Boost performance and profitability with our solutions for the aerospace and defense industry

Plan, set up, execute, and monitor comprehensive, complex programs or projects and fulfill contractual obligations such as agreed-upon costs and schedules.

• Streamline program management to ensure on-time delivery
• Enhance earned value management to improve profitability
• Integrate stakeholder requirements into project schedules
• Maintain end-to-end program visibility with real-time analytics

Effectively manage and maintain the product data and master data that designers, schedulers, and project managers need for making sound decisions.

• Promote continuous product and service innovation
• Speed time to market with integrated product development
• Visualize products at any stage of development

Support all phases of new-product manufacturing. Integrate product and process design, adhere to strict documentation standards, and capture and control costs.

• Optimize production with improved lean manufacturing processes
• Reduce production failures with enhanced closed-loop quality management
• Accelerate manufacturing operations to reduce time to delivery
• Improve performance management to maintain full visibility of program progress

Produce products in response to customer orders. Perform minor engineering during production, and produce subassemblies and components based on demand forecasts.

• Speed custom product delivery with improved engineer-to-order processes
• Improve project manufacturing to meet customer requirements
• Accelerate efficient manufacturing operations for discrete industries

Automate the procurement of materials used for core business processes. Offer employees self-services to purchase their own corporate-compliant materials.

• Centralize sourcing and contract management to ensure program efficiency
• Synchronize sourcing with procurement to align materials with program demands
• Speed the contract-to-cash process to improve program profitability
• Accelerate procurement to deliver products faster

Keep program execution on course and costs down with instant analytic insight into all your programs. Make sound decisions based on actionable information.

• Monitor relevant KPIs to detect and mitigate risk early
• Detect potential delays and overruns to control program costs
• Enable information sharing across departments to control quality
• Use root-cause analysis to resolve issues at the source

Extend the life of costly aircraft while reducing maintenance costs. Unify operations and use new technologies to increase productivity and business opportunities.

• Optimize operations and reduce costs by eliminating redundant maintenance tasks
• Augment operations with condition-based maintenance techniques
• Integrate operations with engineering to speed task execution
• Integrate task execution with supply chain management to ensure parts availability
• Use mid- and long-term forecasting to optimize maintenance scheduling

Rapidly implement industry best practices with an SAP Business All-in-One solution designed specifically for midsize aerospace and defense companies.

• Lower IT costs by minimizing the staff required to evaluate and implement software
• Activate best-practice preconfigurations to speed implementation and reduce costs
• Use preconfigured processes to avoid missed project deadlines and budget overruns
• Work with SAP partners to develop scalable, adaptable solutions