Military Logistics Information System (LIS)

Solution overview

ELEKS’ Logistics Information System helps defense organizations manage complex supply chains, inventories, procurement, and asset readiness in one integrated environment.

The solution consolidates fragmented processes, disconnected systems, and paper records into a single source of reliable, real-time data. This enhances visibility, speeds up supply operations, and improves accountability.

LIS can be adapted to an organization’s operational structure, security requirements, national regulations, and NATO standards.

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Why defense organizations
choose ELEKS for LIS

  • Proven with Ukraine's Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces
  • Accredited SAP partner with deep defense expertise
  • Delivery options to fit your requirements and budget
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The challenges a logistics information system is built to solve

  • Lack of real-time visibility into assets and inventory

    Defense organizations handle large inventories of equipment, spare parts, vehicles, and supplies at many locations and commands. Without real-time visibility, shortages can go unnoticed, assets may be used inefficiently, and procurement decisions might rely on old information.

  • Complex, fragmented supply chain management

    Military supply chains use many suppliers, procurement channels, warehouses, and distribution points, often under tight deadlines. Using separate systems to manage this complexity can cause delays, mistakes, and gaps in accountability, which can hurt mission readiness.

  • Lack of proper inventory tracking and control

    Tracking the amount, quality, location, and expiry dates of materials across a wide logistics network is essential, but difficult without the right tools. Too much or too little stock, or missed losses, increases risk and costs.

  • Poor integration between logistics, finance, and HR systems

    Many defense organizations use separate systems for logistics, finance, and personnel tasks. Without connecting these systems, staff must match records by hand, reports may be unreliable, and it is hard to know the real cost of operations.

  • Manual and paper-based logistics processes

    Many defense logistics tasks still rely on manual data entry, paper records, and spreadsheets. These methods are slow, can lead to mistakes, and add extra work for logistics staff who could focus on more important tasks.

  • Compliance with military standards and audit requirements

    Defense logistics must follow strict rules and audit requirements for buying, managing assets, and tracking finances. Without systems that clearly record transactions and can be traced, proving compliance is hard and time-consuming.

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Covering the full scope of defense
logistics operations

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Supply chain and resource management

LIS helps manage key defense resources efficiently, meeting all military logistics needs. It tracks items like spare parts, repair materials, food, clothing, ammunition, drones, medical supplies, protective gear, fuel, construction materials, and real estate. The system provides real-time updates on stock, demand, and resource distribution across units, warehouses, arsenals, and supply centers.

warehousing
Warehouse management
Procurement and financial management
Maintenance, repair, and overhaul
Force generation and deployment
International technical assistance
Analytics and reporting
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The technology stack behind LIS

SAP S/4HANA
The core LIS solution runs on SAP S/4HANA, giving you a reliable and scalable base for logistics, procurement, finance, asset management, and analytics. As an accredited SAP partner, ELEKS offers consulting, implementation, customization, integration, and support services.
Secure system architecture

ELEKS designs and configures the entire solution to keep your systems secure, stable, and compliant from the start. This includes hardware, infrastructure, operating systems, middleware, SAP environments, user roles, data protection, system interfaces, and separate areas for sensitive data.

Mobile technology

You can add online and offline mobile features to your warehouse operations. This lets your logistics team manage inventory, track movements, and process orders even when the connection is weak or unavailable, so work continues smoothly.

Analytics

With SAP-based analytics and reporting, your organization can spot shortages early, track supply levels, plan more accurately, and make faster, better decisions using up-to-date information.

Cloud and AI

ELEKS also offers cloud integration and AI-powered analytics as part of its custom logistics solutions. You can expand LIS with cloud services, advanced analytics, AI features, and custom apps when your operations and security needs allow.

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How we deliver the LIS solution

01
Discovery and requirements analysis 

We analyze existing logistics processes, systems, data sources, and operational challenges. Together with the customer’s stakeholders and key users, we define business, technical, security, and regulatory requirements.

02
Target solution and architecture design

ELEKS prepares the solution blueprint and designs the target architecture. This includes functional scope, system landscape, infrastructure, integrations, security model and migration approach.

03
Infrastructure preparation
We procure or configure the required hardware, operating systems, middleware, and SAP environments. We prepare the infrastructure according to the customer’s performance, availability, and information-security requirements.
04
Configuration and development

Our SAP specialists configure SAP S/4HANA and develop the required custom functionality. We also create interfaces with warehouse, financial, coding, ticketing, military and other customer systems.

05
Data migration

ELEKS cleans, maps and transfers information from legacy platforms into LIS. We validate master data, nomenclature, inventory records and other critical information before production launch.

06
Security and compliance

The solution is configured to comply with applicable legislation, internal defense requirements and relevant international military standards, including NATO STANAG where required. Roles and authorizations are defined to control access to sensitive information.

07
Testing and acceptance

We develop test scenarios and conduct functional, integration, performance and user-acceptance testing with customer representatives and key users. We also support the required security assessment and authorization-to-operate process.

08
Training and go-live

ELEKS delivers onsite and online training for administrators and users. Training materials can include user manuals, video lessons, knowledge tests and a dedicated Moodle-based learning platform. Following acceptance, we launch the system into production and support the transition from legacy processes.

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Support and continuous development

After go-live, ELEKS provides technical and functional support, system maintenance and continuous improvement. The solution can be expanded with new organizational units, logistics domains, integrations and functionality as the customer’s requirements evolve.

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What our customers say

ELEKS provided outstanding and detailed analyses of our processes, and they went above and beyond to help us get a better overview of the pain points and challenges. Their analysis was extremely well performed and will help us greatly with implementing a new system in the near future.

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Sigurrós Oddný Kjartansdóttir
Digital Project Manager at the Department of Finance and Risk, Reykjavik City

They do work to a very high standard. They apply information engineering disciplines to the work they do, and they do understand how important it is to meet customer expectations. I think those are the things that matter most about ELEKS and that have been instrumental in their remarkable growth and success.

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Brian Coutanche
Managing Director, teleologica

ELEKS successfully took our vision and processes and built a solution to meet our future needs.  Now, eTracks is well positioned to enable its long-term strategic vision of aligning business processes and technology to meet tomorrow’s recycling challenges.

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Adam Bourke
Chief Operations Officer, eTracks