Sustainment is a supply problem.
Readiness doesn't end at a diagnosis. It ends when the right part arrives — through the right route, sourced around the right risks. Mantis fuses the whole picture.
Parts
Work-order BOM demand
Replenishment
Inventory & reorder points
Logistics
Contested & non-contested routes
Materials
Components & rare-earth minerals
Geopolitical conflict
Supplier risk & sourcing exposure
Agentic sourcing
BOM build & multi-supplier sourcing
Risk-aware replenishment
Reorders that route around exposure
Sustainment forecast
Readiness you can defend
Parts
Work-order BOM demand
Replenishment
Inventory & reorder points
Logistics
Contested & non-contested routes
Materials
Components & rare-earth minerals
Geopolitical conflict
Supplier risk & sourcing exposure
Agentic sourcing
BOM build & multi-supplier sourcing
Risk-aware replenishment
Reorders that route around exposure
Sustainment forecast
Readiness you can defend
One fused signal
Parts, replenishment, logistics, materials, and geopolitics rarely live in the same system — and never in real time.
Mantis fuses them into one continuous signal. Demand from work orders meets inventory positions, supplier exposure, contested and non-contested route risk, and raw-material constraints — down to the rare-earth minerals inside a component and the geopolitical conflicts that put them at risk.
That fused picture is what makes the agents useful. Every sourcing recommendation, BOM build, and replenishment plan is grounded in the full sustainment context — not a single spreadsheet or a stale ERP export. The agent knows not just what a fleet needs, but whether it can actually be sourced, moved, and delivered given the world as it is today.
The result is a complete, defensible view of whether your fleet can be kept ready — and exactly what it takes to keep it that way.
Why the supply chain decides readiness
A grounded aircraft is rarely a maintenance failure. It's a supply failure that started weeks earlier and four nodes away.
By the time a part shows up as a shortage on the flight line, the decisions that caused it — where it was made, how it moved, where it was held — are already history. The question isn't whether the supply chain breaks. It's whether you see the break coming, or learn about it from a NMCS report.
Reactive costs more than it looks
- Expedite premiums. Air freight, spot buys, and broker fees to undo a stockout that planning could have prevented.
- Readiness lost to wait time. Aircraft down not for repair, but for a part stuck in transit or sitting at the wrong depot.
- No room to maneuver. When a route closes or a supplier is sanctioned, there's no alternate already staged — only scramble.
Proactive turns risk into lead time
- Source around exposure early. Spot single-source and geopolitical risk while there's still time to qualify an alternate supplier.
- Buy before the shortage. Position stock against forecasted demand and known lead times — not against yesterday's emergency.
- Route around contested legs. Pre-plan alternates for chokepoints and contested logistics, so a closure is a reroute, not a stoppage.
One part, the whole web
Take a single propeller. Readiness depends on every node in the web between the alloy and the aircraft.
Each node carries its own lead time, cost, and risk. The upstream ones are proprietary, so Mantis reads them by proxy. It infers origin, factory, and channel from the signals around them, and flags the contested regions where a single closure can ground a fleet.
Country of manufacture
Where the alloy and machining capacity exist.
Factory
The specific line and lot.
Distributor channel
OEM, authorized dealer, or broker.
Shipping & logistics
Ocean, air, and rail legs across borders.
Warehousing
Theater and depot stock.
Last mile
Final move to the flight line.
Additive manufacturing
Print near the point of need.
Dashed links trace the additive path: print near the point of need, skipping the factory, distributor, and long-haul shipping, though it still draws on certified powder feedstock. Doppler markers flag the contested regions where a single closure can ground a fleet.
Multiply this by every line on every BOM, across a whole fleet. Mantis fuses it into one signal, turning risk at any node into a decision today, not a surprise tomorrow.