Contracting Agency: U.S. Air Force (USAF)
Point of Contact: technology@kbsi.com

Overview

The objective of the SSIPT project was to join simulation modeling and data warehousing in building a Supply Support Data Warehouse to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Reengineered Supply Support Process (RSSP). The RSSP is designed to be a seamless spares process that implements Integrated Weapon Systems Management (IWSM) concepts in spares management and integrates the disconnected spares processes that existed prior to reengineering.

The use of simulation with data warehousing is a new and innovative concept and is dependent on the existence of a single supply support data warehouse. The data warehouse approach to providing a single "virtual" database is innovative in that it will not affect existing systems in the way that other single logical database approaches will. The single database allows visibility of data and inventory throughout the life of the weapon system. The simulation model—based on IDEF models of the RSSP—facilitates the rapid testing of the RSSP against a wide variety of scenarios and for performing "What If" scenarios in the operational system.