This sector is at the stage of reconstructing the infrastructure, destroyed in the period of Russia`s transition to market economy.

Low profitability of machine-building enterprises and insufficient financing lead to necessity to search for new forms of investment attraction, creation of mixed financial-industrial groups consisting not only of machine-building enterprises, but also of enterprises-consumers of mechanical engineering products. Such vertically integrated holdings may be viewed as the «engine» of mechanical engineering reconstruction in Russia.

We think that the key business requirements of enterprises in the mechanical engineering and military & industrial sector now are: strategic manageability of business, optimization of direct and indirect costs, including more effective use of the salary fund, increase of capital productivity of the production equipment, enhancing the quality of ready products, reduction of the life cycle of development and production of new articles, timely elaboration of authentic accounting.

Based on the above business requirements, Borlas Consulting Group developed a program «Borlas: Mechanical engineering», which takes into account specifics of the mechanical engineering sector and is based on the systems of application-specific Oracle E-Business Suite solutions (Oracle Applications): «strategic planning and budgeting», «corporate finance management and daily business analysis», «supply chain management: production, provision, sale», «product life cycle management», «project production», «workshop planning and dispatching», «continuous quality management», «equipment maintenance and repair», «creation of efficient personnel motivation systems».

Considering financial possibilities and distinctive features of business processes of mechanical engineering enterprises, as well as to save funds and reduce risks, «Borlas: Mechanical engineering» program stipulates to start deployment with more effective for a specific enterprise solutions (20% of functionality assure 80% of effectiveness), gradually increase functionality, continuously enhance and make a quantitative estimate of improvements at each step of deployment; this program ensures transparency and consistency of the implementation of application-specific solutions.

Enterprises of mechanical engineering and military & industrial sector can be literally considered the most complex from the point of view of realization of «business projects with IT component». Great variety of business processes and high degree of their detailing result in special requirements not only to software functionalities, but also to the qualification of consultants. In its practice Borlas Consulting Group uses extended functionalities of Oracle E-Business Suite and has an experienced team of consultants, able to adapt each separate solution in such way as to minimize re-adaptation of the core of the system in case of adding other solutions.

«Borlas: Mechanical engineering» program covers a series of projects on creation of integrated management system for JSC Experimental design bureau of Sukhoi, one of the key enterprises in aircraft construction in Russia. The implemented functionalities of Experimental design bureau include the following: information-analytical servicing of the management, management of corporate planning, project, contract, production, finance, procurement, HR, intellectual activities, document circulation, information security and IT infrastructure.

In 2006 Expert RA rating agency named Borlas Consulting Group a leader in implementation of corporate management information systems in the «Mechanical engineering and metal processing» sector (rating «Map of Russian audit and consulting», October 2006, section «Information technologies — Management consulting»).