United States Navy Awards $43 Million Contract to One Network Enterprises to Modernize Supply Chain
One Network will bring both its commercial experience and defense capabilities to the Navy to modernize around repeatable business processes across all commodity types and throughout the entire operational supply chain.
Awarded a $42.6 Million Supply Chain Contract
One Network Enterprises, a global provider of multi-party business networks for autonomous supply chain management, today announced that it has been awarded a $42.6 million contract by the Army Contracting Command on behalf of the United States Navy for the Naval Operational Business Logistics Enterprise (NOBLE) Naval Operational Supply System (NOSS) to begin modernization of the entire operational supply chain.
The award is the result of a competitive Other Transactional Authority (OTA) acquisition process.
The Naval Operational Supply System is an end-to-end Supply Chain Management (SCM) solution that supports Naval Operational Forces to include Maritime, Aviation, Expeditionary, and Shore Support Units.
The NOSS solution is a modernization effort to replace legacy applications and systems, provide a standardized and scalable solution for use across the entire enterprise, and consolidate all functional capabilities into an integrated solution.
It includes supply, financial, and property management capability for all material. NOSS will be the DoD’s first material-agnostic SCM solution.
Traditionally, the DoD services have relied on multiple systems within their supply chain, with one or more systems managing a single commodity item. NOSS will manage and support all commodity types for the U.S. Navy through one global federated system.
These commodities include munitions, parts and repairables, medical supplies, Petroleum, Oils, and Lubricants (POL), food and food preparation, hazardous material, retail, and all other items that the Navy needs to support their mission-critical operations.
One Network will bring both its commercial experience and defense capabilities to the Navy to modernize around repeatable business processes across all commodity types.
“The confidence that the Navy has entrusted to One Network is another proof point regarding the capabilities of our multi-party network platform,” said David Stephens, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Government Programs, One Network Enterprises.
“The Navy will benefit from a modernized global platform that will never go legacy, supporting both ashore and afloat capabilities. In addition, One Network’s federated platform-to-platform integration enables the Navy with a Delayed/Disconnected, Intermittently Connected, Low Bandwidth Environment (typically referred to as D-DIL), which is ideal for deployed operations afloat. We look forward to providing a truly global and mobile One Network solution operating on all Navy ships and submarines with access from every shore-based location while working in both unclassified and classified environments.”
The effort also includes all tasks necessary to support a Limited Deployment (LD) of the NOSS solution. The LD solution requires the implementation of functional requirements needed to deploy the modernized solution in a production environment. The requirements include product definition analysis, commercial off-the-shelf configuration, and associated development, testing, and integration in support of identified Limited Deployment sites.
In addition to this award by the U.S. Navy, last month the United States Air Force (USAF) awarded a $62M contract to One Network Enterprises for its Item Master Logistics Capability Initiative (IMLCI). One Network will help the USAF configure and model new Master Data Management business processes to support its portfolio of logistics initiatives worldwide.
Since 2008, One Network Enterprises has supported mission-critical capabilities for multiple agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense, including the U.S. Army, Air Force, Marine Corps (see case study below), and current work with the U.S. Navy, in conjunction with their teams and allies all over the world.
United States Marine Corps Achieves Total Asset Visibility and Automates Flow of Ammunition to Warfighters Worldwide
Key Results
- Global inventory visibility into worldwide asset postures across 315 DoDICs Total Munitions Requirement
- Improved service levels to 124 supported activities
- Improved transaction accuracy with error rates down from +64% to as low as 0.3%
- Improved customer satisfaction with 100% scheduled availability
- Reduced total system cost to deploy, maintain and support
Situation
The U.S. Marine Corps’ (USMC) existing inventory management system for global ammunition was aging, error-prone, lacked inventory visibility, and was tightly integrated to legacy systems throughout the Department of Defense (DOD) including the U.S. Army and Navy. The USMC needed to modernize its system from legacy technology to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform while maintaining all integrations (192 MILSTRIP/MILSTRAP message sets) with internal and external legacy applications.
Key Statistics
- $6.4 billion inventory
- 337 different major end items
- 1,500 employees
- 22 different international locations
- 210,510 tons stored at over 135 locations worldwide
- $4.1 billion budget for the next 6 years
- 450 new employees trained per year
- 200,000+ customers
Business Challenges
The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) had unique requirements, a short implementation schedule, and could not initially replace their existing legacy systems. They also required an extensible platform that would rapidly modernize existing capabilities while also providing for future business transformation opportunities and supply chain capabilities.
One Network Solution
The USMC selected One Network because it was the only technology vendor that could rapidly provide the USMC with the new capabilities it needed while integrating with its legacy systems, as well as those of the US Navy and US Army. This was an important factor given the magnitude and complexity involved in modernizing the USMC global ammunition inventory management system.
One Network provided the U.S. Marine Corps with solutions that included Inventory Management, Requisition Management, Lot Tracking, Serialized Item Tracking, Master Data Management, Inventory Planning, and In-Transit Tracking. These solutions helped the U.S. Marine Corps achieve total asset visibility and provide end-to-end order management from procurement to the Warfighter.
“One Network delivered exceptional time-to-value by going live within five months of contract award, supporting 124 sites with over $6.4B inventory.”
The One Network Advantage
- Global inventory visibility into worldwide asset postures across 315
- DoDICs Total Munitions Requirement
- Improved service levels to 124 supported activities
- Improved transaction accuracy with error rates down from +64% to as low as 0.3%
- Improved customer satisfaction with 100% scheduled availability
- Reduced total system cost to deploy, maintain and support
The Results
One Network delivered exceptional time-to-value by going live within five months of the contract award. One Network supports 124 sites with over $6.4B inventory and provides unprecedented global inventory visibility into worldwide asset postures across all principal end items. Often, within the defense sector, re-engineering business processes can take years, costs become staggering, and users get disillusioned Yet this was not the case with One Network.
One Network delivered the legacy transformation project on time and under budget. The brevity of the project timeline underscores the flexibility of One Network’s platform and solutions because they were easily adapted to meet the U.S. Marine Corps’ specific functional and integration requirements. Cloud-based architecture coupled with SOA capabilities enabled One Network to provide rapid development and configuration at a fraction of the time and cost of more traditional systems.
In a recent article, the USMC Commandant stated that “their number one priority is supporting our Marines in Afghanistan.” With One Network, the USMC has automated and improved the critical flow of ammunition to the Warfighter.
One Network also helped the USMC reduce total system cost of deployment, maintenance, and support, improve service levels to 124 supported activities, and improve customer satisfaction with 100% scheduled availability. One Network Enterprises has successfully helped the USMC accelerate the migration of its applications and data to a modern net-centric environment that will support the rapid development of future capabilities and accelerated business transformation.
In fact, One Network’s work with the USMC resulted in the receipt of the Department of the Navy Information Management IT (DON IM/IT) Excellence Award. The DON IM/IT award recognizes the superior quality of Information Management/Information Technology projects, teams, and individuals helping to transform the Navy and USMC through information technology.
Related Article: The United States Air Force Awards $62M Contract for Its Item Master Logistics Capability Initiative
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