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In Defence, the Operational Imperative - deliver force effect - remains unchanged: it's simply becoming more complex to meet. During recent conflicts, logistics has been recognised as integral to the Joint Operational Picture. Whilst logistics is about moving forces and material to generate force effect, logistics information increasingly underpins that same output - combining to reconcile two imperatives - effectiveness and efficiency. In the past, Ministries of Defence have typically procured their Logistics IS capabilities over time to meet a very different threat: but now they must transform - through evolution, not revolution. EDS plays the role of Intelligent Supplier, helping drive coherence between business process and IS - delivering logistics information that is a perfect fit for purpose.

Defence Logistics
EDS has worked to support critical Defence information technology and applications across the globe for many years. Confidence in our capability to deliver has led our Defence clients to look to us as trusted advisers to support their transformation to meet future challenges.

One key challenge is in transforming their relationships with Industry. Where planning and forecasting processes underpin any effective supply chain, as pressures increase, this will equally include the Defence Supply Chain:

The MoD transformation staircase sets out the way ahead from being a provider organisation to becoming a decider organisation. Not all areas will be at the same point at any one time. The journey from traditional contracting, through spares inclusive to contracting for availability and eventually contracting for capability will place a number of new demands on Defence logistics:

• Increasing collaboration with Industry will need wider availability of commercial infrastructure and common standards for simple, low cost access to Ministry infrastructure
• A shift in emphasis on information systems that track materiel flow in the end-to-end supply chain rather than monitor static inventories as the decider role transfers inventory holdings back to Industry under service-based contracting arrangements. Industry looks to achieve a greater degree of control over the tempo of the supply chain
• These arrangements will drive very different behaviours when Industry takes on the costs and risk of latency in the repair cycle - turning spares round faster to cut the numbers in the pool to meet a given service level.

Seeking visibility right through the supply chain to facilitate faster turn round times and aggressively eliminate redundancy and latency in the supply chain.

Solving your needs
EDS has unique experience in delivering best practice logistics IS solutions in many markets including Defence. EDS as Intelligent Supplier offers a fast-track route to highly automated systems and services, proven processes and flexible resources. By leveraging EDS' core capabilities, our military clients can focus on capabilities and services that are critical to their success.

Let EDS help you:

• Create measurable, sustainable value for your Armed Forces
  To succeed in today's rapidly changing environment, Armed Forces must continue to deliver the Operational Imperative: improve operational capability - often with reducing budgets. EDS' process, technology and service solutions help improve efficiency and reduce operational and capital expense. EDS will help you demonstrate measurable returns on investment.
• Strategically manage your costs
  Maintaining operational effectiveness whilst cutting costs is the most important consideration you face today. EDS can help you transform your enterprise into a more efficient and cost-effective operation. Military clients have found 'Big Bang' revolution does not work: EDS' deep Defence experience enables it to offer a robust evolutionary approach to Transformation to underpin Partnership arrangements.
• Manage your enterprise risk
  Military organisations must harmonise planning, administration, operations and security functions across the organization to manage and reduce risk. EDS' risk management approach delivers strong programme management, proven methods and capable, talented people who understand what is unique about military risk.
• Automate Battlespace Management
  Logistics is now accepted as integral to Campaign Planning and the Joint Operational Picture - as automation encroaches on all the key functions of Battlespace Management from shooter to sensor. Managing logistics by exploiting information offers significant potential to improve effectiveness whilst reducing the logistics footprint.
• Develop applications faster, cheaper and with higher quality
  EDS can help you follow a responsive military business process strategy designed to deliver Operational Effect underpinned by a flexible, evolutionary applications architecture. Trading off Best-of-Breed Applications with Enterprise Systems, and combined with latest proven JAD/RAD methodologies, EDS can deliver optimised technology and service solutions within realistic time frames.

The EDS difference
EDS brings you a complete portfolio of world-leading consulting, business and technology services that deliver value to military organisations across the globe. Our international team tailors these offerings to meet the specific needs of individual clients, allowing you to respond to changes quickly and effectively.