Client: Defense Logistics Agency
Service: Data Quality, Data Migration
Industry: Government; Logistics
Business Case
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) provides logistics support for the Department of Defense (DoD). With management of over 7.2 million items and 54,000 requisitions per day, data management is key to their vision to provide the right item, right service, right place, and the right price every time. Due to aging ERP systems, the DLA decided to embark on the Business Systems Modernization (BSM) program. To do this, data from billions of procured items needed to be migrated from multiple legacy systems into one enterprise-wide system. The BSM project is the most significant current project at the DLA.
Solution
Data Blueprint has worked with the DLA to assist with a massive data migration associated with their Business Systems Modernization effort to upgrade their primary information systems. As part of this effort, Data Blueprint:
- Conducted a data quality assessment and data cleansing effort
- Significantly improved data quality and streamlined the data migration process
- Created an approach for the DLA to maintain their data quality and ensure that the procurement process would continue to deliver support to our war fighters
Technical Environment
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle
- Custom software developed by Data Blueprint
Results
Data Blueprint successfully accomplished all goals outlined by the DLA for this project. Due to this success, the project evolved to wider areas of data quality than were originally envisioned. This specifically includes areas in which ROI is significant to the DLA and its overall mission objectives.
Client Testimonial
“For the past few years, the DLA has been involved in perhaps its most ambitious project. Modernizing the way we provide support to America’s war fighters will result in significantly improved capabilities for our armed forces and our allies. Part of our business systems modernization involved the transformation of data describing literally billions of items that are procured for the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force. Data Blueprint has developed a unique technical approach to measuring baseline quality assessments and the effects of improvements to those baselines over time. Further, they have implemented an extremely difficult technical solution to ensure that DLA personnel can see the effects of their improvements to the quality of our data immediately. This is a technical feat that no contract has been able to implement in the more than three decades that our system has been running.”
Tony Berta, Program Manager, Technical Quality, DLA Headquarters
