The key global trends shaping defense and security include the reprioritization of budget, the impact of supply chain disruptions, the rise of asymmetric threats and the evolving nature of defense priorities.
The defense industry was also impacted by current global tensions, driving shifts in production priorities and defense spending.
Defense Specific Characteristics
Defense is an "industry of industries" - that very sentence is the secret sauce of our growth potential. Defense Forces got hospitals, aviation, R&D, own real-estate agencies, own logistics bodies, new demands like "gender equality", "lower CO2 footprint", "blackout resilience", and of course the wide field of "Trust".
Defense Forces still have to operate, when all other parts of a society are breaking down autarky, resilience, and sustainability are key to them if they are called in as "ultima ratio".
That means for us - widen focus even outside our "solution space" and to enable our sales force to reach other buying centers outside the Customer Competence Centers.
- Defense is an "industry of industries".
- Defense business is focused on weapon systems and invests heavily in innovation, particularly in the soldier/weapon system space.
- Defense is a global business depending on a high level of collaboration and experience exchange.
Defense Forces are part of wider ecosystems – from Factory to Foxhole
Defense consumes a young workforce. The average age in Defense IT is significantly older.
How Does SAP Defense Solution Benefit Military Customers?
The particular strengths of this component are:
- End-to-end mapping of the organizational structures for the domestic base, operations, and exercises
- Complete process chains including planning, implementation, and execution.
- Provision of information and evaluation options
- Integration of personnel information, material information, and resource management
- Organizational flexibility during day-to-day operations.
- Changes to organizational structures and resource requirements are taken into account and implemented immediately in downstream processes.
- Offline capabilities (functions can be used even if communication to a leading system is broken temporarily) for individual organizational units thanks to a decentralized system architecture that is also designed for the integration of mobile applications
- Integration in the standard processes of the SAP system (Accounting, Human Resources, Logistics, and so on)
- Component-specific workflows, object status and authorization management
