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...

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,...

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...