Logistics Information In The Army: The Global Combat Support System-Army

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Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced (PBUSE) was introduced to the Army in 2001 from the Communications Electronic Command (CECOM) and Software Engineering Center (SEC-LEE) based at Ft. Lee, Virginia to upgrade the Army’s property accounting system Unit Level Logistics Supply System (ULLSS). PBUSE platform is based on Oracle platform that could improve performance, scalability, and flexibility. This system would improve the echelons from property book level, staff level, and unit levels. Vital logistics information could be used all over the world via a secure connection. Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army) is a single operation system ran by the Systems, Applications and Products (SAP) that has the capability of handling
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The program’s emphasis is on logistics, strategic applications, supplies, and materials. The users of GCSS-Army systems are normally logistics soldiers tasked to support Army maneuver units, Department of Logistics organizations providing installation support and maintenance support activities National Maintenance Program. The Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army) Program located in at Ft. Lee, VA, has been established by PEO-EIS PM-GCSS-A and our engineering partner, Northrup Grumman, to provision the logistics of the warfighter. The program is being conveyed across two tiers and each tier into fielding groups beginning with the finance portion and Standard Army Retail Supply System or SARRS. The next tier would be with PBUSE and Standard Army Maintenance System Enhanced or SAMS-E.
The detailed services that are very intimate with the conversion process involves deployment management, organizational change of management, data cleansing, migration, user access management, GCSS-Army communications, establishment of users/super users, reengineering of business processes and data management, scope of training, deliveries and development, job aid creations, training materials for deploying epilogue, audit compliance, and operations of help desk

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