Monday, July 14, 2008
Axon today announced it has signed a co-development agreement with SAP AG for the integration of a new maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business solution with the SAP(R) ERP application for aviation and aerospace organizations. The new MRO industry solution, called iMRO.iMRO is intended to improve productivity and planner visibility and reduce variations encountered between planning and operations, allowing higher asset utilizations to be realized for large and small airlines, manufacturers and third-party MRO providers. iMRO, together with MRO solutions from SAP, will deliver built-in best practices for maintenance engineering, maintenance planning, maintenance operations and business support processes.iMRO is an industry-specific add-on for SAP ERP, which will expand and enhance the SAP user interface with dedicated applications for users such as maintenance technicians, planners and engineers to improve productivity, data accuracy and to cut down the unexpected process variations normally accepted by complex asset maintenance businesses.The iMRO solution used together with SAP ERP is likely to enable a rich user experience for users in areas such as line maintenance, hangar operations, engine overhaul, component repair, spares, customer support, configuration management, fleet management, financials, supply chain management, human capital management and performance-based contracting. Significant improvements in data accuracy, productivity and asset or aircraft utilization may be realized by deploying Axon's iMRO with SAP ERP.Customers Already Benefit From Use of Solutions from Axon and SAPAxon MRO solutions are currently being used with SAP applications to great benefit at various airline, manufacturing and third-party maintenance companies including Goodrich."Goodrich Corporation has selected both SAP and Axon as strategic IT partners for our business transformation over the next few years," said Steve Hagood, Chief Information Officer, Goodrich Corp. "We are already benefiting from Axon's aerospace-specific MRO solutions with faster and easier implementations of SAP solutions for MRO around the world."