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Business/Financial

DoD Awards Accenture Supply Chain Forecasting Improvement Contract

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

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The Defense Department awarded Accenture [ACN] a two-year contract to identify ways that will improve supply chain forecasting techniques throughout the military, according to a company statement. Accenture said it will work with forecasting, inventory and metrics leads from all branches of the armed services and the Defense Logistics Agency to baseline current practices for forecasting DoD inventory. Work will focus on the lifecycle of an item or weapons system: when it is fully-fielded, when it has an established operational…

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