You Need This To Select Your Next Repair Station

You Need This To Select Your Next Repair Station

Honesty and trust. It sounds so simple, but it rather complicated, especially if it’s a new relationship. If you can work with a repair partner who’s honest and you build a trust-based relationship, this can save you a lot of frustration. Here are three ways you can screen your repair partner and determine if they’re honest.  



Selecting a Repair Partner 101: An Intro to Everything You Need to Know

Selecting a Repair Partner 101: An Intro to Everything You Need to Know

Do you dread sourcing and processing your aircraft part repairs? You have hundreds of options, but you may have been tricked into sending your parts in for repair only to find out the repair partner was unreliable. In this short video, I’ll introduce you to the series in which I’m going to teach you exactly what to look for when selecting your next repair partner.

What A Shortage In Supply Chain Professionals Means For You

What A Shortage In Supply Chain Professionals Means For You

Maintenance supply chain teams all over the world have a problem. For every graduate with supply chain “skills,” there are six positions to be filled. And it’s only going to get worse. It’s expected to increase to nine to one soon. If you rely on purchasing high-value or large volumes of anything, this is a troubling statistic.

Why Used Parts Scarcity Will Negatively Impact Your Operation

Why Used Parts Scarcity Will Negatively Impact Your Operation

What’s one thing that will save you millions of dollars and months of your time?

Used Serviceable Material (USM).

Without them, you’d throw good money after bad, chase long, complicated lead times and get little OEM support, especially for older aircraft models.

That’s why this post is so crucial for you to read.

It’s a trend that has no foreseeable end, unless particular things happen within the aviation industry, of which, none exist.

The trend is, used serviceable parts are becoming more expensive and scarce.

3 Essential Tactics to Optimize Your APU Inventory

3 Essential Tactics to Optimize Your APU Inventory

Inventory is costly.

If you don’t have the back-end support you need, you’ll want to keep inventory on hand. It’s part of doing business. It’s your risk mitigation.

But if you do have the support you need, then inventory just becomes a burden. It’s also costly. You could have millions of dollars tied up in inventory that isn’t producing revenue for you.

What if you have multiple APUs in stock?  Worse, what if you have more than you need?

9 Things You Need to Know About APU Quality Before You Purchase

9 Things You Need to Know About APU Quality Before You Purchase

You can’t purchase an APU without knowing the quality and still expect good results. Quality needs to be discussed and evaluated before you purchase.

There are a lot of aspects to quality, and they dictate everything from how much you spend to how long your lead times are…and how much stress you add to your workday.

5 Simple Hacks To Reduce Your Total APU Cost

5 Simple Hacks To Reduce Your Total APU Cost

A failure to properly purchase your APU can cost you thousands of dollars and hours of your time.

Between the financials, the POs, the chasing, the follow-up and all of the small details, there’s a lot to processing your APU purchases.

So what’s the best way to process your next APU?

An Easy Way to Source Your Next APU Without Leaving Money On The Table

An Easy Way to Source Your Next APU Without Leaving Money On The Table

Part number. Search. Mass RFQ. Repeat. By following this method, you’re leaving time and money on the table. Once you implement a few simple tips, you’ll streamline your APU sourcing process, making it more efficient, because at the end of the day you care about results.

How You Can Save Time And Money Using These Five Maintenance Check Kits

How You Can Save Time And Money Using These Five Maintenance Check Kits

There’s a secret to keeping your sanity when dealing with maintenance issues.

Ready for it?

Maintenance kits! Typically, the maintenance process looks something like this:

We need 3 c-checks completed. It’s a mad dash through crazy land to get it done (remember that thing about sanity?).

From us to our clients and everyone in between, there was a mass scramble to have the right parts in the right place at the right time.

Everything… and I mean everything… was handled at the very last minute.

The ironic thing is that almost all of this scramble could have been avoided with some foresight in planning and a pre-draw kit.

3 Simple Ways You Can Resolve Aircraft Hydraulic Issues Using Your Supply Chain

3 Simple Ways You Can Resolve Aircraft Hydraulic Issues Using Your Supply Chain

Hydraulic leaks disrupt an operation. The words AOG screech everyone into a panic. A frenzy.

Maintenance and engineering teams are the best to fix these issues in the field, but with a little bit of planning, your trusted material supply chain can help offset these risks.

In this video, we tackle three incredibly simple strategies to help further reduce your risk of hydraulic issues, in the field.

If you want to explore the hydraulic leak fly-away-kit, check them out right here.