The Supplier Excellence Alliance is comprised of aerospace, defense, and space primes/OEMs, major subcontractors, and suppliers working together to improve capabilities and ensure American competitiveness.

SEA Lean Enterprise System
The SEA Lean Enterprise System captures the best practices for manufacturing enterprise improvement with a model with three key focus areas. The reason for these three areas is to emphasize the importance of a total organizational approach to managing the transformation. Large-scale changes that do not address all three areas often fail. Implementations of lean that address all three take less effort and are more often successful. If lean manufacturing is proactive and preventive in nature, then this model for change is also proactive and preventive. It asks senior management to anticipate the cultural barriers to change and to organize a plan to address these barriers. It also asks management to build a workforce with the competencies to implement the lean system.

Baldrige Award-winning companies have distinguished themselves for years in financial performance by addressing improvement as an enterprise-wide process. They have continuously improved their leadership system, the competencies of their workforce, and processes throughout the enterprise. The SEA Lean Enterprise System follows these excellent examples by addressing all three areas as critical to successful implementation.