Under the coordination of the Presidency of Defence Industries, a workshop was organized on 21-22 February 2019 at TÜSSİDE facilities located at TÜBİTAK's Gebze Campus in order to bring together the sector stakeholders for the use of domestic and national Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software in the Defence Industry sector. The workshop, moderated by TÜSSİDE, was attended by 82 participants from 42 institutions in the sector. The program started with the opening speech of Mr. Abdurrahman ALKAYA from the Presidency of Defense Industries. In the first part of the workshop, studies were carried out to analyze the current situation, and in the last part, the needs and expectations of the companies developing Enterprise Resource Planning software and the institutions using KKP were determined for the use of domestic software in the sector.

On the second day of the workshop, the findings and requirements prioritized within the scope of the Current Situation Analysis study conducted on the first day were shared. Afterwards, suggestions were developed with the participants in line with the problems, constraints and requirements prioritized in the current situation analysis study. In the afternoon part of the workshop, road maps for the use of domestic software in the sector were prepared by the working groups in the light of the current situation analysis and the suggestions developed. The program was completed with the sharing and general evaluations made in the last part of the program.

In the light of the knowledge and experience of the participants in the workshop, it was aimed to reach a common mind through group work carried out collectively and under a certain discipline, starting from individual opinions and ideas. In this direction, active participation of the representatives of the sector stakeholders was ensured in the workshop, and by using idea generation methods and techniques, it was tried to reach results where the suggestions and actions created together would be accepted by all stakeholders.