Mach145: redesigning an ERP for aviation parts businesses.

Aviation parts businesses were running quotes, purchase orders, and inventory on legacy systems. The interface made routine work slow and forced people to re-enter the same information in several places.

• One navigation model for a large system. I grouped dozens of screens into Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, Repair, Data, and Admin in a persistent sidebar, so users always know where they are.
• Dense forms, kept manageable. The quote editor holds a lot of fields. I moved secondary data into side drawers (Part Admin for pricing, Aux Data for shipping) and made list rows expandable, so people stay in context.
• Create a PO from a quote line. A single action (+CPO) turns a quote line into a purchase order, without re-keying data.
• FMS Ai. An AI document reader that fills in fields from incoming documents, reducing manual input.
• Readable status and personal themes. Status pills carry text labels, and users can choose Dark, Dim, or Standard themes.

$85M+

in invoices processed on the platform. Users processed quotes and POs faster, and FMS Ai reduced the amount of data they had to enter by hand.

I would start by mapping a baseline workflow, then study the non-standard purchases that don’t fit it, and design how those exceptions flow through the system from the beginning instead of adding them later.