ESCAPE synopsis

**NOTE: This requirement is anticipated to be a small business set aside via the NETCENTS-2 Application Services SB vehicle.** ESCAPE's scope is to improve the Air Force's supply chain planning capabilities, enabling more effective warfighter combat support, and enhanced supply chain decision making. ESCAPE consists of the following mission area capabilities: Demand Planning - The Demand Planning process estimates customer orders and produces a collaborated demand plan for each segment of the supply chain. Demand Planning shall include the capability to provide independent (unscheduled) and dependent (scheduled) forecasts, forecasting algorithm expert selection, and for application of causal factors such as flying hours. Inventory Planning (or optimization) - Inventory Planning is the process of mapping the Demand Plan to location-specific inventory levels, subject to financial constraints. The Inventory Planning capability shall include achieving specified weapon system availability while simultaneously minimizing inventory investment. This shall be accomplished through Readiness Based Sparing principles and business rules. Supply Planning - Given inventory levels via Inventory Planning, the capability shall resolve how those levels are to be maintained. This shall be accomplished by producing a Supply Plan to drive repair, purchase and (re)distribution orders to correlate with future demands. Integral to supply planning is Distribution Planning. Distribution Planning is a key element in aligning assets to support immediate weapon system availability requirements (Not Mission Capable Supply) and proactively managing material shortages at maintenance locations. Exception Management - The capability shall include a robust error reporting and event management capability to alert users to pertinent information, and make autonomous recommendations to reconcile exceptions within discrete planner work queues. Performance Management - Consists of analytics, data stratification, metrics, reporting and dash-boarding capabilities to support root-cause and what-if analyses to be performed by the Government, as well as the Service Provider.