Princeps speeds up engagement with Tier 1–3 Defence and Aerospace organisations

Using JOSCAR to demonstrate robust quality, compliance and traceability while simplifying supplier assurance.

Who are Princeps?

Princeps is a UK based AS9120, AS6081, ISO17025 accredited SME, distributing components supporting aerospace, defence, rail, medical and other high reliability industries. other high reliability industries. Princeps are celebrating their 20th Year trading this year, established in 2006.

Operating from their facility in Essex, they specialise in providing customer focused programmes that address counterfeit risk mitigation and quality assurance.

What differentiates Princeps is their strong technical capabilities, robust processes and customer first approach- helping organisations manage component risk, product lifecycle risks and supply chain disruption.

They pride themselves on being dynamic, responsive, transparent and aligned to the expectations of critical programmes. They are proud to announce that they have now acquired ISO17025 covering AS6171 and test methods 2A,3,4 and 5 to further strengthen their capabilities.

Before joining JOSCAR, Princeps often faced repetitive and time-consuming customer onboarding and supplier approval processes

Defence and aerospace organisations require strong evidence of quality systems, compliance and operational capability. This was often achieved by multiple questionnaires and audits, each with different formats and requirements. This created unnecessary administrative workload and risked slowing down new customer engagement, particularly in cased when they were responding to urgent procurement requirements.

For a business operating in high-reliability sectors, the challenge was significant: delays or inconsistencies in the supplier assurance response process could impact their credibility, reduce their competitiveness and slow access to opportunities.

JOSCAR provided Princeps with a recognised platform to centralise and maintain their supplier assurance information

Instead of responding to multiple customer questionnaires, they can manage one set of validated company information that can be shared with multiple companies across the Defence supply chain. This helps improve data accuracy, strengthens transparency and ensures that their quality updates are consistently accessible to customers.

Princeps stated that JOSCAR also supports quicker engagement with Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 organisations by demonstrating readiness to do business, reducing friction in onboarding and helping support faster progression from enquiries to approved status.

How Princeps have benefited

Centrally managed assurance profile

Reduces duplication and avoids repeated questionnaires for multiple customers.

Improves credibility and readiness

Demonstrates compliance and capability to Defence primes and key supply chain partners.

Strengthens visibility and communication

Enables efficient sharing of any news and updates and supports confidence across our customers.

"Having the ability to share all your quality updates with Tier 1’s, Tier 2’s and Tier 3’s all in one place, whilst being able to access updates and events is invaluable for us. We find the platform helpful and time saving and we would absolutely recommend it to other suppliers.”

David Nash,
Sales Director,
Princeps

The Hellios customer support team provided guidance throughout the onboarding process and during questionnaire completion

"Support was responsive, clear and professional, helping us understand requirements and ensure our submissions were accurate and aligned to what customers expect within the JOSCAR community. When questions arose regarding specific areas, the support team helped us efficiently, reducing delays and ensuring the process remained straightforward."

David Nash,
Sales Director,
Princeps

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