ATR, the world-leading turboprop manufacturer, announced today that in the scope of its ASTRE project (ATR Spares Total Re-Engineering), it has selected Servigistics, the leading strategic service management solution provider, to manage the company’s global and worldwide service parts inventory. With Servigistics, ATR will improve its stock performance and reach more challenging performance objectives.

In the frame of its support activities, ATR provides two kinds of logistics services to its customers:

• Spare parts sales. ATR has three distribution centers in the world, in Paris-France, Miami-USA and Singapore, to be as close as possible to its customers (two other warehouses will open in New Delhi-India and in Auckland-New Zealand before the end of the year).

• Global Maintenance Agreement (GMA), service to facilitate day-by-day maintenance operations for airlines. This service is based upon spares enhanced availability, maintenance fixed prices, and simplicity through a single channel service. High flexibility is proposed to compose this package in order to cover and match Operators specific needs (based on each operator’s choice in terms of investment, local resources, aircraft fleet and expected utilization and on-site stock protection level).

Laurent BESOMBES, Vice-President Spares Support, explains: “ATR has the clear objective to reach excellent service levels. This is why we have implemented several distribution centers all over the world. Moreover, our GMA customers can select from a range of options to create a customized service that best suits their requirements. This offers great flexibility and value to our customers and requires an efficient stock system. Servigistics will be a key component of these developments as it will provide us with very sophisticated and proven solutions in terms of stock management.”

Kevin Tingey, Servigistics’ General Manager EMEA, adds: “ATR has enjoyed remarkable success in the aerospace industry in recent years, and rightly recognizes the need to offer customized services and achieve targeted service levels. Servigistics is delighted to deliver its expertise in the aerospace and defense industries to assist a recognized market leader. Our solution will enable ATR to achieve clearly-defined goals and drive even greater profitability from its service levels. We relish this challenge, and look forward to delivering results for the benefit of ATR and its customers.”

About ATR
Toulouse, Southern France-based regional aircraft manufacturer ATR is the world leader in the 50 to 74-seat turboprop market. ATR is an equal partnership between Alenia Aeronautica (Finmeccanica group) and EADS. ATR is certified ANSI/ISO/ASQ Q 9001:2000 and EN/AS/JISQ 9100, the worldwide quality standard in the field of aeronautics.

CONTACT:

Valerie Holpp
Servigistics
+1-404-933-9296
vholpp@servigistics.com