- High ship maintenance costs
- Long maintenance periods due to poor ability to plan
- Need for better control of valuable resources
- Do more with less: Manpower reductions looming with no corresponding requirement reductions
- Too many legacy stovepipe systems, costly to maintain and synchronize
- Need for financial fidelity within a reasonable time
- Large backlog of maintenance requirements
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- Implemented a 12-module SAP ERP solution (FI/CO/MM/PM/HR/PS/etc.)
- Built interfaces to reduced number of legacy systems
- Single database combined data from multiple stovepiped databases
- First ever system to include nuclear information handling requirements
- Rolled out the solution globally to 6000 users
- Single FM system for all intermediate-level ship maintenance
- Foreign currency capability
- One data center with fully operational disaster recovery site
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- Allowed Navy to do more maintenance with less people
- Quality financial information in real time
- Reduced cost of availabilities by reducing maintenance time
- 16% increase in maintenance throughput significantly reducing backlog
- Total visibility of resources improved resource allocation and tradeoff decisions
- Standardized processes across both fleets were catalyst for significant process improvements
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