Keeping capital assets flying or rolling is an increasingly expensive challenge for transportation companies, totaling up to 25% of a carrier's total operating costs. Supply chain inefficiencies can lead to longer turn times, increased labor costs and fewer aircraft in the air or trucks or railcars in motion.

The Teradata MRO Supply Chain Sustainment solution enables companies to reduce waste and labor costs, streamline procedures and anticipate non-routine events, improving the mission-readiness and maintenance reliability of assets and components. Teradata has partnered with BearingPoint®, one of the world's largest business consulting, systems integration and managed services firms, and Business Objects, the world's leading business intelligence software company, to provide a single source of up-to-date information of all the data required for decision making and analysis in MRO.

Together, these three partners have developed a best-in-breed MRO Supply Chain Sustainment solution that:

• Delivers a single repository of maintenance event data, including the history and detail you need
• Provides a flexible BI platform tailored to meet the needs of operations, financial and executive users
• Builds on the accumulated experience of large MRO implementations

This solution, already in use at a variety of commercial aviation, defense and manufacturing sites around the world, effectively highlights procedural problems and supply chain inefficiencies to produce:

• Increased asset utilization, with improved readiness, increased flexibility and availability
• Inventory reduction, with improved in-stock availability, higher turns and better vendor management
• Higher labor productivity, with better accountability and improved coordination and anticipation

BearingPoint is one of the world's largest business consulting, systems integration and managed services firms serving Global 2000 companies, medium-sized businesses, government agencies and other organizations. BearingPoint provides business and technology strategy, systems design, architecture, applications implementation, network infrastructure, systems integration and managed services.

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence software company, with more than 35,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500, and the leading BI supplier to the U.S. government, including the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and other aerospace and defense organizations.

Teradata has best-of-breed MRO implementations at the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy, the U.K. Ministry of Defense, Boeing, and various commercial airline and rail operators. The USAF system, developed and implemented jointly with BearingPoint and Business Objects, encompasses more than two dozen business functions. Other implementations focus on fleet readiness, reliability and financial/affordability data.