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Education And Training As Part Of An Expeditionary Combat Support System Implementation Strategy, Thomas M. Sprague
Education And Training As Part Of An Expeditionary Combat Support System Implementation Strategy, Thomas M. Sprague
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One current venture of the United States Air Force (USAF) is the implementation of the largest ever single-instance of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. This project, dubbed Enterprise Combat Support System (ECSS), has the potential to integrate the USAF worldwide supply chain and make transparent the currently cloudy connections between parts, people and processes. Unfortunately, ERP implementations are rife with potential problems and there is no guarantee of successfully implementing ECSS unless the USAF properly manages these problems. One problem area the USAF must manage is ERP education and training. According to the literature, this area is consistently underestimated. …