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Increasing global competition. Continued consolidation. The emergence of complex industrial alliances. These factors create a highly-competitive environment that requires collaboration and cooperation between companies in the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry. To compete for new business opportunities, companies around the world must optimise their production and engineering resources by forming partnerships and joint ventures across the industry.

Successful A&D companies address today's challenges by proactively managing performance across the enterprise with risk-balanced strategy management and risk-based controls embedded in business process areas ranging from financial to human resources, environmental to trade management.

Increase Sustainability

A performance-based logistics solution from SAP can serve as an integrated IT system and the foundation for a future-oriented business model, supporting all aspects of system sustainability. Read the white paper "Performance-Based Logistics: A Global Trend in the Aerospace & Defence Sector" (PDF) to examine how performance-based logistics helps A&D organizations improve performance of military equipment, reduce costs, and increase support of front-line forces.

Watch the Webcast "Performance Based Logistics (PBL) – A Global Trend in the Aerospace & Defence Sector" to hear the latest about the concept and benefits of PBL and how ministries of defence and contractors can better leverage the implementation of PBL.

Increase Compliance

With SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions, you can automate risk-based GRC processes to address risk management, access management, continuous controls testing and data monitoring, and compliance management and reporting.

The SAP for Aerospace & Defence (SAP for A&D) solution set addresses the needs of several industry segments, including aerospace and defence manufacturers and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO)/maintenance and engineering (M&E) service providers. Our solutions can help your company control costs more closely, increase sustainability, and improve compliance.

Leading A&D Companies Transform Business with SAP

Discover how businesses like yours are gaining a competitive edge with SAP solutions.

Volvo Aerospace Services (PDF) – Find out how Volvo Aero Services uses SAP software to enable an evolving business model and achieve operating efficiencies.