Best Practices for Implementing SAP MRO in A&D

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Key Takeaways

Successful MRO modernization in Aerospace & Defense involves aligning stakeholders across maintenance, supply chain, compliance, and IT to define clear success metrics before implementation.
Mapping current workflows and identifying inefficiencies is crucial for leveraging SAP MRO's automation and integration capabilities, helping organizations transition smoothly to future-state processes.
Change management is essential during MRO modernization, requiring comprehensive training, communication strategies, and user adoption programs to ensure effective transformation.

Modernizing MRO in Aerospace & Defense requires a strategic shift from reactive to integrated maintenance environments, involving stakeholder alignment, process mapping, full system integration, and comprehensive change management, all supported by a knowledgeable partner like delaware to ensure successful SAP MRO implementation.

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Modernizing MRO isn’t just about technology—it’s about change. Aerospace & Defense companies need to evolve from siloed, reactive maintenance environments to integrated, predictive ecosystems that support readiness, traceability, and sustainability.

But making that shift requires more than installing new software. It requires strategy, alignment, and a partner who understands A&D complexity. Here’s how successful organizations approach SAP MRO implementation—and how delaware helps them get it right.

Step 1: Align Stakeholders Early

Your maintenance, supply chain, compliance, and IT teams all need to be on the same page. Before implementation begins, define what success looks like:

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Do you want to reduce emergency maintenance?

Improve audit readiness?

Optimize spare part availability?

Clear goals drive alignment and adoption later.

Step 2: Map Current and Future Processes

Before deploying SAP MRO, map your current maintenance workflows and identify inefficiencies. Then define future-state processes that take advantage of SAP MRO’s automation and integration capabilities.

delaware helps you bridge the gap by tailoring prebuilt SAP MRO templates to your operational needs.

Step 3: Focus on Integration

Many A&D companies still rely on disconnected planning and execution systems. SAP MRO works best when fully integrated with:

SAP S/4HANA or ECC

Inventory and warehouse management

Maintenance execution systems

Quality and compliance tracking tools

We ensure all systems are connected, tested, and supported—so your teams can work with a single source of truth.

Step 4: Plan for Change Management

Modernizing MRO will change how technicians work, how planners forecast, and how leadership makes decisions. Change management isn’t optional—it’s critical.

We help you build training plans, communication strategies, and user adoption programs that make transformation stick.

Why delaware?

delaware is a trusted SAP partner with deep A&D experience. Our FAST A&D methodology helps companies deploy SAP MRO faster, with less customization and greater agility.

If you’re planning to upgrade, replatform, or optimize MRO, our team is ready to help you modernize with confidence.

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Key Takeaways

Successful MRO modernization in Aerospace & Defense involves aligning stakeholders across maintenance, supply chain, compliance, and IT to define clear success metrics before implementation.

Mapping current workflows and identifying inefficiencies is crucial for leveraging SAP MRO's automation and integration capabilities, helping organizations transition smoothly to future-state processes.

Change management is essential during MRO modernization, requiring comprehensive training, communication strategies, and user adoption programs to ensure effective transformation.