SAP for Defense & Security solutions empower organizations in a broad range of mission-critical activities, including:

Mission Enablement

• Strategy management – SAP for Defense & Security lets you address the needs of both the organization and individual staff members, build an active community of performance managers by promoting collaboration, and bring structure and consistency to scheduled operational reviews.
• Intelligence and information management – You can anticipate and guide stakeholders toward a timely and effective resolution of key issues.
• Decision-making analytics – You can combine simulations with total resource visibility to allow key stakeholders to make timely and effective decisions.
• Logistics management – SAP for Defense & Security enables full life-cycle management of weapons systems and assets - from concept development through disposal - throughout the entire defense ecosystem.
• Asset tracking and monitoring – You can obtain total asset visibility and track mission and support assets by using technologies such as radio-frequency identification (RFID) and unique identification (UID).
• Sensor integration – You can receive relevant sensory information from people and equipment from throughout the defense enterprise to achieve better results.
• Weapons systems integration – SAP for Defense & Security provides integration of weapons systems, which improves system availability and reduces the total cost of ownership.
• Weapons systems monitoring – You can better monitor weapons systems to optimize decision making and mission readiness.
• Command and control integration – SAP for Defense & Security ensures seamless integration between the SAP ERP application and command and control information systems (C2IS).
• Operations management – With SAP for Defense & Security, you can view all deployed combined forces by using a geographic information system (GIS) and organization-specific layers of information.
• Functional area services (FAS) integration – SAP for Defense & Security uses standard messaging to ensure seamless integration between SAP ERP and NATO FAS.

Workforce Management and Support

• Strategic force planning – SAP for Defense & Security lets you integrate planning and execution and align defense resources with your strategic direction.
• Workforce management – You can optimize the potential of the civilian and military workforce by using talent management, workforce process management, and workforce deployment tools.
• Education and training – You can deliver a collective training environment that integrates back-office ERP and learning management functionality to support online, offline, and classroom training.
• Self-service processes – Defense personnel can access resources in various functional areas to optimize data and forms processing and promote work-life balance.
• Staff collaboration – You can involve all relevant stakeholders across organizational, functional, and geographic boundaries throughout the defense ecosystem.

Budget Monitoring and Management

• Financial management – With SAP for Defense & Security, you can maintain and improve your financial management infrastructures while improving transparency and accountability and achieving compliance with budgeting, reporting, and financial management principles and priorities.
• Capital program management – You can improve the management of programs to enable efficient use of funds and visibility across projects.
• Fixed-asset management – You can maintain a complete picture of the assets available to support missions at home and abroad.

Business Processes in Detail

SAP solutions and applications support business processes related to the defense & security industry. Learn more about these business processes.