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Shipbuilding Partners and Suppliers(SPARS) Consortium

Enabling the Shipbuilding Virtual Enterprise(SPARS is a joint Industry & NSRP funded Project)

AFEI 9/24/2003Richard Bolton

Director@NIIIP.ORGWWW.NIIIP.ORG

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� National Shipbuilding Research Program

» Assist the U.S. shipbuilding industry in capturing a significantly increased share of the commercial market

» Improve Warship affordability for the Navy by reducing both acquisition and lifecycle cost

» Preserve the U.S. shipbuilding infrastructure by maintaining thecapability to respond to the future demands of military and commercial customers

NSRP

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NSRP Leadership

� Atlantic Marine Holding Co.� Avondale Industries, Inc.� Bath Iron Works Corp.� Cascade General� Electric Boat Corp.� Halter Marine, Inc.� Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc.� National Steel & Shipbuilding Co.� Newport News Shipbuilding� Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp.

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NSRP Structure & Operations

� Management» Executive Control Board-Shipyards» Contracting Agent-Advanced Technology Institute» Strategic Investment Plan-SIP (www.nsrp.org)» Research Announcements» Cooperative Agreements(Not FAR/DFAR)» Funding: 50% NAVY-50% Industry

� Operations» Major Initiative Teams-Drives SIP

– Shipyard Production Process Technologies– Business Process Technologies – Product Design and Material Technologies– Systems Technologies– Facilities and Tooling– Crosscut Initiatives

» Industry Panels-Industry Public Forum» Quarterly Reviews» Milestones

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� NIIIP --Project Manger� Electric Boat� NNS� Bath� Ingalls� Avondale� Todd Pacific� Leading Suppliers

» York, Eaton, Marotta, IMO, Lockheed Martin, US Steel,» W&O Supply, OVH, Aqua Chem, Leslie

� IBM-Technology � Alterum-Business Process Re-Engineering

SPARS Participants

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Challenge for US Shipbuilding

� The Shipbuilding Virtual Enterprise is challenged by:� 20,000+ Shipyards and Suppliers� Multiple incompatible Business Processes and IT systems� Redundant data entry efforts--no shared data between shipyards and

suppliers� Limited IS budgets and expertise, significant investment in human

resources to support multiple systems, many manual systems� Productivity impacted by manual business processes e.g.. errors and

delays in dissemination of information from manual/paper based systems

Todd

NASSCO Ingalls

Bath

GD-EB

Newport News

Avondale Halter

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SPARS Value Proposition

Provide a collaborative forum for shipyards and suppliers to develop and implement improved inter-organizational processes

Re-engineer shipyard-supplier business processes to remove paper, reduce labor content, and reduce cycle time.

Standardize processes/interfaces where appropriate and re-use results across multiple shipyards and suppliers to minimize costs and risks

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Shipyard-Supplier Process Flow-Before

Supplier 1Processes

Supplier 2Processes

Supplier 3Processes

Supplier 4Processes

Supplier1

Supplier 2

Supplier3

Supplier 4

Yard1

Yard 2

Yard3

Yard 4

Yard Processes

Yard Processes

Yard Processes

Yard Processes

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Shipyard-Supplier Process Flow-After

Supplier 1Processes

Supplier 2Processes

Supplier 3Processes

Supplier 4Processes

Supplier1

Supplier 2

Supplier3

Supplier 4

Yard1

Yard 2

Yard3

Yard 4

Yard Processes

Yard Processes

Yard Processes

Yard Processes

SPARS Virtual Enterprise Server

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SPARS Implementation

Internet

Prime

Supplier

Tier 1 Subcontractor

SPARSClient

Shipyard

SPARSServer

SPARSServerSPARS

Client

Supplier

Supplier

SPARSClient

SPARSClient

Tier 1 Subcontractor

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SPARS: Value Proposition

� Facilitates rapid and effective partnering amongst the US Shipbuilding Community for rapid response

� An open common infrastructure which is replicable and reusable across many users and projects reducing start up costs» Not Point-to-Point--Not “One Off”--Not Proprietary

� Minimizes reconfiguration costs by protecting legacy systems

� Information is captured once and used many times reducing overall costs, reducing errors,

� Shipyards are VE Gateways to the supply chain» Near “Turnkey”

� Secure and easy to use Internet based access

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SPARS Services

• Ability to establish Ad Hoc relationships for data exchange without extensive service infrastructures

• Ability to do business without obtaining specialized software

NIIIP SPARSVirtual Enterprise Servers

VE SERVER� Association of Business &

Technical Data in Bid Management Process

� Workflow management of complex multi-tier process

� Support of standards based business transaction formats via the WEB

� Technical data exchange services

� Collaborative tools

Secure Web

Server

WEBBrowser

WEB Browser

Supplier/Sub

WEB Browser

Shipyard

Customers

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ENGINEERINGCollaboration- Requirements- Specifications- Designs- Quality- Notes- Models

MANUFACTURINGCollaboration- Forecast- Schedules- Quality-

MATERIALSVIRVFIVBIDVPA

FINANCEInformation- Forecast- Actuals- Budgets- Policies/Procedures

CUSTOMER SERVICECollaboration- Product Information- Problem Tracking

INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY- Corporate Index/Information

MARKETINGInformation- Literature- Specifications- Delivery- Pricing

Internet

SUPPLIERS DESIGN PARTNERS

CUSTOMERS

Collaboration in the Large

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Shipyard

SPARS Structure

Shipyard Supplier

Multiple Business Processes on a single base

SPARS Virtual Enterprise Server

VendorFurnished

Info

Vendor Registry

Vendor Info

Request

Vendor DrawingReview

AuctionReverse-Auction

RFPRFQ

VendorProcessRequest

SPARS Server BaseDesktop (JSP), Security(SecureWay), Doc Mgmt, Directory (LDAP), Process Mgmnt

VendorTime &Material

Vendor Expedite

E-Business MiddlewareWebSphere Application Sever, DB2/UDB, MQSeries, Web Services, XSLT

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SPARS Architecture

CLIENT(At Supplier or Shipyard)

Desktop Functions (Browser)

VES

Application Server

Process Mgt. & EJBs

FIRST TIER SECOND TIER

WebServer WebServerSERVLET

InternalProcesses

Legacy Applications

THIRD TIER

Desktop Functions:- Business Forms - Workflow Activities - Documents/Folders- Authentication

SERVER Functions:IBM WebSphere, Process Mgt.,People Directory, Doc Directory, Doc Repository, EncryptionBusiness Processes:VIR, VBID, VFI, VPA ….

Legacy Applications:ERP, PDM, MRP

SHIPYARD

Firewall Firewall

Data ServerDirectory/ Repository

Firewall

SERVLETSERVLET/JSP

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WEBSRV

LegacyProcess

Server Certificate

WKflowSRV

Process

WEBSRV

N

HTML

N

HTML

Supplier A

Supplier B

IDSSRV

LDAPDIR

useridpwcertificates

DataStore

APPSRV

SHIPYARD

VESHTTPS (SSL – FIPS)

HTTPS (SSL-FIPS)

SPARS Security

Encrypted T1

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Award

SPARS Business Processes

Suppliers

Owner-Operator ShipyardPre-procure

ShipyardProcurement

ShipyardConstruction Delivery

Proposal

Team Build

SourceSelect

Delivery to Owner-Operator

RFP

SustainmentBuy,

ProcessManage

Suppliers Suppliers Suppliers

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SPARS Business Processes

Pre-Procurement ProcessesVendor Furnished Information (VFI

Procurement ProcessesVendor Bid (VBID)- Develop proposals and generating supplier responses for

engineered parts and components, Auction/Reverse AuctionVendor Quote (VQUOTE) Web enable selected legacy procurement processes

Contract Management Business ProcessesVendor Information Request(VIR) - suppliers request information or non-

conformances associated with material on purchase order.Vendor Procedure Approval Request (VPAR)- Supplier procedures ie: welding,

NDT, etc. Vendor Time and Material Request (VTMR) Time and Material accountingVendor Drawing Engineering Review (VDER)Vendor Expediting (VXPD) Manage the schedule and delivery process

SustainmentCondition Report (CR) A process to communicate ship repair requests from

operational ship to shipyardLife Cycle ManagementFull Service Contracting

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B2B Process

Supplier Info

Procurement

Contract Manage

Process Manage

Vendor Pay

Drawing Review

Manage Tooling

Expediting

4Q02 1Q03 2Q03 3Q03 4Q03 1Q04

SPARS Rollout

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SPARS at General Dynamics Electric Boat

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SPARS at EB-VIR

� Vendor Information Request (VIR) Challenge Problem� Supplier Initiated

» Change» Interpretation

� Scale and Scope» A Multipart Carbon Form

– Multiple levels of review and approval-Including USN– Interface to legacy Systems and Processes

» Seawolf Class– 25,000 +– 90 Days Cycle time– $1,500 + Cost– Tracking and management issues

� Current� Historical

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Suppliers Login to the SPARS VES using Internet Explorer BrowserSuppliers are invited to participate by the ShipyardsThere is no “Public” access

Web Browser Interface

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ITAR Notification

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Suppliers VIR creation screen

VIR Creation

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After clicking “Browse” from the creation VIR screen, multiple attachments may be added

Attachments

9/30/2003 26Completed VIR form with attachments ready for submission to EB

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Supplier Desktop reflects all documents they have created.Supplier can choose to see only those submitted and in progress,

or look up completed VIRs.

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Green Shaded area reflects data returned from EB to the supplierfrom our legacy systems

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EB Internal Workflow Process--User’s Homepage

E-Mail

Notification

Lotus

Notes

EB Internal VIR Processing

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This is the Users home page where all applications a user has access to are visible on the gray process bar.

SPARS Desktop

Shipyard Personnel or Suppliers would see onlythose applications they

have authorization to use.

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“Pop-Up Windows” allow the using community to view pertinent legacy system data without leaving the VIR application

Linking to EB Legacy Systems

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VIR Status Visible to All…...

VIR Routing

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Real Time Metrics

Allows effective management of the process

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The SPARS VES notifies suppliers by email of VIR completion within minutes of final disposition .

EB System update to SPARS VES

SPARS VESProvides the supplier many

different ways to lookup a VIR createdby their company

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Suppliers can view VIR disposition, associated attachments and have the capability to print or download the document .

View of Completed VIR

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(Newport News)

SPARS Supports Teaming

Teaming Shipyard, NGNNcan be granted access/visibility

by EBfor VIRS when thematerial is shipping

to NGNN

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Metrics after 1 Year & 6800VIR’s

Real timeLimitedVisibilityHoursDays-weeksAuditsOn demandWeeklyReporting0WeeklyMail Delay01 HourVIR Board hours101POLI per VIR01Daily Courier runs06Admin Log Entries11 Days90 DaysAverage Lead TimeAfterBefore

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Shipbuilding Partners and Suppliers(SPARS) Consortium Enabling the Shipbuilding Virtual Enterprise

(SPARS is a joint Industry & NSRP funded Project)

Richard BoltonDirector@NIIIP.ORG

WWW.NIIIP.ORG