Aerospace & Defense
With order books measured in years, an aerospace supplier is judged on whether each delivery lands on the date and at the cost it promised. The evidence sits across the ERP, customer portals, quality records and program spreadsheets, and the monthly program review often opens with a debate about which figure is right. We connect those records so schedule, cost and supplier performance are reported from one source. We work on civil supply chains and unclassified commercial data, and have not yet published an engagement in this sector.
Discuss this with usMarket context
Commercial aircraft manufacturers delivered 903 aircraft in the first eight months of 2026, 9% more than in the same period of 2025.
Source: ADS Group, Over 900 aircraft deliveries made so far in 2026, 25 September 2026
ADS put the commercial aircraft backlog at 17,010 orders in September 2026, equivalent to over 12 years' work for the UK aerospace supply chain at current production rates.
Source: ADS Group, Over 900 aircraft deliveries made so far in 2026, 25 September 2026
Schedule and cost changes on large programs pass down several supplier tiers, and lower-tier suppliers often learn of a change only when a revised purchase order arrives.
Business challenges
01
Program reports rebuilt every month
Milestone status, earned value and cost to complete are often assembled from ERP exports and program spreadsheets. When the build takes a week, the review discusses a position that is already out of date.
02
Supplier performance measured differently by each buyer
On-time delivery and quality escapes are calculated per customer portal and per internal team, so one supplier can carry three different scores for the same parts.
03
Cost changes absorbed without a claim
Engineering changes, expedite charges and material price movements flow down the supply chain. Without a record linking each change to the order it affected, the cost is absorbed and never recovered.
04
Rate increases planned on optimistic capacity
Production rate commitments are made against capacity figures that assume full staffing and on-time parts. Shortfalls show up as late deliveries before anyone revises the plan.
Where the opportunity sits
One program dataset
Joining milestones, costs, purchase orders and deliveries in one model lets the monthly program report refresh from source, with every figure traceable to the record behind it.
Supplier scorecards with fixed definitions
Defining on-time delivery, quality escape and lead time once, and calculating them the same way for every supplier, gives procurement a scorecard whose method nobody needs to argue about.
A register of changes and recoveries
Logging each engineering change, expedite and price movement against its order, with the evidence attached, shows what can be claimed and what has been recovered.
How we approach it
We start read-only with the commercial and program records: the ERP, purchase orders and delivery history, customer portal exports, program schedules and cost reports. We trace one part number or work package from order to delivery to invoice, and note where dates or costs are changed by hand. Findings become a prioritized task list, each item with an owner and an acceptance check. If the client wants us to build, the same team delivers the data connections, supplier scorecards and program reports, documented and left in the client's own environment. We work only with unclassified commercial data. Airworthiness, design approval, quality system certification, export control and any classified or security-cleared work are outside our scope.
How our experience is evidenced
No anonymised engagement in aerospace or defense is published. This page describes our approach and the capabilities we would apply to civil supply chains, program reporting and supplier performance, as we use them in other sectors. We hold no security clearances and do not take on classified work.
Questions executives ask
Do you work on defense programs?
Only on unclassified commercial and supply chain data, such as supplier delivery performance, purchase orders and program cost reporting. We hold no security clearances, do not handle classified material and do not advise on export control.
Have you worked with aerospace suppliers?
We have not published an anonymised engagement in this sector. A proposal would state which parts of the work we have done in other sectors and which would be new.
Can you help us with AS9100 or airworthiness approvals?
No. Quality system certification, airworthiness and design approval belong to accredited bodies and your quality and engineering teams. If you want overdue corrective actions or escape rates in the same view as delivery and cost, we can report on the data those systems already produce.
Will our data leave our environment?
Where possible, pipelines and reports are built in your own accounts. Access levels, data location and any customer contract restrictions on sharing are agreed in writing before work starts.
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