The "Information Services" delivered by LA IPT include:
- Development of Applications (Software) to collect, process and present Logistic Information to meet user requirements.
- Development of Applications (software) to provide an e-Purchasing capability for MOD users.
- Ensuring that Hardware, Networks and Communications are in place to deliver Logistic and Information and e-Purchasing Capability to users.
- Ensuring that Through Life Support is in place to maintain the required services to users
- Working with Customers to ensure that Business Processes and Applications are developed in a coherent manner.
- Ensuring that service delivery is consistent with Departmental Processes and Architectures.
LA IPT will work to improve the integration of the applications to deliver more efficient and effective services to users
LA IPT provide the e-Enablers that support the implementation of the Logistic and Purchasing Processes.
LA IPT Purpose
The Logistic Applications Integrated Project Team came into being on 1 April 2002, by drawing together the three single service Logistic IS organisations then in existence. The new organisation was placed in the Defence Communications Service Agency (DCSA), itself a part of the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) and a Next Steps Agency of the Ministry of Defence.
LA IPT is thus responsible to the CE DCSA for all outputs, quality and processes. During early 2002 the team underwent a further transformation, transferring all provider elements into a separate Applications Service Provider in the DCSA. In April 2007, the DCSA will lose its Agency status and will change its title to Directorate General Information Systems and Services (DG ISS) within the new Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) organisation.
LA IPT is split into six different management areas, each headed by an Assistant Director (AD). These areas are:
- Requirements
- Future Delivery – Operational Systems
- Future Delivery – Base Systems
- Service Management
- Commercial
- Future Logistics Information System – Delivery Project (FLIS DP)
LA IPT responsibilities are discharged by over 300 staff from a variety of specialisations: Civilian and tri-Service military project staff, commercial staff, financial staff, customer service managers, business managers and industry partners. LA IPT staff are located in Andover, Abbey Wood, Bath (Foxhill and Warminster Road) Bicester, Brampton, Boscombe Down, Corsham, Henlow, Stanbridge, Stevenage, Warminster, Warwick and Yeovilton.
Key Customers
The key customers for LA IPT are:
Sponsors – DEC ELS/CC&II (Defence Equipment Capability Expeditionary Logistic Support/Command Control & Information Infrastructure)
Users – DG Log SC and DG Log Info (Director General Logistics Supply Chain and Director General Logistics Information)
LA IPT Functional Areas
Requirements – As the Front Door to the IPT they provide complete and consistent system requirement documents and system requirement statements within a coherent technical architecture framework to the Future Delivery and Service Management branches within the LA IPT and advice on user requirements to the LA IPT customers
Future Delivery (Ops) – Delivering Logistic IS solutions in support of Defence Operations (Material Flow and Engineering and Asset Management) through adaptive change (this refers to major enhancements or upkeep for Log IS) process.
Future Delivery (Base Systems) – Managing the Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Timely (SMART) Acquisition delivery of information and integration solutions, developed by suppliers, to customers in the Base Systems area. Programmes include Purchasing, Contracts & Finance and Integration/Static Inventory and a coordination function.
Service Management – Sustaining in-service Logistic Information System (application) services in accordance with agreed service levels and DCSA Service Management policy through the effective management (based on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) functions) of those services from a number of external and internal suppliers.
Commercial – Providing commercial support for the delivery and sustainment of the IPTs outputs.
Future Logistics Information System Delivery Project (FLIS DP) – To deliver optimum, output driven, logistics IS sourcing arrangements that will support the delivery of converged Defence Logistics capability across the MoD.
Additionally, Finance and Business Management report directly to the IPTL.
