Industry Overview
Meeting the A&D industry’s unique regulatory and transformation challenges
Infor understands the pressure aerospace, defense, and government contractors face. These organizations need to continuously innovate, invest, and deliver profitability against a backdrop of strict regulations, increasing security threats, geo-political change, supply chain complexity, and long planning cycles.
Our product and delivery teams provide deep and specialized industry experience to help our customers meet these challenges and others – head on.
Benefits
Key benefits of our aerospace and defense solutions
Continuous A&D innovation
Speed up product development. Increase flexibility with greater process efficiency and workflow automation – and leverage actionable insights based on in-service data.
Enhanced cybersecurity & compliance
Mitigate risk with pre-configured, certified compliance support for trade, IT, cybersecurity, and government regulations (ITAR, FAR, MMAS for DFARS, CMMC2, FedRamp).
Greater insight into production & supply
Get easy access to the information you need to improve decision-making. Leverage faster and more comprehensive data integration, processing, and analysis.
Improved program delivery & profitability
Keep projects and expenses on track with specific A&D KPIs and comprehensive financial reporting, planning, analysis, quality assurance, and cost tracking.
Infor CloudSuite Aerospace & Defense
Cloud solutions built for the aerospace and defense industry
Infor CloudSuite Aerospace & Defense is a portfolio of cloud solutions built to help A&D manufacturers, contractors, and service providers meet today’s critical demands. These solutions – including a powerful, highly secure ERP – offer industry-specific workflows and processes, such as contract management and flow-down, supplier collaboration, co-mingling, cost tracking with project pegging, and much more.
Sub-industries
Catering to your specific A&D industry needs
Defense industries
Infor’s Defense solutions, including a GovCloud ERP for the United States, enables you to meet rigorous regulatory, security, and safety standards for low-volume, engineer-to-order, and high variability production operations. Our solutions support robust traceability for regulatory compliance, extensive in-house and sub-contracted operations, multi-site cost visibility, digital service records, and efficient after-market service management.
Commercial aerospace
Commercial aerospace manufacturers face strict challenges, including complex supply chains, regulatory compliance, long project delivery times, and mixed-mode manufacturing. Infor solutions provide extensive capabilities that help shorten development and delivery times, improve processes and workflows, and automate tasks. Gain more efficient operations, productive teams, and comprehensive visibility across your supply network.
Space
Infor excels in assisting space sector customers who need to deliver low-volume, engineer-to-order projects with high product variability and inventory costs. Our solutions cover space launch vehicles, satellites, spacecraft, and ground systems that require support for mixed-mode manufacturing, projects with long lead times, extended project lifecycles, and tightly controlled program delivery.
Explore aerospace and defense software solutions
See how Infor CloudSuite Aerospace & Defense solutions can help you drive continuous innovation – while improving compliance, quality, security, and reliability.
- Cloud ERP solutions for aerospace and defense
- A&D cybersecurity and regulatory compliance
- A&D supply chain management
- A&D program profitability
- Aerospace and defense PLM
- Service operations
- Government contracting
Cloud ERP solutions for aerospace and defense
Connect and streamline your operations – and sidestep costly disruptions – with comprehensive, highly secure ERPs built for aerospace, space, and defense organizations, including AWS GovCloud (U.S. only). Take advantage of rich, built-in functionality that supports product innovation, strict cybersecurity and regulatory compliance, supply chain resilience, quality control, program profitability, customer contract obligations, and more.
- Optimize financial reporting, planning, and analysis
- Navigate stringent regulations and meet CMMC, ITAR, DFARS and other compliance requirements
- Achieve profitability through accurate contracts and invoicing
- Gain efficient program and project execution, and control multi-tiered supply chains with the agility to respond quickly to disruptions
Resources
See how our ERP for A&D software can help you implement proven cybersecurity practices and achieve CMMC 2.0 compliance.
GenAI is built into our ERP software. Use it to monitor and optimize A&D projects – including costs and schedules – in real time.
Learn more about built-in GenAI
Discover how Infor CloudSuite Aerospace & Defense keeps your business compliant, secure, and profitable.
Read about key considerations for delivering a modern, cloud-based ERP solution that meets stringent aerospace and defense requirements.
Read the white paper
Explore ERP for A&D
A&D cybersecurity and regulatory compliance
Track, audit, and adhere to stringent quality control, regulation compliance, and cybersecurity requirements.
- Comply with global trade and regulatory requirements, including hard controls for sanction list screening, end-user statements, and import and export licenses
- Implement proven and sound cybersecurity practices, including CMMC2 compliance
- Track, audit, and adhere to stringent quality controls, including compliance with the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) and Material Management and Accounting System (MMAS) standards
- Ensure requirements are passed to certified suppliers to maintain compliance through contract flow down
- Meet AS 9100 requirements with embedded quality management
- Take advantage of deployment options that include AWS Cloud, AWS GovCloud (US only), on-premise, and hybrid deployments
Resources
Read our executive brief describing support for the latest Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).
Access the guide
Get the latest updates and developments relating to CMMC 2.0 and what contractors must do now.
Watch the webinar
Join Infor and strategic partner BDO to explore how Infor’s SaaS ERP solution for aerospace and defense can support your compliance with the DFARS Business System Rule.
Watch the webinar
A&D supply chain management
Build a more resilient aerospace and defense supply chain and manage your complexity and risk. Gain efficient program and project execution – and control multi-tiered supply chains – gaining the agility to respond quickly to supply chain shortages and disruptions.
- Run your entire business – every department, every site, and every country – on one platform
- Ensure timely demand fulfilment and optimized resource allocation
- Collaborate with multiple tiers of global suppliers to ensure timely supply meets orders and SLAs
- Comingle (e.g. project grouping) supply for different projects to increase economies of scale in the procurement process, reduce inventory levels, and retain project cost identity
- Exchange demand and supply orders in real-time to improve collaboration, visibility, and responsiveness
- Track orders, assets, inventory, and parts in real-time for up-to-date visibility throughout the supply chain
- Enable shop floor automation
Resources
Read a best practice guide for managing supply chain risk in aerospace and defense.
Explore our SCM software
A&D program profitability
In the aerospace and defense industry, success depends on delivering program profitability across a series of complex projects. Make sense of the often error-prone processes of bidding, contracting, execution, invoicing, and revenue recognition with a solution built to drive efficiency with full contract and program/project management capabilities.
- Manage multiple contracts, including cost-plus and revenue recognition methods
- Ensure project management visibility and leverage CLIN definition and contract flow-downs with linked work breakdown structures
- Meet critical Cost Accounting Standards and global trade standards and compliance
- Support DCAA audits with built-in capabilities to maintain all contracts and costing requirements
- Ensure requirements are passed to certified suppliers to maintain compliance through contract flow down
Aerospace and defense PLM
Bring innovative aerospace and defense products to market faster – and consistently deliver to the highest quality standards – with our PLM software for discrete manufacturers. Improve design efficiency, reduce the cost of new product introductions, and control engineering changes throughout the complete product and project lifecycle.
- Manage BOMs “as designed”, “as built” and “as maintained” to stay on top of revisions
- Capture real-time quality data and leverage statistical process control (SPC) to ensure in-spec machine performance
- Meet the highest quality standards and comply with regulations such as AS9100 and FRACAS
- Gain full visibility throughout the entire PLM lifecycle – from initial concept to production and retirement
- Integrate with your ERP, CAD, and manufacturing systems – and easily share product information with your network
Resources
Learn more about what an integrated PLM and ERP system can do.
Read the brochure
Have a look at our white paper describing why an integrated PLM and ERP can be a strategic weapon.
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Service operations
Turn your service operation into a revenue center by leveraging digital technology and data insights to manage your service and MRO operations.
- Prevent costly maintenance and downtime through optimized planning, scheduling, resolution time and resources.
- Track as-maintained history, parts, and components replaced or serviced - following strict guidelines
- Analyze service requirements to better anticipate future preventive maintenance needs
- Maintain an optimal inventory of replacement parts to avoid stockouts and resolve service requests quickly
- Manage depot repair and field service resource planning and scheduling
- Leverage support for Non-Conformance Material Report functionality, FRACAS, first article inspection, and Certificates of Conformity
Resources
Read our blog on the need for digitalization in the aerospace and defense industry.
Government contracting
Our modern, integrated suite of cloud applications can help government contractors connect every process and achieve business goals through cost visibility, operational efficiency, and robust supply management. Improve business resilience, now and in the future, by managing production complexity, ensuring regulatory and security compliance, and supporting industry quality standards during uncertain times.
- Flexibly manage commercial and government customers with multi-entity functionality that supports your organizational and cost accounting structure
- Enable CMMC, export controls, DFARS business systems, and regulatory requirements compliance under the Federal Acquisition Regulation and agency supplements
- Leverage robust project-based accounting capabilities to accumulate, estimate, and report costs to the U.S. Government
CUSTOMER STORIES
Real-world A&D customer success
Resources
Aerospace and defense industry insights
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