Aviation Intelligence: Why Dashboards Weren’t the Answer Why dashboards and lagging reports aren’t real intelligence — and what it takes for aviation to finally think in real time. Schedule your insider's look TL;DR Most “aviation intelligence” today lives in dashboards, automated (conditional) functions, and lagging reports - fine for summaries, but useless when decisions need to be made in the moment. Most don’t need trivia after the fact. They need intelligence embedded directly into the...
5 days ago • 4 min read
A Day in the RFQ Trenches Imagine this: It’s Tuesday morning. Your inbox pings with a new RFQ from a longtime airline client ... “urgent,” they say. The part number is barely legible, there’s no spec sheet, certificates are missing, and the timeline is tight. You and your team scramble: sourcing, validating, pricing, double-checking requirements. Somewhere along the way, things get missed, maybe trace, or a release, perhaps delivery dates. Meanwhile, a competitor sends a clean, compliant...
11 days ago • 8 min read
Nothing Like This Exists. Or Does It? TL;DR - Here’s What You’ll Learn Why the “normal” repair sourcing workflow is broken - seven steps, three roles, and hours wasted per part. The hidden math: how a 14-part Work Order can burn 12-20 hours of labor before a repair even starts. How ERP.Aero flips the script with Internal RFQs and sourcing visibility. The side-by-side impact: from 55-85 minutes per part down to 5-7 minutes, with higher accuracy and traceability. The Mirage of Efficiency Every...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Labor Day: More Than Just a Long Weekend A Three-Day Weekend, But Why? Labor Day always sneaks up on us. For many, it’s the last long weekend of summer — a chance to grill out, take that final beach trip, or simply enjoy a day off. It’s the marker that school is back, the pools are closing, and the season of work resumes in full. But behind the cookouts and retail sales, there’s a question that lingers: Do we really know why we celebrate Labor Day? It’s easy to treat it as a holiday of...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
The Story We Don’t Tell in Aviation Supply Aviation supply has always been about speed, certainty, and trust, but most of us are still flying half blind. Every day, suppliers process hundreds, sometimes thousands, of RFQs from marketplaces, email, and portals. Yet the systems that were supposed to streamline quoting and fulfillment are still stuck in 2005. I talk to teams drowning in inboxes every day, despite a six-figure solution in place. Certs get lost in shared drives. Inventory is...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
As airlines, MROs, OEMs, and suppliers gear up for the second half of 2025, many are rethinking how they manage aircraft parts data, reduce manual workflows, and align systems for faster, more profitable operations - with 2026 efficiency goals already in motion. Meet ERP.aero at ACPC 2025 in Atlanta – Booth 613 to see how aviation companies like yours are integrating operations, sales, and procurement into one connected platform. Here’s what we’re hearing from aviation leaders using ERP.aero:...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
In aviation parts sales, speed gets all the glory. RFQ turnaround time is a badge of honor: “We reply in 15 minutes.” “We can do 25.” “Never more than 40.” But here’s the quiet truth: speed without control is eating your profit alive. The Myth of the ‘Fast’ Quote Most “fast” quotes aren’t truly fast, they’re rushed. They look quick on the clock, but behind the scenes, they’re built on delays and chaos: RFQs land 60-120 minutes late because marketplace syncs or email parsing run elsewhere or...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
It’s a scenario that plays out far too often in MRO and repair shops: a critical component arrives, a repair order is opened, the team is ready to work — and then everything grinds to a halt. The culprit? The initial teardown report is nowhere to be found. This isn’t just an inconvenience. In aviation repair, a single missing document can trigger a ripple effect of costly delays and operational chaos, halting not just the repair but the entire project that depends on it. In the worst cases,...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
In the last few years, marketplaces exploded. Platforms multiplied. Emails piled up. Now, suppliers aren’t just quoting — they’re translating. One day it’s email RFQs. The next, a portal that makes you log in just to reply. Then another system scrapes your inbox, parses your quote, and sends it back to your ERP — hours later. Meanwhile, the system that’s supposed to run quoting? Still waiting. Disconnected. Blind. Behind. And in aviation, that kind of delay doesn’t just slow you down — it...
2 months ago • 3 min read
