Every aviation business generates thousands of transactions every day — RFQs, quotes, purchase orders, sales orders, repairs, inventory movements, shipments, and invoices. The challenge is not collecting the data. The challenge is turning that data into decisions.
Instead of spending hours exporting spreadsheets and manually building reports, your team gains instant visibility into the metrics that matter most — without ever leaving the ERP.Aero ecosystem.
Why Tableau?
Tableau is one of the world's leading business intelligence platforms, trusted by organizations across aerospace, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and finance. By combining Tableau with ERP.Aero's aviation-specific data model, InsightIQ delivers capabilities that generic BI deployments cannot match out of the box.
The integration provides real-time KPI monitoring, interactive dashboards with full drill-down capability, automated executive reporting, department-specific scorecards, trend analysis, and mobile and desktop access. Users can move from a company-wide overview to individual transaction detail with just a few clicks — no data analyst required.
"Understanding revenue is important. Understanding profitability is critical. FlightDeck Analytics gives management teams both — in real time, without manual effort."
— InsightIQ Product Brief, KeyMetricsMonitor Revenue and Profitability
The Revenue and Margins KPI Dashboard sits at the center of InsightIQ's financial visibility stack. Management teams can track total sales, gross profit, margin percentage, markup percentage, and revenue and profit trends — segmented by sales representative and by customer.
The practical output: leadership can immediately identify the most profitable customers, surface low-margin transactions before they compound, flag underperforming product categories, and prioritize sales opportunities that need attention. This replaces the end-of-month Excel retrospective with a live operational lens.
Improve Sales Performance
Two dedicated dashboards serve sales teams. The Sales Funnel Dashboard tracks every stage of the process — RFQs received, quotes submitted, orders won and lost, conversion rates, hit ratios, and pipeline value. Managers can answer critical questions without pulling reports: which reps close the most business, which customers generate the highest quote volume, what percentage of RFQs convert into sales, and where deals are being lost.
The Average Time to Quote Dashboard addresses a competitive reality in aviation: speed matters. It measures average quoting time, quote turnaround trends, and performance by salesperson and by customer. Faster responses consistently lead to higher win rates and improved customer satisfaction scores.
Gain Full Operational Visibility
Operations managers need to know where delays occur before customers feel the impact. The Operations Review Dashboard provides a comprehensive overview including open sales orders, open purchase orders, pending shipments, backorders, processing delays, and workflow bottlenecks — giving management the information needed to act before issues escalate.
The Time to Service Dashboard tracks operational efficiency across every stage of the fulfillment process: time to process RFQs, time to issue POs, time to receive material, time to inspect inventory, time to ship, and time to invoice. This continuous measurement creates the operational feedback loop necessary to drive turnaround improvement over time.
Optimize Purchasing and Supply Chain
The Purchase Order Status Dashboard monitors open purchase orders, late purchase orders, vendor performance, expected delivery dates, and material shortages. The companion Arrival Schedule Dashboard provides visibility into incoming inventory and expected arrivals, helping teams improve planning, reduce shortages, prioritize customer orders, and manage inventory commitments against live demand.
Improve Inventory Management
Inventory is often one of the largest capital investments for aviation suppliers and repair stations. The Inventory Dashboard tracks inventory value, turnover, shelf stock levels, excess inventory, slow-moving inventory, and overall stock availability. The Opportunistic Purchase Dashboard sits alongside it to help teams identify high-demand inventory worth purchasing proactively, improve future margins, reduce emergency purchasing, and support strategic stocking decisions.
Strengthen Financial Controls
Finance teams require visibility beyond standard accounting reports. The Invoices and COGS Dashboard analyzes revenue by period, cost of goods sold, gross profit trends, and profitability at both the customer and product level. The Credit Limit Dashboard monitors customer credit exposure, open balances, credit utilization, and potential collection risks — helping organizations reduce bad debt and improve cash flow management before problems surface.
Measure Customer Performance
Customer relationships are built on service. InsightIQ enables organizations to track on-time delivery, order fulfillment performance, revenue by customer, margin by customer, quote response times, and purchase trends through a suite of customer-focused dashboards including the Sales Dashboard by Customer, Invoices Dashboard by Customer, and Open and Closed Transactions Dashboard.
Operational Impact
The Full Dashboard Spectrum
InsightIQ includes over 90 aviation-focused dashboards developed specifically for ERP.Aero's data model. Below is a representative view of the most commonly deployed dashboards by operational area.
FlightDeck Analytics — Dashboard Directory
90+ total dashboardsNeeds to Capabilities
InsightIQ maps directly to the reporting gaps aviation operators encounter when operating without a dedicated BI layer.
| Business Need | InsightIQ Capability | Dashboard |
|---|---|---|
| Live revenue & margin visibility | Real-time KPI monitoring by rep, customer, and product | Revenue & Margin KPI |
| Sales pipeline tracking | Full funnel from RFQ to close with hit ratios | Sales FunnelAvg. Time to Quote |
| Operational bottleneck detection | Cross-stage fulfillment timing with delay alerts | Operations ReviewTime to Service |
| Purchasing delays & shortages | PO status, late orders, vendor performance, arrivals | PO StatusArrival Schedule |
| Inventory optimization | Turnover, excess, slow-movers, strategic buy signals | InventoryOpportunistic Purchase |
| Financial controls & credit risk | COGS analysis, period profitability, credit exposure | Invoices & COGSCredit Limit |
| Customer health & service level | OTD, revenue, margin, and response time by customer | Customer Performance |
ERP.Aero's built-in reporting is excellent for transactional records. What InsightIQ adds is the analytical layer above that — the ability to see patterns across time, compare performance across reps or customers, and surface anomalies proactively, rather than reactively after month-end close.
The difference between a transaction report and a live KPI dashboard is the difference between knowing what happened and knowing what is happening right now — and what it means for next quarter.
Turn Your ERP Data Into a Competitive Advantage
ERP.Aero already captures the data your business needs. InsightIQ transforms that information into clear, actionable intelligence — helping parts distributors, repair stations, MROs, manufacturers, and asset management companies monitor every aspect of their operation from a single platform, without manual effort.