IN Brief:
- Daher is expanding LeanDNA APEX across facilities in Europe, Morocco, and the United States.
- The platform will standardise supply chain execution across multiple SAP environments and manual reporting processes.
- Existing results include a 98% weekly proficiency rating at a Florida site and a 53% reduction in critical material shortages by one planner.
Daher is expanding its use of LeanDNA APEX across facilities in Europe, Morocco, and the United States, creating a unified supply chain execution model for its aerospace manufacturing and logistics operations.
The expanded partnership builds on a decade of work between Daher and LeanDNA at key facilities. APEX will be used to harmonise daily execution across sites, giving tactical buyers consistent workflows, shared KPIs, and a common operating language across multiple geographies.
Daher manages a complex global supply chain across aircraft manufacturing, industrial logistics, and production support. The company has been working to align multiple SAP systems and manual reporting processes, shifting supply chain teams from static spreadsheets towards more proactive execution.
Existing use has already produced measurable results. Daher’s Florida site, which has used LeanDNA for nearly 10 years, maintains a consistent 98% proficiency rating week over week. Dimitri Milot, a supply planner at Daher, used the platform’s insights to reduce critical material shortages by 53% in one month.
Michael Terry, supply chain director at Daher, said: “We utilize LeanDNA to master all of our purchasing functions and provide critical communications to our production control and warehouse teams. It allows the actual floor production to have a clear understanding of our actions and how we are bringing material in. For any leader focused on cost performance and team monitoring, LeanDNA is the essential tool.”
Andy Ellenthal, chief executive officer of LeanDNA, said: “Daher is a global leader in aerospace innovation, and their commitment to supply chain excellence is a model for the industry. By moving beyond static spreadsheets and fragmented ERP data, Daher is empowering its global workforce to speak a common language and execute with precision. We are honored to support their continued growth and operational resilience.”
Discrete manufacturing supply chains often struggle less with a shortage of data than with inconsistent execution. ERP systems hold transactions, but daily decisions around shortages, supplier responses, purchase order changes, warehouse priorities, and production communication are frequently managed through spreadsheets and local routines. Across multiple sites, those routines can become separate operating cultures.
Aerospace magnifies that problem. Components are highly specific, supplier networks are deep, quality rules are strict, and production schedules leave limited room for substitution. One shortage can affect purchasing, production control, warehouse staging, supplier escalation, and customer commitments. Standardised execution reduces the room for local interpretation when teams need to decide what to chase, what to expedite, and what to communicate to the factory floor.
Component availability remains a live pressure across industrial sectors. In electronics, Nexperia has reported resilience despite supply disruption, underlining how supplier performance and regional capacity continue to affect manufacturing planning. Daher’s APEX expansion operates inside that same environment, where supply risk cannot always be removed but can be managed with stronger visibility and clearer priorities.
Consistent KPIs are central to the rollout. Global manufacturing organisations often face comparable problems across plants while measuring them in different ways. One team may focus on overdue supplier commitments, another on shortage count, and another on inventory exposure. A shared platform allows management to separate local process gaps from structural supply constraints.
AI-enabled execution tools are also moving beyond broad forecasting. Forecasts remain useful, but many manufacturing problems emerge between the plan and the material that actually arrives. Platforms that connect inventory, procurement, supplier response, and production control give teams a better chance of resolving the gap before it reaches the line.
Daher’s expanded deployment gives its supply chain teams a common standard across three continents. In high-value manufacturing, that consistency is becoming part of the operating system behind production reliability, cost control, and customer delivery.
