Military Logistics University - June 8th, 2009

9:30Leveraging Automatic Identification Technology for Efficient Supply Chain Management

This workshop will focus on how to maximize RFID readability in order to improve supply chain system accuracy and efficiency.

What will be covered:

• New technology and methods to enhance tag readability
• Standards testing to determine the RFID read fields for case and pallet loads
• Manufacturer case studies to best define how to pre-apply tags in the shipping case

How you will benefit:

• Learn how product materials, packaging materials, and product shape impact readability
• Determine how well reads may occur within a facility or maintenance depot
• What this research means for you and how you can develop effective and meaningful improvements to your supply chain

Robb Clarke, MBA, PhD - School of Packaging, Auto-ID Testing and Research Center, Michigan State University

9:30Risk-Based Route Planning for Sense and Respond Logistics

This workshop discusses ARCORP, an Adaptive Risk-based Convoy Route Planning decision tool that enables users to plan missions and minimize risks of attack.

What will be covered:

• Overview of a tool that analyzes and fuses social, cultural, geospatial, and event knowledgebase
• Research in geospatial and socio-cultural data sources, collection methods, and knowledge engineering

How you will benefit:

• Apply knowledge from past experience learned from historical patterns of dismounted and motorized traffic to predict trouble spots in transportation routes
• How to represent dynamic events such as traffic conditions, route conditions, and attacks in the defense transportation network

Dr. Alper Caglayan - Senior Scientist, Milcord LLC

9:30Performance-Based Logistics Problem Set

Bring your PBL questions and challenges to the table at this one-of-a-kind session. Work through your toughest obstacles with a peer group of PBL professionals. This expertly facilitated discussion will outline opportunities and potential solution sets to a wide range of PBL issues.

What will be covered:

• PBL sustainment
• Training opportunities and challenges
• Government and industry partnerships
• Establishing performance metrics

And much more!

12:00Automatic Identification Technology

This workshop will focus on the problems of bringing real-time visibility to physical objects and processes using RFID.

What will be covered:

• Using RFID to achieve real-time visibility
• RFID technology to track products through the supply chain

How you will benefit:

• Discover how simple technological advancements can dramatically improve data processing and analysis
• Hear actual examples of real time visibility to physical objects and processed using RFID

Dr. Abel Sanchez - Auto-ID Laboratory, MIT

12:00JFAST Capabilities Update and Tool Demonstration

The Joint Flow and Analysis System for Transportation (JFAST) is used to determine transportation requirements, perform courseof- action analysis, and project delivery profiles of troops and equipment by air, land, and sea. This session will focus on the most recent capabilities and enhancements to JFAST

What will be covered:

• An overview of the most recent functional capabilities and add-ons to the system
• A demonstration of the current system and how to leverage new features for better forecasting, scheduling, and planning of transportation resources
• JFAST Exercise Application for Combatant Command training exercises

How you will benefit:

• More accurately analyze airlift/sealift transportation requirements for deploying U.S. forces
• Model and create alternative transportation plans for “whatif scenarios” (canal closings, maintenance delays, etc.)
• More effectively train staff with a cost-effective alternative to the current GTN Exercise System

Ralph Alexander - Vice President, Planning and Logistics Division, DPRA

12:00Defense Transportation Problem Set

Come armed with your toughest transportation challenges! Hear what it takes to support major mobility operations. This discussion will outline opportunities and potential solution sets to a wide range of transportation issues.

What will be covered:

• Terrain obstacles and alternative transportation methods
• Benefits and disadvantages of outsourcing military transportation
• Balancing economic constraints with mission effectiveness

And many more!

2:00Asset Visibility 2.0 System Update

This interactive Asset Visibility (AV) workshop will demonstrate how the AV application can be used to track assets throughout the logistics pipeline.

What will be covered:

• How the application has the ability to track items that are on the shelf ready to issue or from the original requisition
• How to follow items through the transportation pipeline to final destination
• The partnership with SDDC and the ability to integrate IRRIS with the current AV system

How you will benefit:

• Learn what the latest updates to AV are and how they will be of direct benefit to your organization
• Leverage IRRIS mapping technology to improve asset tracking through the single AV portal
• Receive hands-on training that will guide you through the full range of AV tools

Richard Odden
DLA

2:00Innovating the Logistics Supply Chain in the Digital Age

The traditional view of the military logistics supply chain is a push model, where considerations of process, depot operations and supply forward are key elements in decision-making. The future warfighter will require a warfighter-centric pull approach where needs are established by the characteristics of the engagement. This session will discuss the implications of warfighters with inherent social networking tendencies and the impact on the supply chain.

What will be covered:

• Approaches to balanced command-and-control policies with the new realities of this new generation of warfighters
• Situational awareness systems involving intelligent preparation of the logistics battlespace as well as the traditional IPB
• Research done around Marine logistics in Iraq, parallels with social networking trends in the private sector

How you will benefit:

• Discover the implications of ad hoc resupply
• Leverage digital technology for improved distribution planning
• Hear how parallels with social networking trends in the private sector apply to defense logistics

Dr. Irene Petrick - Professor of Practice and Director, Enterprise Informatics & Integration Center, Penn State University

2:00Supply Chain Management and Asset Visibility Problem Set

Asset visibility is critical to providing the right logistics support to battlefield commanders. Discuss the hard issues with experienced practitioners and work through practical solutions to your challenges.

What will be covered:

• In-transit visibility and the last tactical mile
• Challenges of ERP integration
• Analysis and processing tools to handle increased information and data flow.