Business Synergies Soar with APICS Education

摘要

After the various mergers and acquisitions that created Collins Aerospace, the West Palm Beach, Fla.-based business unit of United Technologies Corporation (UTC) was challenged with realizing the synergies of the group's approximately 300 sites and 70,000 employees around the world. The sites represented a diverse range of corporate cultures, planning policies and practices, organizational structures, and tools and reports. To keep the $23 million aerospace and defense (A&D) company growing, leaders knew they had to standardize best practices and policies across the organization.