Aerospace and Defense
Map the future of your aerospace and defense (A&D) business by transitioning into a data-centric manufacturing organization with solutions from SAP.
Data treated as a digital asset improves experiences and decisions
Delivering up to half of overall revenue, data-related services will help A&D companies reduce time to market for innovations without compromising safety, while simulating innovation scenarios along a complex value chain.
Create value in the digital aerospace and defense network
Deepen your relationship with suppliers and customers with Industry 4.0
Deliver an entirely new platform to give your customers and business more value. Explore how the next evolution of Industry 4.0 provides an opportunity to restructure product development to redefine manufacturing processes and embed digital technology into your products.
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Accenture Consulting
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PwC Consulting
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SAP Road Map for Aerospace and Defense
Explore our aerospace and defense industry road map to learn more about current industry solutions, planned innovations, and future direction.
Current release highlights
- Optimized order to cash with on-time delivery, collaboration, and predictive capabilities
- Integrated systems engineering that bridge together product definition and detailed design
- Demand-driven inventory planning for materials requirements
- Enhanced maintenance and service planning and execution for complex assets
Upcoming innovations
- Tighter integration of project 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 solutions
- Reliability-centered maintenance processes
Future plans
- Optimize logistics, production, and cost for highly engineered manufacturing 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 with the latest technology
Find aerospace and defense software tailored to your needs
Realize your business goals by simplifying and accelerating your digital transformation
In an era focused on continuous innovation and anticipating customer needs, it can be hard to turn your vision into reality. This is where SAP Digital Business Services can help. We’re part of SAP, so we know SAP software better than anyone else. With over 40 years of experience, we can help you reach your business transformation goals, and everything in between.
Transform your business with unparalleled service support enterprise-wide
SAP Digital Business Services connects business and IT to help you close the gap between your digital transformation strategy and execution. From designing and value discovery to accelerated innovation to productive usage for tangible business results, you can evolve your business by breaking new ground with a trusted adviser that knows SAP software best.
How is SAP leading digital transformation?
Realize your potential with the Intelligent Enterprise
Embrace next-generation technologies by becoming an intelligent enterprise with industry expertise from SAP. As your trusted innovation partner, SAP can help you launch a digital platform, so you can chart your future without bounds.
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Collaborative decision making made simple
Provide tools for experts and engineers in locations dispersed around the globe to work together, evaluate data, and solve challenges in real time.
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Running a live aerospace and defense business
Embrace transformation with a fully connected digital architecture that helps drive operational excellence and reimagine business processes and models.
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Standardizing 3D printing
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Communities and Events
Join the SAP for Aerospace and Defense Community
Visit our community to learn about innovations and trends in aerospace and defense through blogs, discussions, and events with fellow SAP customers and experts.
See highlights from SAP A&D Innovation Days 2019
Find out how business leaders in aerospace and defense are responding to disruptions shaping the future of the industry – and how innovative technologies are helping A&D companies become intelligent enterprises.