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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.

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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.


Business Capture and Program Delivery

  • Government Contracting
  • Omnichannel Commerce
  • Portfolio, Program and Project Management
  • Quote-to-Cash

Designing and Building Complex Products

  • Intelligent Asset Maintenance
  • Manufacturing Execution and Insights
  • Manufacturing Operations and Network
  • Product Compliance and Safety
  • Products Development and Configuration

Responsive Supply Network

  • Response and Supply Management
  • Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning
  • Track &Trace and Logistics Network
  • Transportation Management
  • Warehouse Management

Aftermarket Services

  • Billing and Revenue Innovation Management
  • Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO)
  • Omnichannel Customer Service
  • Performance-based Life-cycle Support
  • Service Parts Management
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Create value in the digital aerospace and defense network

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Become a data and customer-centric enterprise

Learn about the intelligent technologies that will be instrumental in reinventing aerospace and defense products, services, and core processes in response to market trends.

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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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53%

of aerospace companies expect digital technologies to help reduce manufacturing delays.

Accenture Consulting

$3.4

billion per year estimated savings in material and logistical costs with 3D printing for the maintenance, repair, and operations market.

PwC Consulting

10%

potential reduction in total manufacturing cost when moving from a traditional ERP system to SAP S/4HANA and the cloud.

SAP Performance Benchmarking

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.


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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 
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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
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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

Adapt quickly to market volatility, complex supply chains, and shrinking budgets by improving everything from discrete manufacturing to cybersecurity.
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SAP S/4HANA

Become a best-run business by connecting people, business networks, the Internet of Things, and Big Data with our real-time enterprise resource management suite for digital business; deployed in the cloud or on premise.

SAP Digital Boardroom

Equip C-level executives with real-time contextual information and ad hoc analysis – using SAP Digital Boardroom. Built on SAP Analytics Cloud, this next-generation board portal leverages lines of business data from SAP S/4HANA and other applications to provide a single source of truth.

Transform your business faster with help from SAP Digital Business Services

Jump-start your SAP solutions and drive ROI by collaborating with industry experts, consultants, and support engineers to receive guidance, prescriptive best practices, and expertise – no matter where you are on your journey.
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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.

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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?

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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.

See how customers are succeeding with SAP

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Seamless manufacturing with a digital twin

Discover how Diehl Aviation connects thousands of workers while eliminating engineering complexity and manufacturing delays.

Improving HR efficiency with SAP SuccessFactors

Find out how Newport News Shipbuilding is streamlining HR processes and providing employees with easy access to information.

10 fewer days needed for training and consulting

Learn how aerospace firm Thales Athenia Space cut the time required to comply with the International Financial Reporting Standard.

Exceed expectations with the latest IT innovations

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Maintain and manage the digital aircraft

Run aircraft maintenance operations in real time and enable collaboration on a digital network, reducing operational costs and increasing asset utilization.

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Take a three-horizons approach to innovation

Explore innovation-led digital road maps and use cases for delivering a smart factory, service-centric business models, and smart products.

Get the latest news and trends from experts

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torsten.welte
Torsten Welte
Global VP, Aerospace and Defense
SAP

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.

frank.klipphahn
Frank Klipphahn
Aerospace and Defense Expert
SAP

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.

thomas.pohl
Thomas Pohl
Aerospace and Defense Expert
SAP

Standardizing 3D printing

Change parts manufacturing by accelerating adoption and standardization of industrial 3D printing.

Communities and Events

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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.

Manage your aerospace and defense business enterprise-wide

Explore our comprehensive solutions for all business processes across all industries to find the solutions you need to build a connected business.
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Human Resources

Simplify HR processes and engage your workforce to drive better business results, empower your workforce, and develop your talent.

Finance

Bring together financial processes with automated, real-time analytics, and translate them into forward-looking business insight across the entire organization.

Procurement and Networks

Streamline procurement processes across your organization, driving compliance and control while cutting costs and risks.

Analytics

Take advantage of in-depth data analysis, predictions, and processing of complex events, and combine data from a variety of sources into one, integrated platform.

Cloud and Data Platforms

Leverage business applications that use the latest technology advancements – including the SAP HANA platform, cloud, mobile, and more.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Deploy high-velocity, intelligent edge IoT applications using business and technology services.

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