Japan Airlines International has officially launched “JAL Mighty”, a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for aviation maintenance. IBM Japan, IBM Business Consulting Services and SAP Japan Co., Ltd collaborated on the project to create a system to manage maintenance planning, quality control and parts inventory for approximately 160 aircraft, 460 engines, and 500,000parts.

Also equipped with 19 standard SAP modules to serve approximately 6,000 users including aircraft mechanics, the system is the largest ERP system for aviation maintenance in the world, JAL said.

The new SAP ERP system integrates approximately 100 business systems for maintenance planning, quality control and parts inventory for aircraft, as well as qualification management of aircraft mechanics into one SAP ERP package to realize business processes standardisation and real-timeinformation sharing.

SAP ERP for aviation maintenance is implemented at 17 airlines in the world including JAL. JAL Mighty is the world largest scale system implementationproject of this type to date.