WASHINGTON (07/05/2000) - The Army and Computer Sciences Corp. this week will issue a request for solution, calling on vendors of enterprise resource planning tools to provide the product on which the $681 million Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program will be based.
The Army plans to use the WLMP contract to re-engineer the more than 25-year-old systems and processes in its logistics operations. The request for solutions will go out to ERP vendors SAP America Inc., PeopleSoft Federal and Oracle Government.
The ERP system will provide the supply chain and financials software, but the Army is also committed to adopting the commercial best practices inherent in the system instead of adapting the system to the current Army processes, said Jeff Plotnik, CSC vice president for Department of Defense supply chain solutions and WLMP program manager.