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

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Customer Background

A global aerospace spare-parts distributor supports airlines, MRO providers, and aviation partners with critical inventory across multiple regions. Operating in a highly regulated, time-sensitive industry, the business manages complex inventory, sales, and supplier data across ten international locations.

As operations scaled globally, leadership needed a unified, real-time view of business performance for covering profitability, regional demand, and replenishment planning. This also needed to maintain strict cost control and data governance.

Industry

Logistics

Challenges

The distributor faced fragmented data systems and limited visibility, making it difficult to operate efficiently and make timely, data-driven decisions.

  • Business-critical data was scattered across ERP, inventory, sales, and supplier systems in ten global locations.
  • Leadership lacked a single, real-time view of profitability, regional performance, and inventory health.
  • Reorder planning relied on delayed or inconsistent data, increasing the risk of stockouts or overstocking.
  • Reporting processes were manual and time-consuming, slowing executive decision-making.
  • Performance and cost predictability were difficult to maintain without a centralized analytics foundation.

The Solution

Sigma Solve designed and implemented a Snowflake-powered business intelligence platform to unify data, accelerate insights, and enable confident decision-making at scale.

  • Integrated ERP, inventory, and warehouse data into Snowflake using automated ETL pipelines.
  • Applied dbt transformations to create standardized, analytics-ready business models across regions.
  • Implemented role-based security, cost-optimized Snowflake warehouses, and performance-tuned queries.
  • Delivered eight executive-ready dashboards covering profitability, regional trends, reorder analysis, and supplier efficiency.
  • Established automated data refresh pipelines to ensure consistent, near real-time insights.

The Outcome

With a centralized Snowflake analytics platform, the distributor transformed how it manages inventory, suppliers, and global performance.

Achieved near real-time visibility across all global operations and locations.

Improved replenishment planning and supplier decisions through reliable, unified data.

Reduced decision-making cycles with instant access to executive dashboards.

Ensured predictable analytics performance and cost control through optimized Snowflake usage.

Built a scalable, future-ready data foundation to support global growth and operational efficiency.

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