SASPF

Standard Application Software Product Families (SASPF) is a Bundeswehr project to introduce standard business software from SAP SE ( SAP R / 3 or mySAP , ERP , industry software solutions IS-DFPS (Defense Forces & Public Security), as well as business information Warehouse and other solutions based on SAP NetWeaver ). There are also complementary products to cover special requirements, for example in graphic support ( GIS , CAD , CAFM ) or in the context of e-procurement .

aims

In view of the budgetary situation of the public sector in general and the Bundeswehr in particular, the Bundeswehr should be more economically oriented and costs significantly reduced: In the course of this, business processes have been optimized since 2006 and the Bundeswehr's IT landscape with its isolated solutions , media breaks and redundant data storage renewed. The project is therefore closely related to the Hercules IT project of the Bundeswehr .

The main processes of the Bundeswehr process model in which SASPF is used are:

• Bundeswehr planning
• Controlling
• health care
• Individual training
• Infrastructure / environmental protection
• organization
• human Resource
• Accounting
• Armaments / logistics

Project structure

The project is divided into the areas

• PZO (process organizations): model processes with the help of the ARIS tool set
• RealOrg (implementation organization): technically implements the modeled processes in the SAP system
• EFO (introductory organizations): implement the processes implemented in the software in the affected units and departments
• Product management: controls the use of the applications
• Project Steering Committee (PLA) in the Ministry of Defense BMVg : controls the project
• BWI service group: is responsible for the area-wide rollout for 45,000 users. In addition, the BWI trains the users of the system and operates the procedures in their data centers.

With the sub-project SDP (Strategic Development Project), the Bundeswehr has entered into a strategic partnership with SAP . The goal: to bring armed forces-specific issues into a special industry solution (Defense & Security) within the SAP standard software.

Participating companies

In addition to BWI GmbH and SAP SE , the SASPF project includes a. contractually involved:

• LIGHTHOUSE MCS GmbH
• EADS
• IABG
• IDS Scheer
• IBM
• Accenture
• Informatica
• Serco

Use and costs

At the beginning of 2012, more than 45,000 members of the armed forces were working in the SASPF's SAP system, sometimes more than 8,000 users at the same time. The expenditure for the integrated system up to the end of December 2008 was given as 928 million euros. A further 609 million euros are planned in the federal budget from 2009. The overall project has a budget of 2.142 billion euros until 2016. In 2009, SASPF was introduced into the first major unit in the army. In 2010 the second major association was equipped with the logistic SASPF. Since January 2011 (KFOR) and March 2011 (Afghanistan), SASPF has also been deployed abroad.

Used modules

For data protection reasons, SAP uses the following modules on two separate clients :

• Client for human resource management and
• Client for materials management / maintenance with the modules
  • Finance / Accounting (Financial Accounting (FI))
  • Cost accounting ( Controlling (CO))
  • Materials management
  • Industry solution IS-DFPS (Defense Forces & Public Security)
  • Bundeswehr-specific applications (BWD)

criticism

In 2003 the case of the Bundeswehr major Florian Pfaff attracted public attention , who viewed his work in the SASPF project as indirect support for the Iraq war and therefore refused to work for reasons of conscience.

Within the Bundeswehr, SASPF was repeatedly criticized in various briefings by the Armed Forces Commissioner: "During a troop visit to Nörvenich, soldiers criticized the flight operations of the EUROFIGHTER weapons system being restricted by the use of SASPF." The "suboptimal user interfaces and the complexity of the system" are also criticized.

literature

• Claudia Negrini: Digital perspective. In: Y. - Magazine of the Bundeswehr. Edition March 2006, p. 74ff

Web links

• Youtube video about SASPF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/16/115/1611574.pdf
2. ↑ http://www.deutschesheer.de/portal/a/1div/aktuel/nachrichten/jahr2010/februar2010
3. ↑ http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/themen/Bundeswehr/pfaff.html
4. ↑ https://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/19/072/1907200.pdf
5. ↑ https://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/19/007/1900700.pdf
6. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE: Bundeswehr: Problems in dealing with SASPF software. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .