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Enabling the Enterprise

BAE Systems has committed to transform itself through embracing e-Business to achieve:

    Process Improvement and Cost reduction
  • Enable end-user self-service through controlled web-based tools
  • Exploit investment in Exostar to improve requisition-to-pay processes with suppliers and customers
  • Give buyers easier access to BAE Systems' global purchase agreements
  • Help suppliers to reduce their marketing and transaction process costs.

    Closer working with customers and suppliers
  • Allow web-enabled collaborative working throughout the project life cycle
  • Develop closer relations and offer new web-based services
  • Reduce inventory by better exchange of schedule information.

    Exploit new opportunities both inside and outside the A&D industry
  • Develop an e-Business infrastructure and a level of maturity that allows us to identify and capture wholly new business opportunities.

This exciting transformation is impacting all areas of our supply chain, throughout a project lifecycle and will increasingly affect the way we do business with our customers, our suppliers and our partners.

Buying from BAE SYSTEMS
BAE Systems is using Exostar to receive and respond to orders from major customers including:

UK Ministry of Defence: Interoperability between DECS (Defence Electronic Commerce Service), the MoD's e-Commerce portal, and Exostar was established at the end of 2001 and BAE Systems is now receiving electronic purchase orders from our MoD customers as they are connected to DECS.

Lockheed Martin: Initial orders have been received by BAE Systems in North America via SupplierNet, Lockheed Martin's existing e-Commerce portal, and Lockheed Martin are in the process of migrating all BAE Systems as a supplier to Exostar by the end of 2004.

Boeing: Electronic trading between Boeing and BAE Systems began in 2003 and further contracts are transferring to Exostar during 2004.

Selling to BAE SYSTEMS
BAE Systems has introduced a web-based indirect procurement process to employees across the company. By the end of 2003, we completed deployment to some three thousand employees - providing them with the ability to source, order and pay for indirect goods and services with BAE Systems' core suppliers directly from their desktops.

The business has also started to connect priority production and scheduling systems to Exostar to enable integrated e-Commerce. The first of these businesses started procurement transactions via Exostar in the second half of 2002 and 2003. Other business groups are working to connect their systems during the course of 2004.

Working with BAE SYSTEMS
To meet the demands of today's increasingly complex product development, manufacturing and support projects, BAE Systems needs increasingly to be able to work in close collaboration with partners, suppliers and customers.

e-Collaboration is the term being used by BAE Systems to describe the bringing together of People, Processes and Information to work together in an harmonised way, throughout the product lifecycle (that is from concept and analysis, through design and development, manufacture, operational in-service and finally disposal), and supported by appropriate information systems.

BAE Systems is currently introducing Exostar’s ForumPass and other web-based services on several key projects. ForumPass provides project teams spanning multiple locations and organisations with a powerful tool to improve collaboration. Projects can significantly reduce travel, save time and improve information management, all helping to reduce cost and improve project team performance.

Further Information

  • Exostar - Visit www.exostar.com for full product information and details on how to register.

  • BAE Systems - contact your regular BAE Systems contact.
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