Precision machined aerospace structures and rotating components for defense and commercial programs. Every part lot-controlled. Every shipment traceable. Every job costed to the hour.
// The Business
Mars Aerospace Components is a make-to-order precision machining and fabrication shop specializing in titanium, Inconel, and aluminum aerospace structures. Founded in 2001 by former Raytheon engineers, Mars serves Tier 1 aerospace primes on both defense and commercial programs. Revenue is contract-driven with long cycle times — jobs run weeks to months, not days. Cost visibility at the job level is the critical reporting challenge.
// The Epicor Setup
Mars runs Epicor Kinetic with job costing, lot and serial traceability, and multi-level bill of materials. Their data spans three years of job history, contract billing milestones, and full lot genealogy across 85+ active part numbers. The Tailored.BI warehouse connects via the SQL Server ETL lane, using SysRevChangedDate watermark filtering. JobHead and LaborDtl are the highest-volume tables at over 2M rows combined.
For a manufacturer like Mars, Epicor Kinetic represents a $500K–$2M+ investment. Tailored.BI surfaces the value of that investment — turning job cost data into margin visibility that drives every contract decision.
Bulkheads Al 7075-T73
Spars & ribs AMS 4045
Longerons machined
Turbine blisks Ti-64
Fan spacers machined
Shafts ground & balanced
Control rods titanium
Bellcranks & clevis joints
Hydraulic manifolds
FAA-PMA approved items
Overhaul kits per CMM
AOG priority support
8 Power BI Report Views
Built on the Tailored.BI Fabric data warehouse, connected directly to Mars's Epicor Kinetic data. Job costing, contract status, labor efficiency, lot traceability, and on-time delivery — all from one semantic model with one dim.Date.
| Account | Actual | Var |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $18.4M | +3.1% |
| Dir. Labor | $4.2M | -1.8% |
| Material | $7.1M | +0.9% |
| Burden | $2.0M | -0.4% |
| Customer | Jobs | OTD |
|---|---|---|
| Raytheon | 18 | 97.2% |
| L3 Harris | 14 | 95.8% |
| Boeing DS | 11 | 92.4% |
| Northrop | 9 | 94.1% |
| Material | Lots | Jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Ti-6Al-4V | 128 | 89 |
| Inconel 718 | 94 | 62 |
| Al 7075 | 72 | 54 |
| Al 2024 | 48 | 38 |
How your data flows
Job cost to dashboard. Every morning.
Mars runs make-to-order precision machining — every job has a contract, a cost, a delivery commitment, and a traceability requirement. The Tailored.BI warehouse captures all of it and surfaces job profitability, on-time delivery, and contract revenue in one live dashboard.
Epicor Kinetic — job shop configuration
Every aerospace job has a work order, estimated and actual labor hours, material costs, lot numbers, and a contract milestone. Epicor tracks all of it — but the native reporting doesn't surface job profitability or delivery performance at a glance.
Tailored.BI managed warehouse
Job cost variance, lot traceability, contract milestone billing, labor efficiency, and on-time delivery — all extracted nightly from Epicor and shaped into clean reporting tables. Only changed records move. AS9100D audit trails preserved.
Power BI — job profitability at a glance
Finance opens the dashboard and sees this morning's job cost variance, contract revenue recognized, on-time delivery rate, and open AP. No waiting for a report run. No asking operations for the numbers. The data is already there.
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Mars Aerospace Components is a fictional make-to-order manufacturer — but every pipeline, every warehouse table, and every report you just explored is built on real Epicor architecture.
If you run a make-to-order or job shop on Epicor Kinetic — job costing, lot traceability, contract billing — this is exactly what your subscription delivers. Job profitability, delivery performance, contract revenue, live every morning. Starting at $1,500/month.