Enterprise resource planning

摘要

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) has distinctive features when it comes to the aircraft maintenance environment. According to Dan Dutton, Vice President of Aerospace and Defence Product Management at IFS, in the aviation domain the whole ERP function is a very complex asset management matter. "What makes it peculiar is the depth of the configuration management requirements, the complexity brought by the need for parts tracking both on and off wing, the management of compliance to what is a relatively complex maintenance programme, the ongoing management of deferred maintenance and items that have impact on the functioning of aircraft systems as well as all the nuances that come around with the planning of both human and material resources," he says.