E-business platform helps NASA streamline financial management

NASA Tech Briefs, Jun 2002

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To streamline NASA's business processes, the agency's Integrated Financial Management (IFM) Program utilized mySAP.com(R), an e-business platform designed to increase operational effectiveness. IFM is the organization aimed at improving NASA's financial, physical, and human resources management processes. The IFM Program team has conducted demonstration testing on relevant mySAP.com solutions, such as those designed for human resources, budget planning formulation, and product lifecycle management.

Recently, NASA purchased an additional 12,600 licenses for the mySAP.com suite, doubling the number of users. SAP solutions will help meet the agency's user requirements for the remaining NASA IFM Program modules - specifically, budget planning and formulation; integrated asset management including logistics, facilities, environmental and aircraft; and human resources and payroll.

"With the tightly integrated solutions of SAP, NASA will have consistent cross-agency processes, informed by best practices, that will allow us to access and assemble vital information quickly and effectively," said Mike Mann, program manager of NASA's IFM Program. A combined team of NASA and SAP employees are implementing the platform at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and will extend the system to the remaining centers upon completion.

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