Logistics

Demand Forecasting

We are working to make fuel shortages a thing of the past by developing new concepts and solutions in "sense and respond" logistics. For the U.S. Army Logistics Transformation Agency, we are implementing sensors on 5,000-gallon fuel tankers and the 10,000-gallon fuel storage "bladders" and integrating those sensors into a prototype "sense and respond" system. Adaptive agents (actually sophisticated software codes) review sensor data, compare it with data from command and control systems and other sources, and decide what supplies should be ordered and when.

Total Asset Visibility

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology can help fulfill the promises of total asset visibility and in-transit visibility. At the Fleet Industrial Supply Center Norfolk, SAIC implemented one of DoD's first fully integrated passive RFID installations. The system provides real-time visibility for the more than 150,000 tagged pieces of material that flow through this ocean terminal annually.

Collecting broken repairable components, also known as "retrograde material," from combat areas and returning them to depots is a major logistical challenge. Our staff is using passive RFID technology and an electronic retrograde management system to help solve this problem in Iraq and Afghanistan for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Their achievements in improving asset visibility - while dealing with extremely difficult "in-country" and ship deployment situations - won praise from our customer, the Naval Inventory Control Point.

Our staff also deployed to Iraq to install equipment that is mission-critical for airfield operations: instrument landing systems (ILS) and VHF Omnirange Tactical Air Navigation (VORTAC) equipment. As a leading supplier and installer of NAVAIDS equipment for the Air Force, we have performed over 100 installations at Air Force bases worldwide. As part of this work, we also perform other depot-level functions, such as upgrading and maintaining these systems.

Just-in-Time Inventory

SAIC provides logistical support for MRAP vehicles for the Joint Program Office (JPO). We support interoperability testing, orchestrate transportation of the vehicles to theater, and deprocess in theater. We also support the MRAP Joint Logistics Integration (JLI) program, providing in-theater fielding and sustainment of the entire MRAP fleet of vehicles. The MRAP programs require a strict delivery schedule on a high volume of vehicles while maintaining configuration management across multiple vehicle variants.

Supply Chain Integration

SAIC is a provider of integrated supply, procurement, and material handling/physical logistics services, including pre-expended bin, kitting and storefront management for the U.S. government. We purchase and deliver a wide variety of material, ranging from commercial products (facility maintenance repair and operations goods; defense equipment for hazardous materials, including chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, high-yield explosive) to weapon system parts (aircraft, tactical/non-tactical/combat vehicles, and ships/submarines). We currently complete approximately one million purchase order line item transactions per year for our customers and are especially adept at locating sources of hard-to-obtain parts.

We significantly expanded our logistics capabilities with the acquisition of ProcureNet, a leading provider of electronic procurement for the U.S. government. We have integrated ProcureNet's capabilities with our existing logistics services to create a total end-to-end supply chain management solution for our customers.

SAIC currently provides supply chain management services through a series of integrated supply contracts, including the following Defense Logistics Agency programs:

• Prime Vendor Maintenance Repair and Operations (PV MRO) - SAIC holds six individual prime vendor contracts to provide maintenance supplies to federal facilities in the continental United States (CONUS) and Hawaii/Guam via PurchasePlace™, our proprietary Internet electronic order entry and e-catalog system. SAIC supplies facilities items, such as plumbing, electrical, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), lumber, hardware and assorted industrial materials. We rapidly deliver commercial-off-the-shelf products to over 200 federal ordering activities via PV MRO (1.3M PDF *).
• Integrated Prime Vendor (IPV) - SAIC has been providing consumable parts management services since 1998. We supply parts ranging from Pre-Expended Bin (PEB) items to aircraft subassemblies, engine and landing gear components to major U.S. military maintenance depots and the mechanics that maintain front-line aircraft. The result: SAIC has consistently maintained a greater than 99 percent bin fill rate on IPV, cutting the cycle time it takes to get aircraft back in the field. We achieve this success thanks in part to our SCOPTIMA® supply chain management system. SCOPTIMA tracks material levels across more than one hunderd thousand bins and as parts are consumed forecasts when items should be reordered to avoid empty bins. SCOPTIMA can automatically trigger replenishment actions, including decisions about replenishment schedule, quantity, manufacturing source and type of transportation. SCOPTIMA and our just-in-time inventory support have helped cut delivery times from 21 days down to an average of five days.
• Fleet Automotive Support Initiative (FASI) - We provide distribution and supply chain management of Army/Marine Corps wheeled and tracked vehicle repair parts through the FASI virtual prime vendor program. SAIC supplies weapon system parts to over 10,000 designated CONUS locations within a two-to-10-day delivery time. We provide program management, field-level customer service, sourcing, material demand forecasting, parts acquisition, warehousing, inventory management, distribution, quality assurance, configuration management, material management, ultra-rapid delivery, spot buys, bench stock, financial reconciliation and surge and sustainment support.
• Automotive Prime Vendor Worldwide (APVW) - We supply streamlined acquisition and delivery of automotive parts required by U.S. military customers CONUS/Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS). Under the APVW program, SAIC provides expedited delivery of material requisitions in a price list format via Electronic Data Interchange. This 10-year contract also includes non-price-listed items ("spot buys") and fulfillment of low volume, hard-to-find items. For more information about our vehicle parts supply chain programs, please see the FASI APVW Case Study (1.2M PDF *).

Please see SAIC's Supply Chain Management and Logistics Services (1.4M PDF *) for more information.

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