Case Study: Major Aircraft Manufacturer achieves multi-billion-dollar cash and EBIT impact with AlixPartners

Major Aircraft Manufacturer - Customer Case Study

Major Aircraft Manufacturer was facing severe financial pressure from underperforming new aircraft programs, deteriorating cash, negative EBIT, and mounting customer dissatisfaction caused by delays and execution problems. With a fragmented supplier base, slow decision-making, and a lack of lean manufacturing capabilities, the company launched a three-year performance improvement program and brought in AlixPartners to help turn things around.

AlixPartners used its QuickStrike® diagnostic to rapidly reassess the program and recommended major changes, including shifting leadership to the COO, focusing on execution, creating urgency, and driving short-term wins. Working alongside management, AlixPartners helped rebuild the program around savings, senior leadership accountability, and close tracking of progress, delivering the company’s four-year EBIT and cash targets in just three years, restoring pricing discipline, and generating multi-billion-dollar cash and EBIT impact.