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In today's rapidly evolving aviation landscape, the call for greater efficiency and innovation is louder than ever. However, despite the clear advantages, airlines consistently face a formidable barrier: budget limitations.

Executives face the constant pressure of optimizing operations and bolstering the bottom line. The key to navigating this complex landscape of aviation lies in strategically prioritizing initiatives that deliver maximum impact.

Mature Your Supply Chain Through Smart Use of Data, Analytics, and AI-Powered Automation

If your sourcing strategy still leans on a handful of familiar suppliers, you're exposed. Tariffs on foreign parts, materials, and components are increasing procurement costs and delivery times — threatening both margins and uptime.

SkySelect’s availability matrix enables you to tailor your procurement approach based on two critical factors: lead time and the number of suppliers.

Inc.’s eighth annual Female Founders list highlights the nation’s top business leaders who challenge the status quo to tackle some of the world’s biggest problems.

SkySelect is exhibiting at the MRO Americas Conference in Atlanta on April 8-10, 2025.

In aviation, purchasing volumes can grow exponentially, and buying one part at a time while trying to find the best price quickly becomes unmanageable.

This new feature empowers suppliers with valuable insights to improve operations, enhance customer relationships, and drive growth.

In this insightful session, our panel revealed powerful strategies and inspiring examples of how suppliers can thrive by leveraging the SkySelect platform.

Shipment consolidation is one of the most effective ways to reduce the environmental impact of aircraft parts logistics.

New clients mean increased demand and the potential to unlock new revenue opportunities. 

This new integration with Ambry Hill’s VistaQuote product provides suppliers new opportunities to be more efficient and additional capabilities to maximize demand.

According to our research, sourcing across broad market supplier participants (top-tier and long-tail) yields better on-time performance and savings metrics.

As AI adoption increases in aviation, airlines and MROs are flocking to SkySelect to become more efficient, save money and reduce purchasing cycle times.

Turnaround management could be the remedy for airlines and MROs with rising costs and increasing obstacles piling up for their procurement departments.

Avianca aims to digitize its operations and bring automation to its procurement processes by leveraging AI-powered technology.

This milestone comes on the heels of an exciting 12 months for the organization, which saw $1.5 billion in transactions in that timeframe, thanks to onboarding several airlines, MROs and suppliers across the globe.

The integration of AvSight’s advanced ERP platform and SkySelect’s automated procurement capabilities provides substantial gains in operational efficiency.

Automatically see where each part stands in terms of price, response time, and lead time.

Technology, specifically AI and automation will play a pivotal role in 2024, as the industry positions itself to overcome major challenges.

The traditional process of procuring spare parts for aircraft leads to excessive costs, manual work overload and constraints including locking up valuable capital of airlines, but there is a better way forward thanks to technology.

As MROs are faced with a resource crunch and an ever-changing supply chain while trying to support customers efficiently and cost-effectively, they are increasingly turning to new tools and processes to transform their organizations.

There’s been a lot of discourse about how technology such as AI will take away jobs. But, what if it can actually have the opposite effect?

Although more difficult than ever, when deployed accurately, forecasting has the potential to dispel many of the industry’s challenges.

A big part of aircraft parts procurement is the aftermarket. And technology can help this area of the business evolve.

The aviation industry presents more opportunities than ever before for women, but further measures need to be taken to ensure more female leaders.

We're continuing to add new features inside the SkySelect platform to save suppliers time and increase revenue.

On average, airlines face part delays of 60-90 days. Even routine parts are experiencing significant delays leading to AOG and Urgent situations. Let's learn how we can alleviate this snowballing problem.

The aviation industry is enduring challenging times but is also presented with tremendous possibilities to create a positive change.

Now is the perfect time to improve your on-time delivery.

Supply chain challenges such as raw material, manpower, and logistics forced us to adopt new risk management practices, such as increasing the inventory of critical components.

In aviation, we have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.

Leveling the playing field and reshaping the future of the aviation industry.

Part 2: Growth Opportunities & Leveraging Technology

Part 1: Key Challenges and Market Drivers in the MRO Supply Chain

The MRO supply chain is offline, slow, opaque, expensive, and inefficient. Recent events such as Covid, economic sanctions, re-routing, and no-fly zones have only confounded supply chain disruptions and further illustrated the need for change.

Aircraft material purchasers have always found it challenging to match the right supplier with the right part requirements. Historically the process has always been done using manual procedures, which rely on the expertise and bandwidth of employees.

We find ourselves marked in an era rife with air travel demand shock, supply chain inefficiencies, an ever-changing workforce, and soaring costs due to inflation.

Watch on-demand how procurement managers can get out of firefighting and start taking a more strategic approach.

If you’ve even been remotely following current events, it’s no news that the global supply chain is under immense pressure and facing a multitude of problems. This, of course, extends into aviation, which has been hit particularly hard over the last few years, given the social, economic, and general state of the world.

The aircraft parts purchasing market is complex, filled with processes, constraints, and challenges both internally within airlines, MROs, and with suppliers.

Watch on demand: How to effectively leverage technology in MRO Supply Chain

Supply chains all around the world are broken and becoming further disrupted. No industry remains unscathed, including aviation. Specifically, the process of buying aircraft parts has become increasingly complex and riddled with a number of obstacles.

A huge opportunity exists to leverage the availability of new and aftermarket parts

New automation tools, AI and workflows are replacing manual processes, making it possible to run more efficient and cost-effective aircraft maintenance.