The United Nations Department of Field Support, Logistics Support Division (UN D...
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).
In 2015 the USG DFS signed off on a vision, strategy and implementation roadmap for Supply Chain Management (SCM) in field support. The Supply Chain Management Vision for DFS is to implement ‘a well-managed and agile supply chain to support UN Field Missions with effectiveness and efficiency’. Having started as one of the four pillars of the Global Field Support Strategy (GFSS), the SCM strategy will be rolled out to missions in the years ahead. SCM offers a proven approach for optimizing the chain of activities that bring goods and services from source to clients. The SCM strategy is expected to deliver improvements in efficiency, responsiveness, effectiveness and client satisfaction along the field support supply chain.
The planned end-state of supply chain management (SCM) for the Department of Field Support (DFS) is to evolve from the current state of supply chain process, where planning and management processes take place solely within functional areas and individual missions, to an integrated end-to-end process. A series of process maps have been developed of the future state of the DFS plan, source, deliver and return supply chain processes. These process maps are based on the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, which uses a simple, effective framework to assess and improve organizational supply chains based on core functional processes including plan, source, deliver, return and enable.1 These five process areas align closely with the three functional areas adopted in the SCM Vision & Strategy: planning, execution (source, deliver and return) and monitoring & control (enable).
UNOPS has been requested to assist in the implementation of this activity.