Why Aviall failed in their implementation of an airplane parts and components inventory control system?

Question

Why Aviall failed in their implementation of an airplane parts and components inventory control system?

Answer 1

From a management class @ UMN.

Case 3:  Aviall Inc.

From Failure to Success with IT

    * Supplier of airplane parts and components

    * Had lost track of its inventory

          o Price-tracking software didn’t work with inventory control or purchasing forecasting

          o Sent wrong parts to wrong customers

          o Sales falling

    * Needed a middleware vision:  get all the software to work together

David Harris

Fall 2007

Case Study Questions

    * Why do you think Aviall failed in their implementation of an airplane parts & components inventory control system?

Answer 2

I always use API.