Fully Integrated Global Strategic Supply Network - A Critical Enabler of DoD Transformation

摘要

Our Strategic Supply team focused its effort on transformational change in the Department of Defense (DoD) logistics enterprise, leveraging key technologies and best practices from the commercial sector to provide the visibility, agility, persistence and interoperability required by America's expeditionary forces and those of her allies. To meet the challenge of those requirements we focused on three areas of change: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and security across a broad variety of leading industries. Further, we discussed various governance models capable of fostering the cultural changes required to best implement these concepts. For each of these areas we will discuss what they are, the potential they hold, and what we believe their relevance to be; as well as lessons learned from industry and the current status of these initiatives in the DoD, before concluding with some policy recommendations and their implications for resourcing the National Security Strategy. These recommendations are not driven by short term cost savings. In fact, the magnitude of change we are recommending is enormous. While each of the services could have independent ERP systems; where those systems touch the DoD's Global Logistics System, they must be compliant with data discipline and procedural standardization. Based on our research and industry analysis, the vision set out by the DoD's defining documents (such as Focused Logistics and JV 2020) cannot be achieved to any substantial degree any other way. Our analysis concludes that if the DoD continues on the current logistics implementation path there is a high likelihood of failure. In order to overcome these challenges we must embrace transformational change that will consist of numerous actions.