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ERP for defense logistics from IBM
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| Integrated business processes
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The defense industry can benefit from the same successes as commercial businesses with an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. Defense logistics ERP solutions from IBM can help enable near real-time visibility and access to applications and data throughout your organization for more efficient planning and control across your organization.
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| Leverage our intellectual capital
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IBM can provide the necessary skills, experience and capabilities to address your defense logistics ERP needs by adapting or reusing previous project solutions to help reduce risk, cost and time. We can provide access to worldwide capability with proven experience in similar projects. The combination of capabilities and subject matter expertise can reduce complexity and help enable faster delivery of benefits.
Why should you choose IBM? We offer:- Strategic relationships—SAP for enterprise-wide systems and PeopleSoft for human resource applications.
- Dedication—more than US$6 billion a year invested in research and development.
- Experience—IBM has cataloged a wealth of documents and intellectual capital acquired from worldwide defense ERP experiences that are available to support new projects and help ensure shorter, more successful project timelines, as well as risk reduction.
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| Enterprise-wide optimization
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IBM can assess, recommend and implement ERP applications to meet your defense organization’s needs through IBM resources dedicated to ERP engagements. Defense logistics ERP solutions from IBM are built around our extensive intellectual capital. To deploy an integrated defense system we can:- Assess your current processes.
- Evaluate your needs.
- Offer applications and services that promote efficient logistical planning and operations.
For example, an ERP implementation can help you improve the management of maintenance and engineering business processes for a weapons system through the entire lifecycle—from acquisition through in-service support through disposal.
Our solution can help your organization:- Standardize information, processes and applications across departments to minimize and simplify data collection.
- Support asset visibility to more efficiently manage resources.
- Integrate project management, applications and data into an efficient workflow, providing timely and rapid access to information.
- Integrate acquisition, human resources, asset tracking and financial processes to enhance planning and scheduling and provide better decision-making tools.
- Improve maintenance of equipment such as ships, aircraft and tanks.
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| Danish Defence takes evolutionary approach to business
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Like many other large, forward-looking and complex organizations around the world, the Danish Defence began in the mid-90s to consider the benefits of new business processes. IBM Global Services helped them consolidate business systems and re-engineer business processes spanning virtually all operations by implementing an SAP R/3 solution. The Danish Defence was able to:- Provide accurate assessment on how individual initiative and scenarios are affecting the overall effectiveness of operations.
- Improve management control.
- Allow faster decision making.
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| Improve cost efficiencies
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For most defense forces, logistics is a major expense. IBM ERP defense solutions are designed to provide savings in this area:- Integrate fragmented operations to help eliminate redundant costs.
- Accelerate the incorporation of commercial business practices to provide spending efficiencies.
- Reduce the cost, time and risk of process changes.
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