How does SAP connect engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and MRO in Aerospace and Defense?

SAP integrates design data, procurement workflows, production planning, and MRO execution into a single platform. This helps Aerospace and Defense organizations reconcile engineering changes faster, align material availability with production and maintenance schedules, and ensure readiness by synchronizing demand, capacity, and component availability across the entire lifecycle.

Make Aerospace & Defense Supply Chains Mission-Ready with SAP

Q: How can SAP improve supply chain visibility and operational readiness in Aerospace and Defense?

SAP provides end to end visibility across engineering, procurement, production, maintenance, and quality. When configured and governed correctly, SAP enables Aerospace and Defense organizations to trust MRP signals, manage long lead time components more effectively, improve traceability for compliance, and align MRO and production planning to support readiness objectives. The key is ensuring behaviors, data, and processes are aligned with how SAP is designed to function.

Q: What SAP capabilities are most underutilized in Aerospace and Defense supply chains?

Many Aerospace and Defense manufacturers struggle to fully leverage exception management, advanced ATP, planning strategies, MRP configuration, and serialization or batch level traceability. These gaps often lead to spreadsheet driven workarounds, inflated inventory, and schedule instability. When these SAP capabilities are optimized, planners gain reliable signals, production schedules stabilize, and high value inventory is released back into working capital.

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Aerospace and Defense leaders improving mission readiness and supply chain efficiency through SAP optimization

Where Precision, Readiness, and Performance Converge

Aerospace and Defense (A&D) organizations operate under extreme conditions where precision, reliability, and operational readiness define success. Yet even in highly engineered environments, inefficiencies often hide within the supply chain: excessive buffers, disconnected planning, inconsistent master data, and underutilized SAP capabilities that constrain responsiveness and profitability.

Reveal works with A&D leaders turn their SAP environment into a command center for performance integrating supply chain visibility, maintenance readiness, and production agility through our proven oVo® Methodology.

Challenges Facing Aerospace & Defense Leaders

Complex, Compliance-Driven Supply Chains
Multiple product configurations, export controls, and traceability requirements add layers of complexity that many SAP systems aren’t fully optimized to manage.
Long Lead Times & Volatile Demand
Forecast inaccuracies and material shortages disrupt schedules and readiness, eroding trust in MRP and driving costly manual intervention.
Fragmented Maintenance & Production Planning
Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) and production environments often run as separate processes, creating bottlenecks, duplicated effort, and inventory distortion.
High Cost of Downtime
When assets, components, or materials aren’t available on time, operational readiness and customer delivery are at risk impacting both margins and mission objectives.

Turning SAP into a Readiness Engine

Reveal’s oVo® Methodology (Assess → Transform → Sustain) aligns data, process, and behavior inside SAP so leaders can:

Trust the plan generated by MRP and exception monitors
Synchronize maintenance and production for maximum uptime
Simplify complex BOMs and routings to improve flow
Reduce excess inventory while improving service performance
Enable compliance and traceability without manual workarounds

Our hands-on approach integrates directly within SAP ECC or S/4HANA, no new systems, no black-box add-ons. We enable your people to make better, faster decisions within the system they already own.

Real-World Results in Aerospace & Defense

MTS, a leading global provider of high-performance testing and simulation systems for aerospace, automotive, and defense applications, faced extended lead times, inventory imbalance, and limited visibility into production and service operations. By partnering with Reveal, MTS transformed its SAP environment into a unified planning and execution platform reducing inventory, improving schedule adherence, and increasing service reliability.

What we discovered with our work with Reveal is that we had to go back to the basics and use the system as it was intended to do by utilizing Reveal’s SAP best practices training & education. — President, Eden Prairie, MN

Working with Industry Innovators

Today, Reveal partners with leading global aerospace and defense manufacturers, systems integrators, and advanced technology firms to strengthen supply chain performance and operational readiness across engineering, manufacturing, and sustainment environments.

Ready to Strengthen Your Supply Chain Command?

Your mission demands precision. Your SAP system can deliver it. Reveal helps Aerospace & Defense organizations achieve operational readiness, unlock hidden profit, and ensure every component, asset, and process performs at mission speed.

Contact us or complete a Supply Chain Self-Assessment to see where your readiness gaps lie and how to close them.

Success Stories

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MTS Systems Corporation

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Q&A

Q

How can SAP improve supply chain visibility and operational readiness in Aerospace and Defense

A

SAP provides end-to-end visibility across engineering, procurement, production, maintenance, and quality. When configured and governed correctly, SAP enables A&D organizations to trust MRP signals, manage long lead-time components more effectively, improve traceability for compliance, and align MRO and production planning to support readiness objectives. The key is ensuring behaviors, data, and processes are aligned with how SAP is designed to function.

Q

What SAP capabilities are most underutilized in Aerospace and Defense supply chains?

A

Many A&D manufacturers struggle to fully leverage exception management, advanced ATP, planning strategies, MRP configuration, and serialization or batch-level traceability. These gaps often lead to spreadsheet-driven workarounds, inflated inventory, and schedule instability. When these SAP capabilities are optimized, planners gain reliable signals, production schedules stabilize, and high-value inventory is released back into working capital.

Q

How can SAP help Aerospace and Defense organizations manage long lead times and production complexity?

A

SAP supports long-horizon planning, multi-level BOM management, capacity modeling, and real-time exception monitoring, which are critical in environments with complex assemblies and extended supplier lead times. When these capabilities are configured and used correctly, planners can identify shortages earlier, stabilize production schedules, and maintain readiness across programs and product lines.