I had the pleasure of having a great discussion around Tips, Tricks, and Pitfalls Sourcing Parts with Nathan Winkle, Lee Brewster, and Andy Nixon, June 8, 2020. We discussed ghost inventory, traceability, modernization of the part purchasing process and much more. The team had some great insight and questions about how things are and how things could be.

The MRO market is taking advantage of the current down time of the world’s commercial fleets to address delayed or deferred maintenance. Parts sellers need to move costly inventory quickly. AeroParts Now is bringing the two together virtually in ways that help the world’s aviation business.

We run into business leaders that are some of the most intelligent and successful in their fields but who fail to see how technology and innovation is changing the world, and specifically, how their industry is changing. I sat in a meeting with one of the world’s largest airlines at their parts warehouse with 10 of their team members and a senior sales executive. The executive said, “People won’t buy aircraft parts online. Not in my lifetime.” This sentiment is prolific in the aircraft parts trading and selling segment of aerospace.