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Global Aerospace Spare-Parts Distributor Gained Real-Time Visibility and Optimized Inventory Decisions with Snowflake

A long warehouse aisle lined with shelves of boxed spare parts

Industry

Aviation

Overview

This global aerospace spare-parts distributor supports airlines, MRO providers, and aviation partners, managing inventory across 10 international locations. As the business scaled, leadership needed a unified, real-time view of profitability, demand, and replenishment, with strong cost control and data governance built in.

Challenge

Business-critical data was scattered across ERP, inventory, sales, and supplier systems spanning 10 global locations, making it difficult for leadership to see the full picture. Key challenges included:

  • Business-critical data scattered across ERP, inventory, sales, and supplier systems across 10 global locations
  • Leadership lacked a single real-time view of profitability, regional performance, and inventory health
  • Reorder planning relied on delayed and inconsistent data, risking stockouts and overstocking
  • Manual, time-consuming reporting processes slowing executive decisions
  • Difficulty maintaining performance and cost predictability without a centralized analytics foundation

The Solution

Sigma Solve built a centralized Snowflake data platform that unified inventory, ERP, and supplier data into a single, governed source of truth.

Key initiatives included:

  • Unified Data Platform - Integrated ERP, inventory, and warehouse data into Snowflake via automated ETL pipelines.
  • Standardized Analytics Models - Applied dbt transformations to build consistent, analytics-ready business models across regions.
  • Governance and Performance Tuning - Implemented role-based security, cost optimized Snowflake warehouses, and performance-tuned queries.
  • Executive Dashboards - Delivered 8 executive-ready dashboards covering profitability, regional trends, reorder analysis, and supplier efficiency.
  • Automated Data Refresh - Established automated pipelines for near real-time insights.

Outcome

The unified Snowflake platform gave leadership near real-time visibility across every global location, sharper replenishment decisions, and dramatically faster executive reporting, all on a scalable, cost-optimized cloud foundation ready for multi-region growth.