IPSD
SAP Integrated Product Support for DefenseThe challenge
Master data is provided by system manufacturers to enable their military customers to maintain their systems during the in-service phase. This requires many master data objects to be created and maintained in the customer’s ERP system.
Working with military master data and logistics data on a daily basis presents a number of challenges. Data is often provided in a variety of formats, such as ASD and Excel, so manual quality checks are required to ensure data quality. Quality and consistency must also be checked against specifications such as the ASD-S-Series. Other issues include data storage, export and transfer to SAP systems.
Our solution
Integrated Product Support for Defense (IPSD) is a content management system for armed forces and industrial partners to import and maintain the master data of complex military systems such as aircraft, helicopters, tanks and ships.
The focus of IPSD is to import, validate and review spare parts master data according to the ASD specifications Material Management (S2000M) as well as LSA Datasets (S3000L) and IETD Publications (S1000D). IPSD generates change requests for SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) to create or update master records in SAP Material Management and SAP Enterprise Asset Management.
IPSD is deployed on premise – we set up, configure and customise your IPSD solution by:
- Analysing your processes
- Planning and supporting implementation
- Training users
- Providing quality rules in the form of rulesets for data quality checks
- Customising adapters for importing and exporting your master data
- Customising reports for performing analyses
- Providing maintenance support during the operational phase
Features and benefits
Features
- Import and export master data (spare parts, LSA datasets, technical documentation)
- Quality checks using the integrated IPSD Rule Engine
- Generation of change requests for SAP MDG to create or update master records
- Complete history of data changes throughout the entire lifecycle of a weapons system, stored in a cross-specification database
- Creation of codification requests in N-CORE
- Integrated security measures including authentication methods and encrypted communication
Benefits
- Improved data quality
- Automated process improves efficiency and reduces manual workload
- Data enrichment with information from external systems such as N-CORE
- Use of synergy effects between different specifications (S1000D, S2000M, S3000L)
- Customisable adapter structure for import and export of master data
- Customisable generation of reports/analyses using the integrated IPSD Report Engine
- Not limited to ASD data formats
- Simple and intuitive handling
- Stand-alone solution without SAP system connection is also available
