Exercising a second five-year option, the U.S. Navy has
extended its tire supply contract with Michelin.
The contract, which began in January of 2000, involves
supplying all of the Navy’s aviation tires around the world,
including deployed aircraft carriers.
“It’s an honor to have this opportunity to serve our men and
women in uniform,” says Brett Carnes, director of military
sales for the Michelin Aircraft Tire Co., Inc.
“Our goal is to make sure they have the support they need to
carry out their duties, both here and abroad,” he adds. “We
appreciate the indispensable help of our logistics partner
Lockheed Martin in carrying out this mission.”
Michelin’s management of the Navy’s tire performance-based
logistics (PBL) program has eliminated backorders, reduced the
Navy wholesale tire inventory and reduced retail allowances by
two-thirds, worth nearly $2 million, according to Carnes.
Michelin has also reduced logistics response times, resulting
in 99 percent on-time delivery anywhere in the world in four
days or less, he reports.
Michelin also has a similar contract with the Defense Logistics
Agency, known as the Aircraft Tire Privatization (ATPI), to
supply aircraft tires to the U.S. Air force, the U.S. Army and
several allied foreign militaries.
ATPI is about two and one-half times larger than the Navy’s
program in terms of tire volumes, says Carnes, and Michelin
still maintains a global on-time delivery rate of 98.7
percent.
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