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Defense Logistics Agency
Clothing and Textile Supply Chain
Update
March 16, 2007
Defense Logistics Agency
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Agenda
• Overview of Clothing and Textiles (C&T)
Supply Chain
• Make up of the Industrial Base
• Investment Plan for FY 07
• Recent Outreach Efforts
• Virtual Vendor Management
• ACU Update
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Clothing & Textiles Supply Chain
Sales
FY 01 - $1.0B
FY 02 - $1.3B
FY 03 - $1.7B
FY 04 - $2.2B
FY 05 - $2.2B
FY 06 - $1.9B
Customers / Items
Customers: 14,000
Orders: 3,600,000 / year
Items: 31,000
The Big Picture
Obligations
FY 01 - $1.1B
FY 02 - $1.6B
FY 03 - $2.8B
FY 04 - $2.0B
FY 05 - $2.0B
FY 06 - $1.6B
Personnel
Employees: 302 civilian
+ 8 Military
+ 2 Europe
+ 50 interns
Suppliers: 858
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Clothing & Textiles
A Unique Commodity
Large
$386.69M
UNICOR
$93.3M
Sized items
NIB
$51.9M
Example, Combat Boot – 133 sizes
Men’s Army Dress Coat – 65 sizes
Airman Battle Uniform – 155 sizes
Military unique
Small Business
NISH
$143.7M
Most clothing on a specification
$1011.24M
Service driven requirements
Simple garments to complex protective clothing (Chem Suits)
Industrial Base – Strategic Supplier Issues
Small Business driven
Mandatory Sources
National Industry for the Blind (NIB)
National Industry for the Severely Handicapped (NISH)
Federal Prisons (UNICOR)
Socioeconomic Obligations (Hub Zones, 8(a), Set-Asides)
Best Value Long Term Contracts
During peacetime, over 95% of our contracts are long term / best value
contracts
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C&T Investment Plan FY07
By Major Grouping
FY07
Plan
Dress Clothing
$165.1M
Field Clothing
$492.9M
Individual
Equipment
$581.6M
Organizational
Clothing
$481.8M
Total
$1,721.4M
• Expenditure History
– FY 05 = $2.088B
– FY 06 = $1.613B
– FY 07 = $1.70 B
(planned)
– Anticipated that
expenditures will level at
$1.4B-$1.5B over the
next 5 years
• Plan adjustments:
– Based on actual sales
– Customer collaborative
forecasts
– New item introductions
Adjustments made thru the use of automated demand and supply tools
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C&T Investment Plan FY 07
By Minor Grouping
• Dress Uniforms
– Shirts & Headwear
– Outerwear
– Dress Uniforms
• Individual Equipment
$29.0M
$76.5M
$59.9M
• Field Uniforms
– Accessories
– Camo uniforms
– Footwear
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Heraldics
Equipment Items
Safety Items
Tentage
$9.4M
$305.9M
$127.9M
$138.4M
• Organizational Clothing
$126.1M
$239.6M
$127.2M
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Chemical Protective
Cold Weather Gear
Gloves
Special Purpose
$189.8M
$117.6M
$69.7M
$104.6M
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Recent Outreach Efforts
• Meeting with Member Military Liaison Assistants 12 February
2007
• Working Group partnering with American Apparel & Footwear
Association (AAFA)
– Recurring Meeting approximately every 60 days.
– Objectives of the effort:
• An assessment of specific C&T industry skill sets in jeopardy
• The impact of those diminishing skills sets on the readiness
• Once assessments complete, a timeline and a path forward
for preserving domestic production capability
• Summit with Industry and the Services to discuss
requirements will convene in the next 60 days.
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Continuing the Dialogue
• Potential topics include:
– Timeliness of contract awards & delivery orders
– Protection against uncontrollable cost increase in
multiyear contract
– IDIQ Min-Max ranges
– Providing forecasts to Industry
– Source Sampling and Shade Evaluation
– Use of Supply Chain Manager
– Review System for Better and Prompt Payment
Options
– Continued support of domestic manufacturing laws
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Virtual Prime Vendor (VPV)
• VPV is a logistics management system
Travis VPV
• In operation since 1998 - excellent track record
Not shipped
On time =
No pay!
Late
0.8%
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• Establishing a new Virtual Vendor Manager (VVM)
at each Recruit Center
On Time
99.2%
* Chart Represents 35.5 Months Of Operation
DLA continues to manage
contracts with C&T Industrial Base
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MC San Diego
MC Parris Island
NTC Great Lakes
Lackland AFB
Ft. Jackson
Ft. Sill
Ft. Len Wood
Ft. Knox
Ft. Benning
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RTC/CIIP
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VPV Site
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Lion Vallen – All Army
Travis NIB – AF& MC
Peckham NISH – Navy
VPV Objective: Linking Supply and Demand
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