Malaysia Airlines inks IT solutions deal with Ramco Systems

SUBANG, MALAYSIA & CHENNAI, INDIA: Malaysia Airlines announced a strategic partnership with Chennai based Ramco Systems, an IT solutions provider, for a suite of critical enterprise-wide engineering solutions that includes aircraft maintenance, maintenance service sales, operational, human resources and financial functions.

This advanced solution which integrates business processes and people, company-wide, will serve the entire engineering functions for Malaysia Airlines group including Firefly, MASwings and MASkargo, and also support its Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services.

The implementation allows Malaysia Airlines to operate state-of-the-art aviation business processes to improve and optimise fleet management and give advance updates on MRO and engineering matters, facilitating decision-making on both desk-top and mobile devices.

Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, group CEO of Malaysia Airlines, said: "We look forward to achieving a higher level of efficiency with the Ramco MRO enterprise solution to change the way our engineering and maintenance operations works. By integrating business processes and people, our E&M operations will become a more connected organisation. In today's competitive market, it is important to leverage on new technology to attain levels of productivity and efficiency so that we are at par with leading MRO around the world."

With the aviation industry facing intense competition and pressure on yields, Malaysia Airlines is transforming a suite of critical functions from the tarmac to the corporate HQ. The Ramco ERP solution provides significant cost and operational improvements to the client.