Nominations Now Open for Supplier Excellence Alliance SEA 2008 Aerospace Defense Supply Chain Awards

The Supplier Excellence Alliance (SEA) announced the nomination process is now open for the 2nd Annual SEA Aerospace & Defense Supply Chain Awards.

The SEA Aerospace & Defense Supply Chain Awards are open to all aerospace and defense supplier organizations, whether or not they are a SEA member company. The Awards process is designed to recognize the best of the best suppliers and highlight best practices leading to outstanding business performance. Award categories include:

- SEA Leadership & Culture Award

- SEA Workforce Development Award

- SEA Operational Excellence Award

- SEA Supply Chain Innovation Award

- SEA Customer of the Year Award

- SEA Richard Hall Award for Leadership Excellence

Award recipients will be determine by a panel of independent judges who will use the SEA Roadmap Criteria to evaluate supplier Applications. The SEA Roadmap is the process standard for four critical areas of a supplier's organization: Leadership & Culture, Workforce Development, Operational Excellence, and Business Results.

Awards will be announced at the Awards Gala to be held November 12, 2008 at the Hyatt Grand Champions Resort & Spa in Indian Wells, California (Palm Springs area).

For an overview of each award category and to download a Nomination Form, please go to http://www.seaonline.org/Awards/.

About SEA...

SEA is a non-profit alliance of industry prime and tier-one contractors and leading sub-tier production suppliers. SEA is transforming the global supply chain by improving supply chain performance, expanding supplier capabilities and providing a platform for collaboration to produce breakthrough, integrated supply chain solutions.

Prime empowered and supplier led, SEA member companies represented on its board of directors include The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, United Technologies, Inc, Parker Aerospace, Rockwell Collins, Cessna Aircraft Company, Honeywell Aerospace, Hitco Carbon Composites, Dresser-Rand, Roberts Tool Company, Cristek Interconnects, Photo Etch Company, Bodycote Thermal Processing, and DRS Technologies.

SEA sponsors include Mori Seiki, USA, Inc., Kennametal, Inc. and Haas TCM. SEA partners and alliances include Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG), National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC), California Council for Excellence, California Employment Training Panel, California Space Authority, UAW-Labor Employment and Training Corporation, and ASG Renaissance.

To learn more, visit the SEA website at www.seaonline.org. For additional SEA news click on the News and Press tab http://www.seaonline.org/AboutSEA/news/index.htm.




Nominations Now Open for Supplier Excellence Alliance SEA 2008 Aerospace Defense Supply Chain Awards



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