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Applying AI to Drill Into MROs’ Supply Chain Bottlenecks

Company says maintenance providers need a way to count the real cost of delivery delays

Centrum AI — Centrum AI helps maintenance, repair and overhaul providers more accurately assess their exposure to risks from supply chain bottlenecks.

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

September 17, 2026

Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) providers will stay mired in supply chain bottlenecks unless they effectively tap data sources beyond those provided by manufacturers. Centrum AI says its new technology allows users to get a more complete assessment of the availability of parts and other hardware they need—avoiding the need to hold costly inventory to guard against delays.

According to the U.S.-based start-up, the platform tracks around 20 billion global and corporate records, such as import/export records, shipping data, and statutory financial filings, to form a more complete picture of issues that could disrupt their supply chains. From this, Centrum generates what it calls “a probabilistic bill of material” providing “an inferred supplier graph” that incorporates OEM data and runs through the supply chain, accounting for issues such as raw-material availability.

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