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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Metrics for Sustaining Success in the Aerospace and Defense Industry

(TEMPE, Arizona) October 7, 2011— CAPS Research releases its Aerospace and Defense Industry Benchmarking Metric Report for 2011. This benchmark report contains key supply management performance measures on topics including organizational structure, financial information, and supplier relationships. New this year is a matrix that looks at what is included in each of the participating Aerospace and Defense companies' supply management operating expense as well as a deeper look at spend for direct and indirect goods. It is interesting to note that less than half of the participants (44%) reported they do not include in their supply management operating expense the costs related to IT infrastructure and desktop support and/or business systems.

This report establishes a composite standard or benchmarking comparison of supply management peer performance in the industry. To conduct this and all industry benchmarking studies, CAPS Research forms an Industry Advisory Committee of industry executives to determine the specific data to be collected. Three criteria are used: usefulness of the resultant benchmark, availability of needed data within the supply management organization, and comparability of data among companies.

The complimentary benchmarking report "Aerospace and Defense Industry Benchmarking Metric Report for 2011" is available on the CAPS Research public website www.capsresearch.org. First time visitors will be prompted to register to access the reports. For more information about this benchmarking report or other benchmarking reports, contact CAPS Research at metrics@capsresearch.org.

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Celebrating our 25th Anniversary, CAPS Research is a nonprofit research organization founded in 1986 to provide leading research to our strategic-minded corporate sponsors and to the public. Our mission is to work in partnership with a global network of executives and academics for the discovery and dissemination of strategic supply management knowledge and best practices. CAPS Research is jointly sponsored by the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, the Institute for Supply Management™, and Global 1000/Fortune 500-size organizations.

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Debbie Maciejewski
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CAPS Research
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Email: dmaciejewski@capsresearch.org

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