Listed below are articles that appeared in the AFLMA Journal in August 2007. This was a Special ECSS Edition. Click on the title to read the full article.

A New Global Vision for Transforming Logistics: Expeditionary Logistics for the 21st Century is a comprehensive attempt to change all of our business processes as well as the enabling information technology. It is targeted at the entire Air Force logistics enterprise.

Concept to Reality, Making Logistics Transformation a Reality: Ultimately, transformation is about results. Team CSC’s focus on outcomes ensures that program activities tie directly to Air Force objectives, the realization of benefits, and achieving the results the Air Force expects.

The Road to Success, Charting the Course of ECSS: In order to meet the logistics challenges of today and tomorrow, the Air Force logistics chain must be more efficient and effective in getting the right part, to the right place, at the right time.

ECSS Change Management, Controlling Predictable Chaos: With over 250,000 primary, secondary, and casual users, the ECSS will have enabled transformation of every process, policy, system, and job skill within the end-to-end supply chain.

Strategies for Success, Guiding the Way: ECSS is one of the largest and most comprehensive business transformations ever envisioned. It will enable the end-to-end transformation of Air Force logistics processes and is critical to shaping tomorrow’s Air Force capabilities. The benefits of ECSS will be extraordinary.

The Logistics Transformation Office, Voice of the Customer: Expeditionary Logistics for the 21st Century (eLog21) is a transformation campaign designed to increase the combat capability of the Air Force through logistics management process improvements. The Logistics Enterprise Architecture (LogEA) contains the guiding principles for accomplishing the eLog21 goals, and ECSS is the technology enabler for future Air Force logistics operations.

Enterprise Architecture, Process, Technology, and Resources: The Air Force logistics enterprise is defined as the collection of processes, technology, and resources that deliver logistics support to the warfighter. This enterprise operates across all products lines, and includes delivery, transportation, maintenance, procurement and purchasing, inventory management, and product life-cycle management.

Enterprise Resource Planning, Integrating Organizational Processes: Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are information systems that integrate processes in an organization using a common database and shared reporting tools. Simply put, “an ERP system helps the different parts of the organization share data and knowledge, reduce costs, and improve management of business processes.”

Supply Chain Management, More Than Integrated Logistics: Supply chain management is more than a passing stage in the continuing evolution of management practice. It is a major revolution which is already delivering end-to-end visibility, cost reductions, and new levels of performance metrics in meeting customer requirements.

Logistics Support, Relating Readiness to Dollars: Air Force managers have the information they need to measure the impact of funding cuts on various commodities when compared to base-level readiness. What is still needed are tools to trade off one commodity for another or one resource for another.