Hi, If you work in aviation supply or MRO, chances are your day doesn’t start with strategy. It starts with survival. You open your inbox to 300, 400, sometimes 500+ emails. RFQs, newsletters, spam, vendor quotes, internal threads, forwarded PDFs. You scroll. You search. You download. You try to remember which buyer asked for which part yesterday. Some quotes go out on time. Some slip to tomorrow. Some never get answered at all. Not because your team doesn’t care. But because the “system”...
11 days ago • 1 min read
When a Simple Interview Turns Into a Reflection Moment Every once in a while, something small makes you pause - and reminds you how far things have come. A little while ago, I got an email from Shauli Zacks, content editor at SafetyDetectives, asking if I’d be open to a short interview about ERP.aero, how it started, what we’ve learned, and where aviation tech is heading. It wasn’t a big production. Just six thoughtful questions. But somewhere between the first draft and the final edit, it...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
The Hidden Cost of Clarity TL;DR True clarity doesn’t come from control, it comes from architecture. The moment you stop chasing visibility through effort and start engineering it through systems, everything changes. You’ll see your inefficiencies, your blind spots, and your truth - but that’s the point. Because real clarity doesn’t confirm comfort. It creates alignment. The Illusion of Control In aviation, we like to believe control equals clarity. The more we see, the more we manage. But...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Why AI Isn’t Replacing Us Anytime Soon ↓ TL;DR – Here’s the story I’m unpacking: I read about these numbers in an email I got today and decided to dig deeper. The more I researched, the more interesting the picture became. So I’m sharing what I found here - not as hype, but as a snapshot of where AI adoption really stands right now, and why the story isn’t as simple as “it’s taking over everything." Big companies are already hitting the brakes on AI. For the first time, adoption among large...
2 months ago • 6 min read
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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago • 6 min read
