state-of-the-art IT technologies for customised solutions
Our applications are based on state-of-the-art software technologies (Microsoft Business Intelligence Tools), which are constantly maintained and continuously developed by the world’s largest provider of enterprise software – without development risks or maintenance problems and with a guarantee of long-term availability.
As part of the implementation, each application is specially tailored to the individual requirements and needs of the respective airport and remains open for later extensions. There are three basic variants to choose from:
SAMS – COMPACT is a basic package that offers a cost-effective entry into the world of “Smart Airport Management Solutions” and integrated corporate planning of airports, designed specifically for the basic requirements of “Small & Regional Airports”. This also allows smaller and regional airports to install a tailor-made planning and decision-making tool “in-house” without having highly specialized IT experts in-house. This solution makes it easy to develop and evaluate alternative development scenarios, to place strategically relevant decisions on individual projects or specific development programs in an overall context and to create an integrated airport development concept and business plans. SAMS – COMPACT thus creates the basis for long-term sustainable airport management for smaller organizations, which unites economic, ecological and social goals.
But even for larger airports, this tool offers a variety of new applications and should not necessarily be a substitute, but a timely extension of already implemented planning and reporting systems. With SAMS – COMPACT missing planning areas are integrated into an overall planning concept of the airport and new, holistic oriented decision models are provided.
SAMS – ADVANCED includes all the components of SAMS – COMPACT and offers a number of content enhancements that meet the ever – increasing expectations for the quality of airport planning. Using this extended package makes it easy to solve additional tasks in the areas of “Airport Marketing”, “Strategic Airport Capacity Management”, “Financial Airport Controlling” and “Airport Sustainability Management”, which are directly related to strategic and operational corporate planning. Better integration of such tasks can save both time for internal processes and money for external services.
SAMS – PREMIUM is a special solution for operators of major airports and / or airport groups who cover a wide range of services with a complex organizational structure or operate several airport locations. For this purpose, this solution offers the possibility of transferring the revolving planning processes of an airport operator partially into individual business areas and to organizationally decentralizing them and combining them a “top-down approach” and a “bottom-up approach”.
SAMS – PREMIUM offers a variety of planning models especially designed for each individual business area, which are embedded in a higher-level corporate model. In doing so, the smallest organizational units can be planned as business units and condensed into business fields or business segments and ultimately to a consolidated corporate overall result. At the same time, organizational (divisions) or corporate structures (individual companies or geographical operating locations) can be mapped separately.
The following table shows the content differences between the individual packages:
Compact
Advanced
Premium
General Approach
- Corporate airport development concept and business plan based on multi-dimensional scenarios (group level) plus break-down to airport business segments by using an individually defined allocation key
- Corporate airport development concept and business plan based on multi-dimensional scenarios (group level) plus break-down to airport business segments by using an individually defined allocation key
- Top-down planning to create a corporate airport development concept and business plan based on multi-dimensional scenarios plus break-down to airport business segments by using an individually defined allocation key
- Bottom-up planning of individually defined business units based on a decentralized planning process using
- Decentralized business unit planning models
- Internal cost accounting
- Group consolidation
Level of Detail
- Short-, medium- and long-term business plans split to
- Group level
- up to 6 business segments
- Short-, medium- and long-term business plans split to
- Group level
- up to 6 business segments
- up to 24 business fields
- Short-, medium- and long-term business plans split to
- up to max. 100 business units
- 24 business fields
- 6 business segments
- Companies
- Geographical Locations
- Corporate group
Traffic
Compact
Advanced
Premium
- Air traffic forecast for combined traffic by individually selected traffic market segments. Short-, medium- and long-term air traffic forecasts split into O/D, transfer and transit traffic for
- Passengers
- Cargo/mail
- Aircraft movements
- considering crucial capacity restrictions on runway or terminal capacity
- showing annual overall and peak volumes (peak days and peak hours)
- Specialised air traffic
- Pure cargo / pure mail traffic
- General aviation
- Military, etc.
- Traffic-related performance indicators
up to 6 market segments
up to 24 market segments
up to 24 market segments
- Economic factor forecast showing relevant KPIs of the airport location
- Companies and organisations and their employees located at the airport
- Ground traffic forecast directly linked to air traffic forecast, split into airside and landside ground traffic.
- Short-, medium- and long-term airside ground traffic forecast triggered by
- Groundhandling
- Aircraft fuelling
- Catering, etc.
- Short-, medium- and long-term airside ground traffic forecast triggered by
Capacity
Compact
Advanced
Premium
- Short-, medium- and long-term human resource capacity forecast directly linked to traffic forecasts, split into
- Administrive employees
- Operating employees
- Short-, medium- and long-term personnel cost and personnel add-on cost forecast
- Personnel-related performance indicators
up to 6 segments
up to 24 business fields
up to 24 business units
- Short-, medium- and long-term asset capacity requirement forecast directly linked to traffic forecasts, split into
- Runway capacity
- Passenger terminal capacity
- Short-, medium- and long-term capital expenditure program
- Short-, medium- and long-term forecast for asset-related operating costs (maintenance, cleaning, energy supply, etc.)
- Asset-related performance indicators
- Short-, medium- and long-term asset capacity requirement forecast directly linked to traffic forecasts, split into up to 75 technical sub-functions, such as
- Airside facilities (runways, taxiways, apron, airside road system, hangars, airside safety & security facilities, etc.)
- Terminals (passenger terminals, cargo & mail terminals, warehouses, general aviation & VIP terminals, etc.)
- Home-based carrier facilities (hangars, dedicated apron, workshops, administration, etc.)
- Landside facilities (car parking, commercial real estate, administration, workshops, etc.)
- Technical infrastructure (energy supply, telecom, water & waste water facilities, sewage, etc.)
- Landside access (landside access roads, railway, internal road system, landside transportation systems, etc.)
- Short-, medium- and long-term capital expenditure program by technical sub-functions
- Short-, medium- and long-term forecast for asset-related operating costs (maintenance, cleaning, energy supply, etc.) by technical sub-functions
up to 80 technical functions
up to 80 technical functions
Finance
Compact
Advanced
Premium
- Short-, medium- and long-term profit& loss forecast split into
- operating revenue and cost forecasts using a proven accounting scheme
- financial revenue and cost forecasts
- taxes paid and other revenues and costs
- Short-, medium- and long-term Balance sheet forecast using a proven accounting scheme and split into
- Assets
- Equity & liabilities
- Short-, medium- and long-term cashflow forecasts showing
- Free operating cashflows and financing requirements
- Financing cashflows (cashflows from/to shareholders and lenders)
- Financial performance indicators
up to 6 business segments
up to 24 business fields
up to 100 business units
- Short-, medium- and long-term financing options by lenders / shareholders
- Company valuation
- Advanced financial key performance indicators
Environment
Compact
Advanced
Premium
- Short-, medium- and long-term forecast of macro-economic effects of air traffic at the airport location and in the catchment area showing direct, indirect and induced
- Employment effects
- Value added
- Taxes
- Macro-economic performance indicators
- Short-, medium- and long-term term forecast of environmental effects (noise, emissions) of air traffic in the catchment area
- in terms of effected persons and effected areas
- economic valuation
- cost-benefit-analysis
- Short-, medium- and long-term term forecast of use of scarce goods (land, energy, water, etc.)
- Environmental investments
- Environmental performance indicators
Strategy
Compact
Advanced
Premium
- Conceptual design tools to create a corporate airport development strategy (on group level)
- Form-sets and checklists to create an integrated airport development concept by using the balanced scorecard philosophy
business segments
business fields
business units
- Multi-dimensional scenario valuation by using individually defined and weighted strategic success factors
- Multi-perspective scenario valuation by integrating views of internal or external stakeholders
