PBL Challenges
A military PBL contractor’s performance will only be as good as the supply and maintenance information it has from the end user. Contractors typically have access to supply information, but often there is no visibility in regard to maintenance status at military bases or for forward deployed forces. These blind spots keep the PBL contractor from operating at an optimal efficiency.
In order to optimize asset availability across a broad network of aftermarket logistics partners, PBL contractors need end-to-end visibility of integrated supply and maintenance data to optimize planning, provide strategic oversight and to track contractual assets by configuration whether they be on wing, in supply, in repair or in transit.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of PBL contractors do not yet benefit from access to such amalgamated information. Historical technological impediments include such problems as incompatible computer networks and software, as well as the inability to move and share large volumes of near real-time data from maintenance locations dispersed across the globe. Key pieces of maintenance information not currently available to PBL contractors include: mean time between failure (MTBF), faults found, reason and repair codes and repair cycle times to name a few. When coupled with variance of demand and cost information, these data points can be used to make better-informed optimization decisions.
For PBL contractors, the cost of managing the repair process without the right tools translates to missing out on award incentives, monetary contract penalties, elimination from future competitive contracts due to non-performance, or even contract termination -- not to mention the additional manpower it may take to manage the process with tools that are unsuited to Inventory Control Point (ICP) and repair management processes.
Please refer to the following pages for information on how Miro’s GOLDesp™ software meets these challenges.
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