Case Study: Airbus Defence and Space achieves real-time financial visibility and 3–4x faster closes with SAP HANA

Gaining an Eagle Eye for Financial Processes with SAP S/4HANA

Airbus DS Optronics, a Germany-based maker of optoelectronic devices for military and aerospace applications, needed real-time visibility into financial and project data to support fast, accurate decision making. Manual, slow reporting processes left figures up to days out of date and hindered management meetings and forecasting.

By migrating from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA with SAP Consulting, the company automated finance-controlling reconciliation and enabled instant access to key metrics and sales forecasts. The move cut monthly closes to about 1.5 days (annual close to 4 days), sped up financial closing 3–4×, reduced data volume by 75%, limited downtime to one weekend, and freed controllers to focus on strategic advisory work.

Airbus Defence and Space

Jochen Scheuerer

Director of Information Technology