SAP for Aerospace & Defense delivers a range of business benefits, including:

• Improved reporting – Perform earned-value reporting to fulfill government procurement regulations for contract-cost and progress reporting.
• Reduced waste and faster time to value – Take an enterprise approach to implementing best manufacturing practices such as lean manufacturing.
• Faster turnaround – Communicate easily with suppliers and customers, optimize complex program management, reduce cycle times in the supply chain, and speed reporting.
• Improved product, process, and quality information – Use integrated product and process data as a single, consistent set of data.
• Increased visibility and control – Facilitate access to meaningful information to make the right decisions quickly.
• Reduced costs – Streamline processes and simplify complex system landscapes.
• Better customer relationships – Attract and retain customers through personalized service and targeted-marketing initiatives.
• Higher employee productivity – Provide employees with the tools and information they need to fulfill their responsibilities.
• Improved maintenance management – Track and manage maintenance requirements and eliminate redundant maintenance tasks. Integrate maintenance requirements with supply chain management to reduce parts shortages, speed maintenance execution, and increase asset availability.
• Reduced overall maintenance costs – Check an asset's configuration when a new component is installed – or prior to the asset's release to service – to eliminate the need for costly corrective actions.
• Reduced inventory – Integrate maintenance with supply chain management and support interchangeable parts and the Spec 2000 communication standard.
• Faster realization of service revenues – Invoice based on consumed resources within days of maintenance execution, rather than months.