How Air Nostrum Scaled Procurement Efficiency with AI and Automated Workflows

Operating as an independent regional carrier for Iberia Regional, Air Nostrum manages a fast-paced regional fleet requiring high dispatch reliability. Sourcing aircraft parts, particularly hard-to-find components, traditionally presents operational difficulties:

• Manual RFP processes slow down purchasing workflows and delay part sourcing.
• Finding reliable, hard-to-find parts while ensuring competitive pricing across diverse supplier bases is time-intensive.
• Manual matching against historic PO data creates inefficiencies in evaluating fair market value and supplier options.

Air Nostrum recognized the need to digitize and automate its procurement ecosystem to build a faster, more cost-effective supply chain.

The Solution: Data-driven intelligence & Automated Workflows

Air Nostrum partnered with SkySelect to modernize its purchasing operations and drive savings. SkySelect implemented an automated, data-driven procurement platform designed to minimize manual overhead and optimize material purchasing decisions:

• Automated Workflows: Streamlined the journey from initial requisition to quote selection and order issuance.
• Enhanced Supplier Engagement: Expanded supplier outreach automatically to drive competitive bidding, even for hard-to-locate components.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Leveraged historical PO tracking and pricing intelligence to rapidly identify cost-saving opportunities and evaluate viable supplier quotes.

The Payoff: Faster Speeds & Greater Savings

• Accelerated Turnaround Times: Dramatically compressed the RFQ-to-quote-selection cycle to under a day, keeping maintenance schedules on track and minimizing aircraft ground time.
• Captured Hard Dollar Savings: Consistently unlocked direct price savings on awarded parts while surfacing significant potential savings across all evaluated quotes.
• Strengthened Supplier Engagement: Driven high supplier participation to secure viable, competitive quotes, even for complex and hard-to-find components.
• Data-Driven Sourcing: Leveraged historical PO tracking across line items to give buyers instant pricing context and faster decision-making capability.

Conclusion

By integrating SkySelect’s automated procurement platform, Air Nostrum transformed its parts sourcing from a manual process into an agile, data-backed operation. This partnership shows how regional airlines can simplify their procurement, bring more suppliers on board, and consistently save money without sacrificing speed or reliability.