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Aerospace and Defense
SAP Aerospace and Defense (A&D) treats data like a digital asset to support improvements in experiences and decisions. Delivering up to half of overall revenue, data-related services help A&D companies reduce time to market for innovations without jeopardizing safety, while simulating innovation scenarios along a complex value chain.
Key Capabilities of SAP Aerospace and Defense include:
- Business capture and program delivery. Including omni-channel commerce, quote-to-cash, portfolio program and project management, government contracting, and data and service monetization.
- Designing and building complex products. Product development and configuration, product compliance and safety, product manufacturing for complex assembly, collaborative production supply, manufacturing execution and insights, and intelligent asset maintenance.
- Responsive supply network. Sales, inventory, and operations planning, response and supply management, transportation management, track and trace logistics network, and warehouse management.
- Aftermarket services. Omni-channel customer service, maintenance repair and overhaul, performance-based lifecycle support, service parts management and billing and revenue innovation management.
SAP Aerospace and Defense (A&D) treats data like a digital asset to support improvements in experiences and decisions. Delivering up to half of overall revenue, data-related services help A&D companies reduce time to market for innovations without jeopardizing safety, while simulating innovation scenarios along a complex value chain.
Key Capabilities of SAP Aerospace and Defense include:
- Business capture and program delivery. Including omni-channel commerce, quote-to-cash, portfolio program and project management, government contracting, and data and service monetization.
- Designing and building complex products. Product development and configuration, product compliance and safety, product manufacturing for complex assembly, collaborative production supply, manufacturing execution and insights, and intelligent asset maintenance.
- Responsive supply network. Sales, inventory, and operations planning, response and supply management, transportation management, track and trace logistics network, and warehouse management.
- Aftermarket services. Omni-channel customer service, maintenance repair and overhaul, performance-based lifecycle support, service parts management and billing and revenue innovation management.
Though the SAP Aerospace and Defense roadmap, companies can learn more about current industry solutions, planned innovations and future direction. The roadmap includes:
- Current release highlights
- Optimize order to cash with on-time delivery, collaboration, and predictive capabilities
- Integrated systems engineering bridging together the product definition and detailed design
- Demand driven inventory planning for materials requirements
- Enhanced maintenance, service planning and execution for complex assets
- Upcoming innovations
- Tight integration of product information with a central finance solution
- Better management of order changes across production engineering and operations
- Improved monitoring with extended warehouse management and global track and trace
- Reliability centered maintenance processes
- Future Plans
- Optimize logistics, production, and cost for highly engineered manufactured operations
- Enhance nonconformity management including standardization of issue-resolution procedures
- Support the demand driven model across tactical and operational horizons
- Enable next generation service parts management by the latest technology
Examples of SAP software for A&D to help organizations adopt quickly to market volatility, complex supply chains, and shrink budgets are:
- SAP S/4HANA: Business networks, the Internet of Things (loT), and big data in real-time deployed in the cloud or on premise.
- SAP Digital Boardroom: Equipping organizations with real-time contextual information and ad hoc analysis.
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