A leading private equity-backed aerospace manufacturer and MRO provider, operating a global network of production and repair facilities, partnered with Reveal to unlock greater value from its existing SAP investment. Following Reveal’s ongoing Value optimization® (oVo) methodology, the organization empowered its supply chain and planning teams to fully leverage SAP capabilities, closing the gap between system potential and day-to-day business demands. The results were significant: inventory turns increased by 25%, working capital was released back into the business, and commitment dates became reliable enough for sales and planning teams to confidently stand behind. Beyond the immediate operational gains, the initiative improved schedule adherence, restored trust in SAP as the system of record, and provided leadership with a real-time view of capacity and constraints. With greater visibility, alignment, and execution discipline across the organization, the company established the foundation to pursue an additional $35 million inventory reduction target while embedding a sustainable, data-driven way of working.

The Challenge

The company had done everything right on paper. SAP was live, master data existed, and planners had tools. Yet the plant floor told a different story than the system did, and the gap had quietly become a strategic drag on growth and margin. Teams struggled with:

• Customer commitments made on gut feel rather than what SAP said was available, with planners padding promise dates they had learned not to trust.
• Manual workarounds and shadow spreadsheets that undermined confidence in the system.
• Limited visibility into true work center capacity, so schedules that looked stable on screen broke down the moment a part arrived late.
• Record-high inventory sitting alongside shortages of the specific components needed for next week's build.

The result was operational drift: rising working capital, unreliable schedules, and eroding trust in the very tools meant to run the business.

The Decision

Leadership recognized that fixing technical issues alone would not close the performance gap. To unlock SAP's true potential, the company needed to change how its people used it, making SAP a trusted business asset rather than an underutilized expense. Rather than launch another open-ended transformation program, leaders chose an execution-led engagement inside the SAP they already owned. Reveal was chosen to:

• Expose exactly where drift was constraining performance, using the company's own live SAP data.
• Rebuild trust in the numbers so teams could plan, schedule, and promise with confidence.
• Put execution and ownership in the hands of their own people, with every initiative tied to a measurable outcome.

The Transformation

Reveal embedded alongside the company's supply chain and planning leaders, applying its oVo® methodology to align people, processes, and SAP capabilities. The program included:

• Available to Promise Discipline: cleaning master data and aligning planning parameters with actual consumption so ATP dates became something the team could quote without padding.
• Schedule Attainment: tightening the link between planning assumptions and shop-floor reality, and giving supervisors the visibility to catch slippage before it cascaded.
• Inventory Optimization: rebuilding the planning logic that had allowed high stock and stockouts to coexist, reducing excess and dead stock while protecting availability.
• Work Center Visibility: replacing years-old capacity assumptions with actual throughput data across the network of work centers.
• Cultural Shift: empowering teams to own outcomes and trust the numbers, replacing reactive firefighting with disciplined execution.

The Results

This leading aerospace manufacturer realized measurable business impact:

• 25% Increase in Inventory Turns: releasing working capital, reducing carrying costs, and aligning stock with real demand.
• $35M Additional Inventory Reduction Target: the program and the systemic capability it built gave leadership the confidence to commit to a further reduction goal.
• Commitments the Team Could Stand Behind: ATP became a trusted engine, eliminating buffer padding, escalation calls, and the workaround spreadsheets that had crept back into daily use.
• From Reactive to Reliable Scheduling: fewer expedite fires and more predictable output, with schedules the organization could keep.
• Capacity Made Visible: actual performance data replaced legacy assumptions, giving supervisors, planners, and leadership a shared, accurate view of what the operation could really do.
• A Single Source of Truth: SAP became the trusted foundation for planning and promising, restoring confidence and collaboration across sales, planning, and operations.

This global aerospace leader's journey demonstrates how Reveal turns SAP from a system worked around into the backbone of how a business makes promises, manages capacity, and protects working capital. By unlocking hidden value in existing systems, aligning people and processes, and embedding sustainable change, Reveal helps companies free up millions in working capital and achieve enterprise-wide agility.

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