SMART ERP Team garners "Computerworld" medal of achievement honors - Around NAVSUP

Navy Supply Corps Newsletter, July-August, 2003

MECHANICSBURG, PA -- The Supply Maintenance Aviation Reengineering Team Enterprise Resource Planning (SMART ERP) program was awarded Computerworld Magazine's Honors Medal of Achievement at a ceremony that took place at San Francisco City Hall on April 6, 2003.

The Computerworld Honors Medal of Achievement is presented annually to organizations around the world that have made "outstanding progress for society through the visionary use of information technology," according to event organizers. Deloitte Consulting, one of SMART ERP's industry partners, nominated the program for inclusion in the magazine's 2003 Government and Non-Profit Organizations category.

A joint venture between the Naval Supply Systems Command and the Naval Air Systems Command. SMART ERP is a pilot program that replaces outdated supply, maintenance, and financial management systems with a modern, responsive, accurate, and integrated system. SMART ERP improves parts management, providing total asset visibility, increasing inventory modeling capability, and facilitating data sharing among commands. The single software and process solution for E-2C Hawkeye aircraft and LM-2500 marine gas turbine engines incorporates maintenance, supply, and financial operations in one system.

On Jan. 3, the SMART ERP program went live for 440 users at the Regional Supply Office, Norfolk, Va., the Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Detachment, Norfolk, the Naval Inventory Control Point in Philadelphia and Mechanicsburg, Pa., and the Naval Aviation Depot, North Island, San Diego.

"The SMART solution is a vital component of the Navy's ERP Convergence Plan that will help our leadership make more informed decisions in real time," noted Kevin Fitzpatrick, SMART ERP's Program Executive at NAVSUP. "It is an honor to be recognized for being a part of this revolutionary change in Department of Navy business practices."

The nomination is now a case study that is part of a collection of over 300 case studies that will be archived in libraries, museums, and academic and research institutions around the world. Each of ten categories is judged annually by a panel of independent judges in a search for the five best examples of the work being done that year. These fifty finalists were honored on June 2 at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

For more information on SMART ERP please go to the NAVSUP website at http://www.navsup.navy.mil/smart/.