U.S. Air Force

Governing the Military Supply Chain

Those who have trouble keeping track of things on their desk should try tracking 6,183 United States Air Force planes and all their millions of sophisticated parts. The task is made even more complicated by the sheer logistics involved in monitoring traffic at each of 184 air bases worldwide, logging every air mission, scheduling and recording maintenance, and inventorying surplus parts. When lives depend on having planes where you need them, when you need them-and in good working order-you can't afford to miss a beat.

"Before implementing the Teradata-based Air Force Enterprise Data Warehouse (AF EDW), there wasn't visibility on a timely basis."

Mike Riley, AF EDW program manager at the Air Force Material Command

The current U.S. Air Force (USAF) inventory includes over 42 types and hundreds of variants of aircraft, from the F-15 Eagle fighter to Air Force One, to many other search, rescue, combat and observation aircraft, as well as ground support equipment, simulators, trainers, pods, electronic gear and other components. USAF uses an enterprise data warehouse from Teradata to track millions of aircraft parts at 82 major bases worldwide, log every mission and schedule and record maintenance and perform 70 million-plus updates each month in near-real time.

Today with state-of-the-art data integration, USAF can quickly and confidently make accurate decisions that have the potential to affect countless lives. This gives commanders the strategic ability to know what's available to deploy, allowing them to make more rapid decisions.

 

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