Background information – DFS/LSD
The United Nations Department of Field Support Logistics
Support Division (UN DFS-LSD) is responsible for implementing Supply Chain
Management in support of the Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and Field
Support (DPKO/DFS) missions as well as Special Political Missions (SPMs).
Background information – Job Specific
The United Nations
Department of Field Support provides dedicated support to international peace
operations, including to UN peacekeeping, special political and other field
missions. Through its four divisions, it supports the requirements of the
Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and Field Support (DPKO/DFS) missions as
well as Special Political Missions (SPMs).
DFS/LSD plays an integral role in the global
operations of the field missions. It is one of the fundamental infrastructure
components that support the substantive work and the delivery of peacekeeping
and special political missions’ mandates. Efficient and reliable logistics
support is a core strategic, operational and tactical pillar of field missions
and the United Nations at large. Therefore, ensuring that a robust and fault-tolerant
supply chain infrastructure is in place to sustain operations is a necessary
and permanent consideration.
The division is currently implementing an
‘end-to-end’ integrated supply chain management with a view to achieving DFS
vision of a well-managed and agile supply chain to support United Nations field
missions with effectiveness and efficiency. The overall supply chain management
process starts and ends with clients-development and management of consolidated
demand/requirements of all clients and fulfilment of client’s requirements
through strategic sourcing and delivery. The process is enabled by a robust
performance management framework and supported by solution such as Umoja.
Umoja is the project
approved by the General Assembly resolution 63/262 that aims at the
transformation of the United Nations Secretariat by enabling high-quality,
cost-effective service delivery to support the execution of evolving mandates
everywhere the Organization operates.
Umoja, which means
"unity" in Swahili, will unite the many support and administrative
entities throughout the Secretariat, including in peacekeeping and field
missions, through re-designed and common processes for the management of all
financial, human and physical resources; a single integrated information
system; and training of staff.
In February 2015,
LSD was designated as Umoja process owner for logistics. As logistics process
owner, LSD led Phase 1 of the supply chain management deployment of Umoja
Extension 2, also known as the Galileo Decommissioning Project that
successfully completed the deployment of Umoja supply chain solution to
peacekeeping and special political missions in September 2017, replacing the
Galileo system. The project was
implemented through a dedicated project team within LSD. Since January 2017, that project team was
merged with DFS IPSAS-Umoja team along with responsibility for coordinating an
expanded portfolio of Umoja deployments.
Known as the DFS Umoja Coordination Office, the team is responsible for
deploying multiple project streams to peacekeeping and special political
missions, including: UE2–Supply Chain Management (UE2-SCM) stream that include:
demand planning, supply network planning, transport management, track and trace
and material master transformation; the Strategic Planning and Performance
Management stream (covering budget formulation and relationships with donors
and implementing partners; conference and events management, force management
and planning
UNOPS has been requested to
assist in the implementation of this activity for DFS/LSD Umoja Coordination
Service.