In A&D manufacturing, one disruption can stall an entire program

A late long-lead part, an engineering change, a supplier slip — disruptions cascade through deep BOMs faster than your teams can respond. Pelico surfaces the impact early and coordinates the recovery, so your program dates hold.

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Pelico runs inside some of the world's most complex, high-value aerospace and defense programs — from primes to tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers. Names withheld for confidentiality.

major US aerospace prime

leading European aerospace prime

global commercial aero-engine manufacturer

major defense electronics & avionics group

tier 1 aerostructures & systems supplier

More output, fewer shortages, dates that hold

Past aerospace and defense deployments have delivered:

Throughput

+20%

More output from existing capacity, without added labor or CapEx

Part shortages

-37%

Fewer assemblies waiting on a missing part

On-time delivery

+15%

Programs delivered on time more consistently, through earlier detection

Identifying shortages is so much easier. I can track impacts centrally, escalate instantly, and collaborate with my supply planner directly in-context. Our communication and follow-up time has dropped by 50%.

Program Demand Planner

Fortune 100 aerospace & defense company

The execution gap

An aerospace supply chain disruption doesn't stay contained

In aerospace and defense, the plan and the day-to-day are two different things, and the distance between them is too wide to close with spreadsheets and heroics. That distance is the execution gap: plans are built in systems that assume stability, and executed in conditions that offer none.

Nobody sees how far a slip reaches

A late long-lead part or a mid-build ECO runs through every dependency in a serialized BOM. The full exposure only becomes clear once the date is already at risk.

Three teams, three versions of the truth

Purchasing, production, and engineering each detect the same slip from a different system, at a different hour. Recovery runs on calls and threads.

Decisions land a week late

Trade-offs that should take an afternoon take weeks. By the time the call is made, the date has already moved.

How Pelico orchestrates A&D manufacturing execution

Pelico is the Manufacturing Orchestration Platform that closes the execution gap. It reads what's actually happening across your systems, traces where a disruption lands, and coordinates the response while there's still time to change the outcome.

Every team sees the
full impact

Pelico connects ERP, PLM, supplier portals, quality systems, and the shop floor into one picture. It understands serialized, multi-level BOMs and traces a disruption through every dependency, so purchasing, production, and engineering see the same thing, and material coverage holds for final assembly.

Escalation with a path, not a scramble

When a slip lands, purchasing, production, and engineering work it in the same place, on the same options, instead of across calls and threads. Ownership is explicit, and specialized AI agents take the defined steps while people make the calls, so the line keeps moving.

Leaders know before they're asked

Pelico rolls coverage up by plant, region, and program, so leaders can already say what's at risk, how short they are, and when recovery lands. Not a picture their team spent the morning assembling, and not one that's already stale. It's the difference between defending shortages and driving delivery.

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FAQ

Because on-time delivery is counted part by part, but an assembly needs every part. A supplier base at 96% OTD by component count can still mean 0% production coverage if the one missing part goes into every assembly. Pelico tracks coverage at the build level, showing which work orders and program deliveries are fully covered and which part is holding each one back.

The most practical uses take repetitive work off planners and buyers: chasing overdue supplier orders, summarizing PO notes, and preparing recovery options when a part slips. In Pelico, AI agents work from calculated dependencies across serialized, multi-level BOMs, so recommendations reflect how a disruption actually spreads. People approve before anything reaches a system of record.

Yes. Pelico can run entirely on-premise, so controlled program data never leaves your environment. Defense customers run it this way in production. AI agents can run on a model you host yourself, and your data is never used to train one.