Introduction to CAE's In-Flight Services Management
Managing onboard catering can be a challenging task, balancing brand consistency, customer satisfaction, and financial control while dealing with outdated systems and manual processes. CAE's In-Flight Services Management offers a comprehensive solution to simplify onboard provisioning and catering, providing operational visibility and control. This end-to-end system integrates all aspects of services planning, meal ordering, forecasting, operations, materials management, financial controls, and reporting to streamline processes and reduce costs.
Why Choose CAE's In-Flight Services Management?
CAE's solution stands out as the only cater-neutral option in the market, offering accurate forecasting to minimize meal wastage and save costs. The system features fully automated controls to streamline processes, encourage centralized communication, and ensure consistency across the business. By choosing CAE's In-Flight Services Management, airlines can enhance their in-flight meal planning process significantly.
Key Features of CAE's In-Flight Services Management
1. Planning: The Planning tool facilitates long-term menu planning with automation, ensuring better projection of meals served and service allocation. It also enables communication of requirements to third-party caterers, reducing errors in processes.
2. Operations: The Operations tool considers special meal requests, upgrades, and accurate passenger forecasts to optimize meal ordering on the day of operations. The machine learning algorithm minimizes meal wastage by forecasting meal counts per flight per cabin class.
3. Financials: The Financials tool provides analytics for cost control, invoice auditing, and performance analysis, helping airlines automate accounting processes and ensure financial governance.
4. Analysis: The Analysis tool offers powerful web-based reporting capabilities, empowering airlines with accurate data for decision-making and future projections.
5. Galley Optimizer: The Galley Optimizer creates visual layouts for optimal galley and cart plans, enhancing inventory optimization based on ergonomics and convenience for crew.
6. Materials Manager: This inventory control tool automates inventory management for food products, beverages, equipment, disposables, and duty-free items.
7. Operations Re-Provisioner: React quickly to schedule changes with real-time adjustments to catering and provisioning, ensuring accurate catering when responding to last-minute flight changes.
8. Spend Manager: The Spend Manager tool offers budgeting capabilities to compare projected and actual catering costs, providing insights into meal spending and enabling better cost management.
Delivering Cost Savings and Efficiency
CAE's In-Flight Services Management not only streamlines the provisioning and catering process but also delivers cost savings with every meal served. By optimizing resources, automating tasks, and providing a centralized platform for communication and control, airlines can effectively manage their in-flight services while protecting brand consistency and reducing operational inefficiencies.