Case Study: AAR Corporation achieves 50% faster sourcing cycles and 12% cost savings with Coupa Software

AAR Corp Balances AerospaceGrade Quality with Cost Savings

AAR Corp, a global aerospace and defense services company, faced long, complex sourcing cycles—often sending RFPs with 15,000+ parts that took four months or more—limiting them to one or two events per year and making it hard to balance cost with supply resilience and quality for critical maintenance parts.

By centralizing rich part and supplier data in Coupa, using templates, AI-driven imports, Item Access/RFI rounds, automated validations, custom costing formulas, and scenario optimization, AAR automated sourcing end-to-end. The result: sourcing cycles cut by 50%, time-to-market for events shortened from weeks to days, and an average 12% savings versus baseline over four years, with fewer stockouts and more informed award decisions.

AAR Corporation