What to do when there’s an industry-wide shortage?

• Long Tern Agreements & relationship intimacy (get in bed)
• Prepay for process capacity, schedule item detail later
• ITAR Waivers – allow offshore supply
• Repatriate offshore supply
• DPASS – jump to the head of the queue
• Invest in building capacity; at suppliers, set up new suppliers
• Lobby politicians
• Redesign product
• Reduce scrap in-house and at suppliers
• Supplier process improvements (to free up capacity)
• Supplier development (lean and six sigma)
• Stockpile now
• Go down a level in the suppliers BOM and buy up supply
• Create a Strategic Supply Czar – integrate and leverage