Case Study: Army of the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence achieves millions in annual savings through better demand planning with Software AG

Army Expects to Save Millions Per Year With Better Demand Planning

The U.K. Ministry of Defence’s Army faced a critical planning gap: decades of siloed systems, dozens of spreadsheets and inconsistent data prevented accurate equipment demand forecasting and costed activity planning. The result was wrong stock levels, poor equipment utilization, conflicting resource requests, excessive manual effort and avoidable costs—problems made more urgent by shrinking budgets and staffing.

To fix this, the MoD’s Project JANUS—led by Software AG in a multi‑vendor consortium—delivered a four‑month proof‑of‑concept using BPM, SOA and MDM technologies (webMethods, ARIS, CentraSite) to create a “golden record,” enforce governance, integrate systems and provide management dashboards. The solution improved forecasting and asset utilization, reduced planning effort and storage costs, cut waste, produced trusted costed activity plans and is estimated to save the Army millions per year, with potential reuse across the organisation.

Army of the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence

Paul W. Jaques

Director General, Logistics, Support & Equipment