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Aerospace
Club 2000 (AC2K) is perhaps the largest 'community'
Portal in the World today, comprising over 1200 active
member companies located in Europe, North America
and Australia. It is a club community for the Aerospace
and Defence Industry, counting among its Sponsors
and members major Aerospace Industry companies, their
suppliers and service delivery companies. Click
here to see a history of how AC2k developed.
The
member companies vary in size from small private companies
to large global Corporates; all having a common goal
of growth and improving profit through efficiency
and effectiveness.
AC2K brings the Industry together for mutual benefit,
by providing sponsors and members with a full electronic
managed service, delivered over the Internet, which
provides the capability to communicate in a timely
manner about specific and vital issues. These issues
may relate only to a single Sponsor and his suppliers,
or they may be Industry wide affecting all members.
Through forums, the provision of education and news
services, and through the delivery of tools, managed
services, and specific industry applications, AC2K
enables the members to develop relevant and commercially
advantageous relationships, and to share experiences.
Focused on supply chain relationships, AC2K is quickly
developing into the Internet 'glue' that unites this
global Industry, enabling it to improve competitiveness,
through structured and managed communication. The
AC2k mission statement is:
"To
facilitate the timely exchange and transfer of knowledge
throughout the Aerospace and Defence Industry, supported
by applications, managed services, content and offers,
to help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of
both the sponsors and members of the global community."
The
content of the Portal today includes:
- News
- Connection
to Industry Bodies Library Services.
- Trade
Publications.
- General
Information and Services.
- Sponsor
Areas.
- Special
Offers.
- Products
- Forums.
Over the next few months additional services will
be introduced, that will include:
- Diary
Services
- Best
Practice.
- Secure
Document Exchange.
- Web
Conferencing.
- E-Mail
Collaboration.
-
Access to buying clubs / Exchanges.
- E-Business
services.
- Web
design / Hosting Services.
These will be driven by Membership requirements.
AC2K is also developing other vital applications
that will be made available by Sponsors to their
own Supply Chains. These applications include:
- Vendor
Scheduling
- COSHH
(Health & Safety in the aerospace industry)
- Offset
& Counter Trade
- BAE
Systems Virtual University
- Supplier
Excellence Programme
- ACE
- Achieving Customer Excellence
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