Leonardo to overhaul supply chain with new partnership model

Called LEAP2020 – which stands for Leonardo Empowering Advanced Partnerships – the programme is aimed at delivering "growth of Leonardo's supply chain in terms of both scale and quality", the company says. The initiative will establish a "new model" for relationships with suppliers under which partners will be "sharing future challenges and opportunities", it states. For its own business, the programme will deliver "important cost savings and streamline [Leonardo's] purchasing activity", while the group's quality and on-time delivery performance are also to be improved. Leonardo says the effort will generate "benefits in the short term", and deliver, by 2020, "larger gains, in some cases in the region of 20% improvements in deliveries and quality".