The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has awarded Accenture [ACN] a four-year, $73 million contract to integrate DLA’s energy supply chain into its enterprise business system.
The integration effort marks the eighth and final component of the agency’s supply chain system.
Accenture said the energy convergence program is designed to incorporate DLA’s energy supply chain business into its enterprise resource planning (ERP) architecture, which the company introduced in 2000 through the business systems modernization (BSM) contract. Under the BSM contract Accenture developed an SAP-based ERP architecture and integrated seven of DLA’s supply chains.
Under the energy supply chain integration contract Accenture will integrate a client-specific oil solution to meet the requirements of the Defense Energy Support Center. Accenture will streamline operations, integrate financial activities and reduce systems support costs as well as provide DLA with total asset visibility and reduce customer wait times.
Once the energy integration is finished, DLA will have more than $18 billion in traceable items to its fully integrated logistics supply chain.