Industry and Customer Collaboration(ICC)

Abstract

The Industry and Customer Collaboration Strategic Focus Area (SFA) projects improve and facilitate the communication of technical and logistics information among industry, DLA’s military customers and DLA. This SFA includes Military Uniform System Technology and the Defense Logistics Information Research (P.E. 0603712S) within its scope. The movement of the DLIR related work from P.E. 0603712S to the DOD ManTech Program aligns the funding to the critical interface between DLA and industry and away from internal DLA operations. This Strategic Focus Area has 5 Roadmaps: Military Uniform System Technology (MUST), Model Based Enterprise, Technical and Logistical Data Interoperability, Proactive Forecasting and Retail Support, and Supplier Operations Interface. The Military Uniform System Technology roadmap will address GAO Report 12-707 recommendations that DOD to establish a “knowledge based approach” to collaborate on define and communicate of military uniforms. DLA has the responsibility to communicate and manage the technical requirements among the Services and the Defense Industrial Base. Currently there is no common environment for collaborating on new requirements among the stakeholders. MUST will research enabling technologies and apply them to reengineering technical data requirement management process for the common environment recommended by the GAO. The Model Based Enterprise will develop capabilities operations to systematically accept, validate, store, item design information in 3D models. There are two classes of data that must be addressed: newly designed parts for systems still in development and legacy parts for systems that are in sustainment. The problem with newly designed parts is capturing the designs. The problem with legacy part is that they do not have engineering models so a specific decision has to be made on the economics of recreating the design in contemporary engineering systems. The Technical and Logistical Data Interoperability will pioneer methods to capture data from military Services, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and suppliers to form a seamless thread of interoperable and linked data models. The Proactive Forecasting and Retail Support will roadmap will identify ways to look ahead at military operations and budgets to systematically identify parts there demand changes can be expected. The alternative is reactively waiting for forecasting to recognize trends which could be after the fact and too late to affect logistics support decisions. The Supplier Operations Interface Roadmap will work with DLA process owners, the DLA supply chains and the industrial base, to identify the relevant data sets and most desirable methods of providing DLA suppliers with NIIN inventory visibility where the supplier is contractually responsible for providing a specified level of support. Allowing suppliers to more effectively anticipate DLA’s requirements will improve both DLA and supplier efficiency.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 9_0708011S_7_0400_PB_2016

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Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
• Systems Analysis and Design