Industry
Defense and Security
Region: North America and Europe
Summary
A global company serving the defense, federal, and commercial markets with innovative solutions for the ground tactical, airborne and avionics, naval/maritime, and security domains automates their manufacturing and cost management solutions using enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications supplemented by SFA’s solutions for manufacturing and cost accounting
Objectives and Challenges
- Objectives: Digital transformation on global manufacturing and cost accounting management through enterprise resource planning applications
- Challenges: Complex global procurement and stock management; convoluted labor, materials, and overheads; large bill of materials and nested product structure; sensitive infrastructure management; encrypted document management; multiple product revisions; multi-billion-dollar make/buy procurement; thousands of global vendors and priorities; multi-tier inventory
Results
- Integrated manufacturing and procurement business processes within the ERP applications including integrations with suppliers for JIT Inventory
- Automated Order To Promise and Inventory Management with auto-replenish functionality
- Cost accounting based on product versions and bill of materials with multi-tiered procurement options
- Document management and retrievals for shop floor manufacturing and warranty support
- Realtime cost accounting solution within the ERP application by product lines
Benefits
- Integrated cost management and accounting solution across all product lines with real-time integration to general ledger
- Optimized performance in cost breakdown structure on products with thousands of embedded parts and services
- Integrated manufacturing, shop floor and inventory management
- Integrated product versions and engineering documentation updates, reviews, and approvals for effective cost management
Products and Technology
- PeopleSoft Supply/Chain, Financials, Procurement, Red Pepper, Cost Management, Order Management, General Ledger, Inventory
- SQL Server
- PeopleTools
- Microsoft Technologies
- JavaScript
- Cronjobs
- Documentum
- PGP
- Adobe
- Business Objects