The operational availability of military aircraft fleets depends heavily on the performance of the industrial supply chain, from initial production to the delivery of spare parts whenever and wherever they're needed.
Avoiding single points of failure and guaranteeing supply chain continuity call for meticulous analysis of large volumes of technical and logistics data from multiple sources.
Data science has come to play a decisive role in supply chain performance, helping to optimise procurement, avoid stock shortages, detect possible anomalies and improve contingency planning. Data science techniques make it easy to run comparative analyses or cross-reference supplier data (delivery times, minimum order quantities, etc.) with customer usage information (flight hours, aircraft on ground, etc.), providing crucial decision support for supply chain managers.
With Thales's Managed Supply Chain service for military aircraft support and sustainment, we harness the power of data science so that the armed forces and major players in the aerospace industry can meet the fleet readiness requirements of their users and customers in every situation.