Jena-Optronik GmbH - Dominik Klose
- Paper number
IAC-22,E3,6,4,x73681
- Author
Mr. Dominik Klose, Germany, Jena-Optronik GmbH
- Coauthor
Dr. Reinhard Berger, Germany, Jena-Optronik GmbH
- Year
2022
- Abstract
Customer commercial – recurring products - New ways of working: less and shorter meetings and reviews mainly digitally, very limited onsite meetings, delegation of inspections or virtual conduction of inspections using photo & video - Force majeure contract adaptations e.g. relaxations on delivery schedule & related penalties. Customer ESA – development contracts - Significantly shortened payment process supported short-term liquidity - ESA audited and confirmed, but not yet covered, the extra cost impacting P&L and therefore investment decisions e.g. in R&D and CAPEX are still pending due to strict cost containment measures - New ways of working: delegation of inspections and shorter meetings and reviews mainly digitally, very limited onsite meetings; but on lower level compared to commercial customers Suppliers - Research institutes, which are key suppliers in ESA development projects, implemented a stricter access and shot-down policy than commercial suppliers, impacting schedules and therefore cost on subprime and prime levels. - Other suppliers were similarly impacted as JOP e.g. by lock-downs, travel restrictions, as well as social distance measures and quarantines policies. Hardware delivery schedules impacted (partly heavily) as these activities cannot be performed in home office. - New ways of working: Delegation of inspections and shorter meetings and reviews mainly digitally, very limited onsite meetings - Anyhow additional effort @ JOP for increased supplier monitoring and schedule tracking & management during pandemic JOP - Due to lock-downs, travel restrictions, as well as social distance measures and quarantines policies new ways of working had to be set-up and implemented, resulted in additional effort and short term higher non-productive hours. - Covid has been an accelerator of change in digitalization, remote working, etc. - JOP indirectly benefited from US government support to US space industry (e.g. accelerated C-Band satellite procurement). Therefore, a business volume impact and e.g. partial employment measures could be prevented. - Further fostering a long-lead and advanced stock procurement strategy for recurring products prevented major gaps in supply chain during Covid, but additional impacts resulting from EEE market shortage & Ukraine war are stressing the situation now to its limit
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