Whether you are looking to improve horizontal integration or planning and supporting deployed operations, SAP for Defense & Security delivers a range of business benefits:

• Greater asset visibility -- SAP for Defense & Security solutions offer total transparency into your assets, enabling you to reduce costs associated with inventory, procurement, and warehousing -- and allowing you to make better use of limited resources.
• Increased effectiveness -- The solutions allow you to accurately map your assets against your liabilities, resulting in more effective, uncompromised planning.
• Better decision-making -- With SAP, you achieve interoperability and horizontal integration that reinforce the decision-support process.
• Improved operations support -- With SAP for Defense & Security, you gain access to the tools you need to maximize support for your deployed operations.
• More effective use of resources -- SAP can help increase the ratio of the defense budget that is allocated to the teeth (combat units) rather than to the tail (logistics and administration), enabling you to optimize your financial resources.
• Increased return on investment -- SAP for Defense & Security enables you to perform a comprehensive evaluation of costs and activities for deployed operations and presents new options for collaboration and data exchange among partners, such as government agencies, coalition members, and industry partners.
• Lower total cost of ownership -- SAP for Defense & Security is powered by SAP NetWeaver, which means that you can leverage existing functionalities by turning them into Web services -- protecting your current IT investment and reducing your TCO.