Expeditionary Combat Support System

(ECSS)

Oracle R12 Supply Chain Project

Personal Intro

■ Former E&Y and Oracle employee■ Development Lead on Alcoa Oracle

Project; • Over $1 billion project budget• 28 businesses • Global implementation • Standardize finance• Lean and Complex Discrete Manufacturing

■ Functional Lead on ECSS Phase I, Base Supply

■ Currently at Select Comfort

DoD Modernization

■ All branches of Armed Forces received project budgets as part of Stimulus

■ Modernize Supply Chain; reduce costs and increase reaction time

■ Support every contingency ■ Implement standard, easy to use tools and

techniques■ U.S. Military active in 70 different

countries on any given day; active operations in over 120 countries a year

Air Force (AF) and Foreign Military Sales (FMS)

■ Air Force does little traditional manufacturing, but has a complex Repair Service and Supply Chain accounting for about $30 Billion of business a year

■ Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and Service provided by U.S. Supply Systems; billions of dollars in sales and service to 160 countries

■ Move from Cold War Supplies -> Special Forces Expeditions

Implementation Strategy

■ Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software

■ “There’s an App for that”■ Initially chose “Best of Bread” tools,

then decided it was too costly to integrate them

■ Chose Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) R12 Applications

Project Quantifiers

■ Replace 451 Legacy IT Systems■ Replace 12,000 Interfaces■ Support 250,000 Users■ 10 Year, 4 Phase Project

Project Methodology

■ Gather Requirements■ Configure Oracle Applications■ Demonstrate Applications via Test

Scenarios■ Document Gaps■ Map Requirements to Test Scenarios

to Gaps

Business Issues

■ Transportation Planning• Navy transports slowly but cost effectively • Air force transports quickly but expensively

■ Service based upon use• for example, flights over water versus desert

■ Many transactions need to be performed off-line; i.e. receiving material

■ Providing a summary view of Supply • Government is notorious for losing things; i.e.

FEMA

Flow of Material in/out of Base

Depot Repair Process

■ Aircraft and Asset maintenance Service Request

■ Customer Service Agent checks Oracle Knowledge Management for resolution

■ Determine Repair Type:• Repair and Return• Loaner, Repair and Return• Exchange• Replacement• Refurbishment

Depot Repair Process

■ Complete Order Management RMA and/or Sales Order Line

■ Create Oracle WIP Job or Task• WIP Job for multiple sequential steps

(router) and material use (BOM)• Task: Non-costed simple tasks

Base Supply Requisition Process

Shipping Catch Up

■ Hurry up and Wait■ Requisitioned, Approved, Stockpiled

and Order put on Hold■ Materials distributed or consumed

off-line■ Pick Release runs in batch and

releases sales orders■ Ship Confirm confirms shipments in

batch

Planning Base Supply

Work in Process

■ Simple Manufacturing• Work Orderless Completion • Lean Manufacturing using Kanban• Flow Manufacturing • Pull• Catch Up

■ Complex Manufacturing• BOM and Routing• Push

United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM)

■ The mission of USTRANSCOM is to provide air, land and sea transportation for the Department of Defense

■ Air Force’s Air Mobility Command■ Navy’s Sealift Command■ Army’s Surface Deployment and

Distribution Command

Oracle Transportation Planning

■ Plan Shipments, usually more than 1 day lead time to ship

■ Inventory ownership• Government Owned, GSA Procured• Sometimes SKU level and track inventory in

transit• Steward, ship/handle as owner, GL different• Manage the inventory: BOL, Hazard Code, etc.• Shipper: LPN or tracking code.

Oracle Transportation Planning

■ Truck focused■ Domestic centric■ Discrete packaged items, not bulk■ Load consolidation

• Parcels -> LTL• LTL -> Full Truckload

■ Combine Trips into Routes

See Also

■ Solution Beaconhttp://www.solutionbeacon.

com/tools_r12vision.htm■ ECSS Evaluation:

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA500460