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Aerospace Pilot #1: Suppliers
Executive Summary
SagaAerospace™ Pilot 1 Supplier Onboarding, Certification Gating, and Paid Orders (Spec 2000)
The Breakthrough
Pilot 1 demonstrates a practical, production-ready approach to modernizing aerospace and defense supplier onboarding and procurement. Using SagaChain, the pilot shows how supplier identity, quality certifications, and procurement orders can be linked into a single, auditable workflow – where payments are released only when compliance requirements are met. The result is faster onboarding, reduced risk, and cleaner audits without replacing existing ERP or procurement systems.
The Problem Today
Supplier onboarding is slow, fragmented, and document-heavy, often taking months due to manual verification of ISO 9001 and AS9100 certifications.
Procurement systems issue orders without enforceable, real-time checks on certification status or scope.
Payment and audit trails are scattered across ERP systems, certification portals, emails, and spreadsheets.
Auditors and oversight teams struggle to reconstruct who was certified, when, and under what conditions a payment was released.
What Pilot 1 Achieves
Using SagaChain’s persistent object model and aerospace standards alignment, Pilot 1 delivers an end-to-end procurement workflow that is:
Compliance-Gated by Design
Suppliers are onboarded as verified organizations with recorded ISO 9001 and AS9100 certificates. Orders cannot proceed unless required certifications are present and valid.
Standards-Aligned Procurement
Procurement is modeled using Spec 2000 order logic, with National Stock Number (NSN) and part-number indexing for instant retrieval and traceability.
Automated, Condition-Based Payment
Once compliance conditions are met, payment is executed in SagaCoin (PSC) between buyer and supplier accounts, with the transaction permanently linked to the order.
Audit-Ready and Verifiable
Every critical action – onboarding, certification, order issuance, and payment – is recorded with immutable references, producing a clean oversight record without exposing sensitive documents.
Real-World Benefits
For OEMs and Tier-1 Integrators
Reduce supplier onboarding time from months to days.
Enforce certification requirements automatically before orders are placed or paid.
Lower procurement risk from uncertified or out-of-scope suppliers.
For Suppliers
Onboard once and reuse verified certifications across customers.
Receive faster, predictable payments once compliance conditions are satisfied.
Reduce administrative overhead and repetitive audits.
For Auditors and Oversight Bodies
Gain instant visibility into certification status, order history, and payment links.
Replace manual document reconciliation with a single, authoritative audit trail.
Improve confidence in compliance without increasing reporting burden.
Available now (on public development testnet) for review and testing
Pilots starts in ~90 days
Pilot 1 is live on the SagaChain public testnet and ready for real-world evaluation. We invite aerospace OEMs, Tier-1 integrators, suppliers, certification bodies, and auditors to:
- Test supplier onboarding and certification gating in a controlled environment.
- Validate Spec 2000 order flows with compliance-linked payments.
- Assess audit and oversight improvements using immutable, standards-based records.
- Collaborate on extending the model to additional aerospace and defense workflows.
More than a technical pilot…
The foundation for a safer, faster, and dramatically more efficient aerospace quality and certification ecosystem.
The global aerospace community – OEMs, suppliers, operators, and investors – has a unique opportunity to take custodianship of this transformative quality and compliance framework.
By validating the architecture, completing regulatory and standards mappings (e.g., AS9100/9110/9120, EASA Part 21/145, FAA 14 CFR), and collaborating on refinements, you can accelerate a global rollout that delivers substantial operational efficiencies (faster certification cycles, real-time conformity and airworthiness evidence) and material financial gains (reduced rework and delays, lower audit costs, minimized grounding and recall risk).
This open framework empowers manufacturers with streamlined compliance and traceability, regulators with continuous, data-driven oversight, and operators and passengers with safer, more reliable aircraft.