure limit violations
• Manage customer collateral
• Perform annual customer credit reviews
• Execute hedging transactions
• Measure physical positions
• Establish hedges
• Unwind hedges
• Evaluate and refine hedging positions
• Monitor credit
• Produce hedge accounting transactions and reports

Manage financial fraud/dispute cases

Manage internal controls

Establish internal controls, policies, and procedures

• Establish board of directors and audit committee
• Define and communicate code of ethics
• Assign roles and responsibility for internal controls
• Define business process objectives and risks
• Define entity/unit risk tolerances

Operate controls and monitor compliance with internal controls policies and procedures

• Design and implement control activities
• Monitor control effectiveness
• Remediate control deficiencies
• Create compliance function
• Operate compliance function
• Implement and maintain controls-related enabling technologies and tools

Report on internal controls compliance

• Report to external auditors
• Report to regulators, share-/debt-holders, securities exchanges, etc.
• Report to third parties
• Report to internal management

Manage taxes

Develop tax strategy and plan

• Develop foreign, national, state, and local tax strategy
• Consolidate and optimize total tax plan
• Maintain tax master data

Process taxes

• Perform tax planning/strategy
• Prepare tax returns
• Prepare foreign taxes
• Calculate deferred taxes
• Account for taxes
• Monitor tax compliance
• Address tax inquiries

Manage international funds/consolidation

Monitor international rates

Manage transactions

Monitor currency exposure/hedge currency

Report results

Perform global trade services

Screen sanctioned party list

Control exports and imports

Classify products

Perform currency conversion

Calculate duty

Communicate with customs

Document trade

Process trade preferences

Handle restitution

Prepare letter of credit

Acquire, Construct, and Manage Assets

Plan and acquire assets

Develop property strategy and long term vision

• Confirm alignment of property requirements with business strategy
• Appraise the external environment
• Determine build or buy decision

Develop, construct, and modify sites

• Obtain construction permissions
• Perform construction design and planning
• Perform construction

Plan facility

• Design facility
• Design / define maintenance facility
• Analyze budget
• Select property
• Negotiate terms for facility
• Manage construction or modification to building

Provide workspace and facilities

• Acquire workspace and facilities
• Change fit/form/function of workspace and facilities

Manage facilities operations

• Relocate people
• Relocate material and tools

Design and construct productive assets

Manage capital program for productive assets

• Define capital investment plan
• Monitor capital program
• Secure construction financing

Design and plan asset construction

• Develop construction strategy
• Perform construction performance management
• Design assets
• Plan construction resources

Schedule and perform construction work

• Schedule construction work
• Obtain resources
• Construct new assets
• Augment existing assets
• Renew/Replace assets

Manage asset construction

• Monitor work performance
• Undertake construction quality control
• Create work and asset records
• Manage safety, security, and access to sites

Commission new assets

• Schedule commissioning
• Co-ordinate energization with network operations
• Capture commissioning records

Maintain productive assets

Plan asset maintenance

• Develop maintenance strategies
• Analyze assets and predict maintenance requirements
• Specify maintenance policies
• Integrate preventive maintenance into operations schedule
• Identify work management tasks & priorities
• Conduct resource planning
• Create work plans

Manage asset maintenance

• Schedule maintenance work
• Obtain required resources
• Undertake maintenance quality control
• Update work and asset records
• Manage maintenance work safety
• Define maintenance performance targets
• Monitor maintenance performance against targets/contracts

Perform asset maintenance

• Perform preventative asset maintenance
• Perform routine asset maintenance
• Perform corrective asset maintenance and repairs
• Identify unplanned maintenance requirements
• Perform unplanned maintenance and repairs

Perform component/part repair and overhaul activities

• Perform repair provider selection and interaction
• Receive component / part and analyze fault
• Test component / part
• Perform beyond economic repair (BER) assessment
• Prioritize repairs (based on aircraft on ground (AOG))
• Establish availability of components / parts requiring repair
• Perform repairs
• Track component / part repairs (internal / external)
• Document repair testing
• Deliver repaired component/ part and relevant documentation
• Provide billing / invoice data to finance
• Manage system and process integration

Define and manage maintenance capacities

• Define and oversee maintenance capacities
• Plan maintenance work
• Develop and manage operational capacity plan

Perform maintenance activities

• Receive aircraft
• Generate quote for additional maintenance and obtain approval to proceed
• Perform aircraft / part maintenance
• Provide status reporting
• Manage certification documentation
• Compile aircraft component change and configuration management data
• Manage task card lifecycle (issue, assign, work, approve, close) compliance
• Manage third party provider interactions
• Provide invoice / billing data to finance

Manage ongoing maintenance, repair and overhaul service contracts

• Manage customer master information
• Manage customer pricing and quotations
• Manage customer claims processing
• Facilitate customer complaints seminars
• Facilitate customer design reviews and Initiatives
• Identify product improvements
• Support proposal activities
• Provide cost/price data

Provide field-level support preparation

• Process customer request for service
• Determine resource and material requirements
• Provide pricing and quotations
• Generate service orders
• Generate service order documentation
• Secure resources and materials
• Manage subcontracts
• Develop maintenance plans

Dispose of assets

Develop exit strategy

Decommission productive assets

Perform sale or trade

Perform abandonment

Perform waste and hazardous goods management

Manage Enterprise Risk, Compliance, Remediation, and Resiliency

Manage enterprise risk

Establish the enterprise risk framework and policies

• Determine risk tolerance for organization
• Develop and maintain enterprise risk policies and procedures
• Identify and implement enterprise risk management tools
• Coordinate the sharing of risk knowledge across the organization
• Prepare and report enterprise risk to executive management and board

Oversee and coordinate enterprise risk management activities

• Identify enterprise level risks
• Assess risks to determine which to mitigate
• Develop risk mitigation and management strategy and integrate with existing performance management processes
• Verify business unit and functional risk mitigation plans are implemented
• Ensure risks and risk mitigation actions are monitored
• Report on enterprise risk activities
• Coordinate business unit and functional risk management activities
• Ensure that each business unit/function follows the enterprise risk management process
• Ensure that each business unit/function follows the enterprise risk reporting process

Manage business unit and function risk

• Identify risks
• Assess risks using enterprise risk framework policies and procedures
• Develop mitigation plans for risks
• Assess adequacy of insurance coverage
• Implement mitigation plans for risks
• Monitor risks
• Analyze risk activities and update plans
• Report on function risk activities

Manage compliance

Establish compliance framework and policies

• Develop enterprise compliance policies and procedures
• Implement enterprise compliance activities
• Manage internal audits
• Maintain controls-related technologies and tools

Manage regulatory compliance

• Develop regulatory compliance procedures
• Identify applicable regulatory requirements
• Monitor the regulatory environment for changing or emerging regulations
• Assess current compliance position and identify weaknesses or shortfalls therein
• Implement missing or stronger regulatory compliance controls and policies
• Monitor and test regulatory compliance position and existing controls
• Compile and communicate compliance scorecard(s)
• Compile and communicate internal and regulatory compliance reports
• Maintain relationships with regulators as appropriate
• Certify capabilities

Manage remediation efforts

Create remediation plans

Contact and confer with experts

Identify/Dedicate resources

Investigate legal aspects

Investigate damage cause

Amend or create policy

Manage business resiliency

Develop the business resilience strategy

Perform continuous business operations planning

Test continuous business operations

Maintain continuous business operations

Share knowledge of specific risks across other parts of the organization

Manage External Relationships

Build investor relationships

Plan, build, and manage lender relations

Plan, build, and manage analyst relations

Communicate with shareholders

Manage government and industry relationships

Manage government relations

• Assess relationships
• Appoint responsible executives
• Monitor relationships
• Receive input from internal advisors
• Receive input from external advisors
• Liaise with authorities

Manage relations with quasi-government bodies

• Establish relationships with agencies
• Respond to audit inquiries
• Maintain documentation of contacts
• Plan and manage meetings

Manage relations with trade or industry groups

• Evaluate the requirements for strategic relationships
• Monitor the success of the partnerships
• Extend or change the relationships

Manage lobby activities

Manage relations with board of directors

Report financial results

Report audit findings

Manage legal and ethical issues

Create ethics policies

Manage corporate governance policies

Develop and perform preventive law programs

Ensure compliance

• Plan and initiate compliance program
• Execute compliance program

Manage outside counsel

• Assess problem and determine work requirements
• Engage/Retain outside counsel if necessary
• Receive strategy/budget
• Receive work product and manage/monitor case and work performed
• Process payment for legal services
• Track legal activity/performance

Protect intellectual property

• Manage copyrights, patents, and trademarks
• Maintain intellectual property rights and restrictions
• Administer licensing terms
• Administer options

Resolve disputes and litigations

Provide legal advice/counseling

Negotiate and document agreements/contracts

Manage public relations program

Manage community relations

Manage media relations

Promote political stability

Create press releases

Issue press releases

Develop and Manage Business Capabilities

Manage business processes

Establish and maintain process management governance

• Define and manage governance approach
• Establish and maintain process tools and templates
• Assign and support process ownership
• Perform process governance activities

Define and manage process frameworks

• Establish and maintain process framework
• Identify cross-functional processes

Define processes

• Scope processes
• Analyze processes
• Identify published best practices
• Model and document processes
• Publish processes

Manage process performance

• Provide process training
• Support process execution
• Measure and report process performance
• Identify additional metrics as required

Improve processes

• Identify and select improvement opportunities
• Manage improvement projects
• Perform continuous improvement activities

Manage portfolio, program, and project

Manage portfolio

• Establish portfolio strategy
• Define portfolio governance
• Monitor and control portfolio

Manage programs

• Establish program structure and approach
• Manage program stakeholders and partners
• Manage program execution
• Review and report program performance

Manage projects

• Establish project scope
• Identify project requirements and objectives
• Identify project resource requirements
• Assess culture and readiness for project management approach
• Create business case and obtain funding
• Develop project measures and indicators
• Identify appropriate project management methodologies
• Develop project plans
• Define roles and resources
• Acquire/secure project resources
• Identify specific IT requirements
• Create training and communication plans
• Design recognition and reward approaches
• Design and plan launch of project
• Deploy the project
• Execute projects
• Evaluate impact of project management (strategy and projects) on measures and outcomes
• Report the status of project
• Manage project scope
• Promote and sustain activity and involvement
• Realign and refresh project management strategy and approaches
• Review and report project performance
• Close projects

Manage enterprise quality

Establish quality requirements

• Define critical-to-quality characteristics
• Define preventive quality activities
• Develop quality controls
• Define process steps for controls (or integration points)
• Define sampling plan
• Identify measurement methods
• Define required competencies
• Prove capability to assess compliance with requirements
• Finalize quality plan

Evaluate performance to requirements

• Test against quality plan
• Conduct test and collect data
• Record result(s)
• Determine disposition of result(s)
• Assess results of tests
• Assess sample significance
• Summarize result(s)
• Recommend actions
• Decide next steps

Manage non-conformance

• Assess potential impact
• Determine immediate action(s)
• Identify root cause(s)
• Take corrective or preventative action
• Close non-conformance

Implement and maintain the enterprise quality management system (EQMS)

• Define the quality strategy
• Plan and deploy the EQMS scope, targets, and goals
• Identify core EQMS processes, controls, and metrics
• Develop and document EQMS policies, procedures, standards, and measures
• Assess the EQMS performance
• Set service level standards
• Create environment and capability for EQMS improvement(s)
• Reward quality excellence
• Create and maintain quality partnerships
• Maintain talent capabilities and competencies
• Incorporate EQMS messaging into communication channels
• Assure independent EQMS management access to appropriate authority in the organization
• Transfer proven EQMS methods

Manage change

Plan for change

• Select process improvement methodology
• Determine stakeholders
• Assess readiness for change
• Identify change champion(s)
• Form design team
• Define scope
• Understand current state
• Define future state
• Conduct organizational risk analysis
• Assess cultural issues
• Identify impacted groups
• Determine degree/extent of impact
• Establish accountability for change management
• Identify barriers to change
• Determine change enablers
• Identify resources and develop measures

Design the change

• Assess connection to other initiatives
• Develop change management plans
• Develop training plan
• Develop communication plan
• Assign change champion(s)
• Develop rewards/incentives plan
• Establish change adoption metrics
• Establish/Clarify new roles
• Identify budget/roles

Implement change

• Create commitment for improvement/change
• Reengineer business processes and systems
• Support transition to new roles or exit strategies for incumbents
• Monitor change
• Report on change

Sustain improvement

• Monitor improved process performance
• Capture and reuse lessons learned from change process
• Take corrective action as necessary

Develop and manage enterprise-wide knowledge management (KM) capability

Develop KM strategy

• Develop governance model with roles and accountability
• Define roles and accountability of core group versus operating units
• Develop funding models
• Identify links to key initiatives
• Develop core KM methodologies
• Assess IT needs and engage IT function
• Develop training and communication plans
• Develop change management approaches
• Develop strategic measures and indicators

Assess KM capabilities

• Assess maturity of existing KM initiatives
• Evaluate existing KM approaches
• Identify gaps and needs

Design and implement KM capabilities

• Develop new KM approaches
• Design resource model for KM approaches
• Implement new KM approaches
• Leverage and enhance IT for KM approaches
• Develop measures

Evolve and sustain KM capabilities

• Enhance/Modify existing KM approaches
• Sustain awareness and engagement
• Expand KM infrastructure to meet demand

Measure and benchmark

Create and manage organizational performance strategy

• Create enterprise measurement systems model
• Measure process efficiency
• Measure cost effectiveness
• Measure staff productivity
• Measure cycle time

Benchmark performance

• Conduct performance assessments
• Develop benchmarking capabilities
• Conduct internal process and external competitive benchmarking
• Conduct gap analysis
• Establish need for change

Evaluate process performance

• Establish appropriate performance indicators (metrics)
• Establish monitoring frequency
• Collect performance data
• Calculate performance measures
• Identify performance trends
• Analyze performance against benchmark data
• Prepare reports
• Develop performance improvement plan

Manage environmental health and safety (EHS)

Determine environmental health and safety impacts

• Evaluate environmental impact of products, services, and operations
• Conduct health and safety and environmental audits

Develop and execute functional EHS program

• Identify regulatory and stakeholder requirements
• Assess future risks and opportunities
• Create EHS policy
• Record and manage EHS events

Train and educate functional employees

• Communicate EHS issues to stakeholders and provide support

Monitor and manage functional EHS management program

• Manage EHS costs and benefits
• Measure and report EHS performance
• Implement emergency response program
• Implement pollution prevention program
• Provide employees with EHS support

Develop, Manage, and Deliver Analytics

Develop and manage hypotheses

Collect data

Analyze data

Report on data

Identify remedial actions