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4. The Logistics Systems Modernization Program: An Opportunity for Excellence
4. The Logistics Systems Modernization Program: An Opportunity for Excellence
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The building blocks for such a plan, while not fully defined, have been identified and placed within the context of a program schedule and resource management plan. Goals, Ob; ectives, and Critical Success Factors We believe that a broad vision of where the agency is going should be translated to a top-down, long-term view of what it wants to achieve through the LSMP.
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. The goals, objectives, and critical success factors should be considered a "living" document that can change and expand as the agency moves into the future.
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These business functions will then be related to organization, controls, markets, and resources. This model, along with a new understanding of how the DLA must operate in an integrated partnership with industry and its customers, should motivate efforts to: resolve regulatory constraints; effect new policies and procedures to foster the new integrated relationships; revise budget preparations; and facilitate the exploitation of technology to fulfill management expectations.
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One way to reduce the problems caused by matrix operations could entail assigning functional and technical people to the program office for extended periods. During that time they would work only for the program office and be evaluated by the program office.
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While such capability should be available to the key decision makers throughout the agency, some security measures appear to be in order and need to be considered in developing the requirements for this function. - ' Decision support requirements should be a part of the LSMP.
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It will also serve to involve senior managers in its design. INTEGRATED MATERIEL MANAGEMENT A fundamental service provided by the DLA is the timely and cost-effective supply of commodities and spare parts to the services.-This mission entails several activities including forecasting demand, cost effective procurement, and the maintenance of the lowest possible inventories consistent with the timely supply of the services's needs, within the framework of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)
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We believe that the development and execution of the LSMP provides the DLA several opportunities to reduce the PALT. For example, immediate accessibility to the technical data base, aggregate contractor profiles, common data base elements to serve both the inventory managers and the buyers, and increased accessibility to an expanded and concurrent contract administration data base all have great promise in reducing PALT without diminishing the emphasis on competitive procurements.
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Although we are not sufficiently knowledgeable of the cost of expanded asset reporting, it is apparent that given a policy of expanded visibility at the wholesale level, the DLA could frequently defer or avoid additional buys. Such visibility could also;enhance readiness by providing faster response to priority requirements in a shortage environment.
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The quality of response desired, including the tolerable percentage of stock outages and delays to be allowed and the ability to be responsive to surge demands during a contingency or mobilization situation, require careful consideration. During the initial visits and briefings, we found that opportunities presented by the LSMP for improving peacetime efficiencies were being fully considered, but we did not find that sufficient consideration was being given to factors associated with designing, structuring, or sizing for more capacities to meet increased volumes during contingencies or mobilization.
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This section addresses the principal contract administration functional areas that must be.upgraded and integrated into the agency's overall plans for achieving a modern, effective, and efficient logistics system. Contractor Profiles The basic role of the contract administration office is to ensure timely delivery of quality products to defense users of those products.
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The LSMP should emphasize the need for a modern, accurate, responsive, and integrated financial management and accounting system for all phases of the acquisition logistics process. Contract Audit ing The contract auditing function is performed by both the DLA and the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)
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4 While much of the literature on distributed data processing exaggerates the current capability of that technology, a great deal can, nonetheless, be accomplished in a well-designed system that has been built expressly for distributed processing. Additionally, the technology is improving rapidly, and within the time frames for the LSMP, we expect that a distributed processing system that is both robust and data-base driven will provide a cost effective capability when compared to the centralized architectural alternatives.
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Department of Defense, Computer Security Center, 1983~. Trusted computer networks are more difficult to specify, but the effort is being made (U.S.
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Employing security measures without care for compatibility and transparency can restrict operations and severely limit hardware and software options. Sharing of data would be reduced and maintenance costs would be greatly increased.
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U.S. National Computer Security Center, 1987.
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