# Aerospace Industry Case Study

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- Published: 2025-03-24T15:56:15-05:30
- Author: admin@sapsol.com

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### Deliver system and process integration allowing flow of product data across all functions involved in the development and supply chain

###### Client Profile

The Client is aerospace major and world’s third largest civil aircraft manufacturer.
Manufactures of amphibious , business jet and commercial aircraft.

###### Business Situation

 Highly customized and integrated process

 No single system across different types of aircraft manufactured some of which 
could be leveraged from existing process and applications.

 Manual planning for CAD and Non-CAD design PLM, PDM data with many interfaces.

 Lack of Visibility and Mfg/SC decision making to reduce cycle time.

 Large number of legacy systems where the data bases and structures have evolved
over many years with approaching date for out of maintenance .

###### Key Challenges

 Diverse manufacturing techniques

 Complex Org Functions and Roles

 Over 50K parts in scope .

 Complex BOM ,Routings , work centers.

 A need was to have complete collaborative system to manage design data ( Parts,
Documents, Engineering bill of materials ) , engineering changes

 Non-integrated CAD and Non-CAD PLM and PDM with cross functional and hierarchical
workflow.

 Environment has huge data volumes with 80% ETL centricity using complex Business
Rules.

###### SAPSOL Deliverables

 Integrate process and Identify legacy data complexities early.

 Gather key requirements, understand current process complexities and problematic
areas and identify gaps for design., type to design, manufacturing and completion
centers .

 Refine digital dashboard for options , design approvals, compliance certifications
using SAP supply chain functions.

 Analyze and optimize the data migration strategy, specially for Methods data cleansing
activities.

 Overall scope prioritized by business value.

 Integrated PDM,PLM, SRM early with seamless workflow.

 Focused on data quality and data synchronization.

 Knowledge transition focus for business rules in ETL with Validation of complex
objects and ETL tools.