Boeing and Airbus Fly a Similar Route
David C. Wyld is the Mayfield Professor of Management and is the Director of Strategic e-Commerce Initiative at Southeastern Louisiana University.
Around the world the scene is repeated over and over again. In cavernous aircraft hangars handsomely paid aircraft mechanics are spending considerable portions of their shifts leafing through log books, rifling through bins, and on the phone. These highly trained workers are wasting their time by using an antiquated, inaccurate, and inefficient way of locating the right part for the A340 you may be flying across the ocean tomorrow morning. In fact, according to a report from AMR Research, aircraft mechanics spend up to 70% of their time simply locating the correct spare parts for the job.
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