AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE

Contract to compliance on one backbone

An aerospace or defense program is a set of promises: to the prime or the agency, to the quality system, and to the auditor who will eventually ask you to prove both. Keeping those promises across separate contract, engineering, production and quality systems is where programs bleed margin and audit findings appear.

Visibility ERP structures the work the way the contract is written. Each contract runs as its own P&L in project accounting, with work breakdown structures that drive MRP and production planning rather than sitting beside it. Requirements flow down from the contract through sales orders to work orders, so the shop floor executes what the program office committed. Engineering changes move through formal change control across BOMs, routings and revisions, which means a revision on the drawing is a revision in the plan, the buy and the build.

Progress lives in the same record: percent-complete revenue, milestone and progress billing, and earned value management read from actual shop transactions, and program schedules stay coordinated through Microsoft Project integration.

Built for the audit, not scrambled for it

DCAA/CAS and AS9100 requirements are core Visibility ERP functionality, not bolt-ons. Serialized lot traceability accumulates on work orders and shop floor data as the work happens, quality inspection results attach to the operations that produced them, and documents link to the records they govern. ITAR-aware record handling keeps controlled data where it belongs.

When the customer or the agency audits, the evidence is the production record itself: who built it, from which lot, against which revision, inspected by whom. Nothing has to be reassembled from binders.

Common questions from aerospace and defense manufacturers

Does Visibility ERP support DCAA/CAS and AS9100 requirements?

Yes. Compliance with DCAA/CAS and AS9100 requirements is part of the system's core functionality: project accounting with earned value management, serialized lot traceability, revision-controlled engineering change control and integrated quality records.

How does contract flow-down work in the system?

Contract requirements carry from the contract structure through sales orders to the work orders that execute them, and quality data is collected at the operation level against those requirements. The paper trail builds itself during production instead of being assembled before an audit.

Can program schedules integrate with Microsoft Project?

Yes. Work breakdown structures in Visibility ERP integrate with Microsoft Project, so program-level scheduling and shop-level execution stay coordinated without duplicate maintenance.

How long does an implementation take?

Most implementations run four to six months, and they are delivered by the team that builds the product. Since 1988 we have never had a failed implementation, a record that matters in an industry where program risk is compliance risk.

Is it available in the cloud or on premise?

Both. The same browser-based system runs as SaaS hosted and managed by our team or on premise on your own infrastructure, whichever your security posture calls for.