Case Study: Magellan Aerospace UK achieves reliable on-time delivery and capacity optimisation with Exel Computer Systems plc

EFACS Delivering Real Business Benefits

Magellan Aerospace UK is a £70m turnover, design-to-manufacture tier-one supplier of aerospace structural components operating across multiple UK sites. The business faced complex scheduling and supply-chain challenges — balancing load versus capacity, managing as many as 3,400 live works orders at a site, coping with machine failures and long multi-operation jobs, and ensuring consistent on-time delivery — and had relied on EFACS ERP from Exel Computer Systems plc to help coordinate operations.

Exel Computer Systems plc deployed EFACS across Magellan’s UK sites, integrating electronic supplier orders into a live MPS, automating shop-floor data and start-time tracking, and giving managers real-time visibility to prioritise, reschedule and control stock and sub-contract work. The result was improved reliability of despatches, faster exception response, better capacity utilisation and decision-making via “what-if” scenarios; EFACS now underpins Magellan’s growth and profitability and handles the company’s complex multi-site workload.

Magellan Aerospace UK

Eric Shelley

Business Information Systems Manager