To keep your team on track during supply chain delays in aerospace engineering, reallocate resources to focus on tasks that don't depend on delayed materials. Maintain open communication with suppliers to anticipate timelines, and keep your team informed of updates. Adjust project timelines, prioritize critical path tasks, and explore alternative suppliers or temporary solutions if feasible. Encourage flexibility and collaboration to ensure productivity while minimizing the impact of delays.

What I found helpful is to plan the work earlier than expected and put a track with steady achievement dates to make sure parts are available on time, more also auditing the supplier and making sure he is capable to handle the supply demand is key to prevent any work stoppage.

A Good team leader can make the flow of work possible by his good planning and skills and TAT to reduce by good supply chain and skills team

Most organisations have a quality control system for suppliers in place. This typically include some kind of test piece that you can evaluate them on. And that takes time and can make it difficult to change supplier. The solution to that is to make sure that you always have at least two suppliers in place for the same part, and that you regularly work with both of them. This will allow you flexibility of one falls behind. Also foster flexibility in your team and make sure that you have redundancy, allowing team members to step into each others roles for support when needed.

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