Processes

Manage maintenance materials and services

How manage maintenance materials and services are reshaped as AGI capability advances.

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Manage maintenance materials and services — illustrated

The bottom line

About 35% of the work in Manage maintenance materials and services is information-shaped and increasingly AI-deliverable, with the rest a hybrid of judgment and hands-on work. The automation frontier runs straight through the middle of this role.

Why: Since no child occupations are seeded, the scalar is derived entirely from the process name and description. The process involves a mix of hands-on physical execution ('upkeeping parts/equipment') and knowledge-based orchestration ('providing service strategy' and managing materials). Managing physical assets and supply chains inherently skews physical, but the strategic and administrative requirements place this overall work into the lower-hybrid band.

grounded in the economy graph · digital scalar 0.35 · hybrid

Business-as-Code

Read as an executable program — the work decomposed into Code, Generative, Agentic, and Human.

Manage maintenance materials and services sits inside a larger value-flow — 1 parent structure it composes into. The hierarchy is grounding, not the story: it tells you which aggregate exposure Manage maintenance materials and services inherits.

Where Manage maintenance materials and services sits

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How the work flows

Trigger: A maintenance schedule or unexpected aircraft defect generates a requirement for specific parts, specialized tooling, or third-party repair services.

  1. Forecast material and service requirements for upcoming maintenance checks
  2. Source and procure parts from certified aviation suppliers
  3. Manage agreements with third-party MRO service providers
  4. Receive and inspect incoming materials for airworthiness compliance
  5. Store and stage parts in environmentally controlled and secure facilities
  6. Issue materials and dispatch external services to line stations or hangars

Outcome: Required aviation parts, tools, and vendor services are procured, certified, and staged at the appropriate maintenance location to enable immediate work execution.

Measured by

Material Availability RateMaintenance Order Lead TimeInventory Holding CostSupplier On-Time Delivery Rate