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The industry where traceability is not an option.
A program spans decades, every part carries a serial number, and data sovereignty weighs on every architecture choice. In aerospace and defense, the information system does more than support the manufacturer: it is part of the contractual commitment. We build the SAP core to that standard.
The context
Long cycles, absolute requirements.
Few sectors combine so many constraints: multi-year programs whose profitability hinges on the cost at completion, a subcontracting chain layered across several tiers, low-volume production where each unit has its own history, and data whose location, access and movement are design questions in their own right. The ERP is at once the tool that steers industrial operations and a component of the compliance framework. It is precisely this dual role that the SAP transformation has to take on.
The stakes
What is at stake in your programs.
Long programs under control
Steering multi-year contracts: cost at completion, contractual milestones, physical and financial progress reconciled, without waiting for the program review to discover the slippage.
Configuration & unit traceability
Tracking every serial number, its applicable configuration and its history, from component to delivered assembly, a precondition for meeting airworthiness requirements. For MRO and aviation support, see our Energy & Transport → page.
Multi-tier subcontracting chain
Orchestrating procurement and flows across several tiers of suppliers, with the visibility needed to meet the prime contractor’s milestones without losing control of the risks.
Confidentiality & compartmentalization
Designing environments where sensitive scopes are segregated, access is logged and clearances are respected, in the system as well as in the team that builds it.
Data sovereignty
Deciding where data resides, who can access it and through which infrastructure it travels: in this sector, architecture is a sovereignty choice before it is a technical one.
Export controls
Building export-control constraints on technical data and flows into the design from day one: a parameter of the system’s design, not an after-the-fact check.
The processes involved
From R&D to in-service support.
- R&D & project management
Structuring programs into projects that can genuinely be steered: work packages, budgets, commitments, progress and cost at completion on a single set of reference data, from early-stage studies to delivery.
- Multi-tier procurement
Sourcing, contracts and supply across a layered subcontracting chain, with a consolidated view of the supplier panel, spend and critical dependencies.
- Low-volume production
Unit or small-batch manufacturing, configuration management, tracking of serial numbers and build records: every unit produced has its own identity and history.
- Program finance
Revenue recognition at the pace of milestones, margins at completion, program cash flow: finance that speaks the language of long contracts.
- In-service support
The natural extension of the program: serialized parts, airworthiness, MRO. This scope is covered in detail on our Energy & Transport → page.
SAP solutions
The SAP solutions for your sector.
We assemble the solutions of the SAP ecosystem around your programs, never the other way around.
Many manufacturers in the sector still run on a proven ECC core: we work on your existing landscape as well as on the S/4HANA trajectory, at the pace your programs allow.
The KOORTIS difference
Consultants made for these environments.
Working in aerospace and defense takes more than knowing SAP: it takes knowing how to operate in sensitive environments. Our consultants are security-clearable, at ease with compartmentalized scopes, strict access rules and the discretion these contexts demand. We build teams that meet your security requirements, and we keep them in place for the full length of your programs.
On sensitive ground
Let’s talk about your programs.
A first conversation, at the appropriate level of confidentiality, to map your processes, your application landscape and the constraints of your environments.
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