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An insight into international customer requirements with Rolls-Royce and the MAA

MAA offices, Coventry


09:00 - 16:30

MAA offices

Coventry

 

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Join Dr Andrew Mair, chief executive of the Midlands Aerospace Alliance and Rolls-Royce for this unique opportunity to gain an insight into international customer requirements and how they impact may impact onto your business strategy.

 

The aim of this TransNetAero* workshop is help the supply chain understand international customer requirements:

  • Find out what international aerospace customers really need

  • Promote your company internationally

  • Learn what your customer needs to hear, not only what you would like to tell them

  • Get feedback on how you present your company

  • Benchmark and learn from your peers

  • Learn to adapt your company's business strategy 

 

This event is set up for European (including UK) SME suppliers to the aerospace industry with an interest in:

  • Latest supplier requirements from major aerospace customers

  • Participating in a European networking event to promote their company

  • Learning to adapt your message to communicate more effectively with your customer

  • Creating a plan to meet new requirements

  • Benchmarking yourself against companies from the UK and Europe

This TransNetAero event is held at the MAA offices in Coventry. The event is organised by the Midlands Aerospace Alliance.

Participation in this event is free of charge, thanks to the support of the EU Interreg programme; participants will be responsible for their own travel to Coventry UK and accommodation.


Who will you meet?

This event held at the heart of the UK Midlands aerospace cluster where the MAA will introduce you to the Head of Supplier Collaboration for Component Engineering at Rolls-Royce and provide an insight into customer requirements from Rolls-Royce as well as those from across Europe.

 

Agenda

Morning

09:00 Arrival and coffee

Introduction to TransNetAero by Dr Andrew Mair MAA Chief Executive

Presentation on Rolls-Royce's requirements and future direction by Paul Snelling, Head of Supplier Collaboration for Component Engineering, Rolls-Royce

First half of attendee's presentations - 5 min max presentation from each attendee on why potential customers should do business with them

Coffee break

Second half of attendee's presentations - 5 min max presentation from each attendee on why potential customers should do business with them

Lunch and networking

Afternoon

Feedback on presentation by Paul Snelling on how improve their offer and guidance on avenues to build awareness of their competencies.

Presentation on European customer requirements (TBC)

Round table discussion on how to adapt using this knowledge

Strategy implementation model - Hoshin Kanri framework and how it can be used to implement the knowledge gained within the attendees''s business

16:30 End of meeting

 

Arrangements for travel/hotels

Participation in this event is free of charge, thanks to the support of the EU Interreg programme.

Participants will be responsible for arranging and paying for their own travel to Coventry 

 

* What is TransNetAero?

TransNetAero (Transnational Network for Aerospace) is a network of organisations in six European aerospace regions and small countries which are going to work together and share their resources so that aerospace industry suppliers in each of them can get expert support and knowledge from the others to help them be better prepared to succeed against global scale competition. The participants are Wallonia (Belgium), Normandy (France), Baden-Württemberg (Germany), the Netherlands, Switzerland and the Midlands (United Kingdom). For more about the TransNetAero project, click here.



Places now full!

We plan on running a similar event in the near future.