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Visual Supplier Assessment & Analysis Modules (VSAAM) at a Glance

VSAAM is ACC's signature product...

  • Visualize your supply chain to increase program synergies and efficiencies
  • Trace supplier relationships within all your programs
  • Quickly assess man-made and natural disaster impacts to your supply chain
  • Discover untapped suppliers to meet your program and diversity needs
  • Correlate congressional and economic impacts within your supply chain
  • Graphically correlate your bill of material with parts availability and historical usage
  • Visualize system funding and surge impacts to your program
  • Optimize return on investment across multiple funding scenarios

Supplier Visibility

Visualize your supply chain to increase program synergies and efficiencies.

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The Supplier Visibility Module (SVM) presents a visual representation of the entire supplier base. The value of visibility is based on having a complete view of everything going on - V-SAAM offers that visibility.

SVM provides better visibility into geographical operations and distribution networks. The entire supply chain is displays on the map with each supplier pin-pointed in its current geographical location.

  • A picture is worth a thousand words. What will your supply chain say with a world-wide depiction of your supply chain
  • Get the most out of your existing enterprise systems by incorporating data without duplicating existing information
  • Correlate your corporate data with external data sources such as Central Contractor Registry, Veteran Information Pages, and the Small Business Administration via the Virtual Data Warehouse
  • Instantly view suppliers by program, product line, or other internal designations

Supplier Relationship

Trace supplier relationships within all your programs

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The Supplier Relationship Module (SRM) provides a visual representation of supplier relationships to the lowest tier – who feeds what to whom.

The SRM allows you to trace the supply chain and assess impacts both up and down the supply chain.

  • Immediately trace supplier paths to visualize supplier relationships
  • Get the most out of your existing enterprise systems by incorporating data without duplicating existing information
  • Identify supplier dependencies
  • Discover new supply paths

Supplier Disaster Assessment Module

Quickly assess natural and man-made disaster impacts to your supply chain.

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The Supplier Disaster Assessment Module (SDAM) provides a graphical view with supply chain impacts associated with natural or man-made disasters. SDAM enables the user to quickly assess and respond to production flow impacts within the supply chain as a result of a natural or man-made disaster.

  • Comprehensive hurricane tracking with visual trajectory forecasting
  • Rapidly access wildfire and earthquake disasters
  • Create user defined shapes around man-made disasters
  • Instantly view suppliers by program, product line, or other internal designations
  • Correlate with enterprise data to assess suppliers and their deliverables
  • Narrow focus on your most critical suppliers
  • Produce action lists to execute contingency plans

Supplier Legislative Module

Correlate congressional and economic impacts within your supply chain.

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The Supplier Legislative Module (SLM) provides detailed legislative information about each district and state as it relates to the suppliers in that district or state. Users have the ability to view suppliers within each congressional district of any state on the map.

SLM correlates economic data by state or district including prime contract dollars and number of employees by district.

  • Running totals of contract dollars by state and congressional district
  • Provide insight to your legislative offices of employment numbers by state or district
  • Identify key Senators and Representatives by state
  • Current Congressional committee membership information
  • Direct link to Congressional websites

Supplier Discovery Module

Discover untapped suppliers to meet your program and diversity needs.

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The Supplier Discovery Module (SDM) incorporates proven web technologies to capture supplier and supplier capabilities into the virtual data warehouse. Using a learning lexicon focused on your organization’s needs, the SDM ranks newly discovered and existing suppliers by capability and category (8(a), Hub Zone, etc.). Your organization can then invite suppliers to complete a focused capabilities survey to more accurately capture supplier capabilities and score their rankings.

  • Discover untapped suppliers to meet your program and diversity needs
  • Use modifiable learning lexicon to search for suppliers that meet specific classification criteria

Supplier Assessment Module

Correlate supplier assessments to view your supply chain capabilities.

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The Supplier Assessment Module (SAM) correlates with your internal procurement system and other external sources to enhance your view of supplier capabilities. SAM is a proactive approach to identify and resolve potential problems before they can affect the entire supply chain.

A breakdown in the system affects the entire supply chain. This fact alone makes the importance of a structured supplier assessment program more critical than ever.

  • Easily key in on suppliers by various assessment levels
  • Identify poor performers in order to create or implement supplier improvement plans
  • Never overlook your high value suppliers

Component Visibility Module

Graphically correlate your bill of material with parts availability and historical usage.

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The Component Visibility Module (CVM) provides an interactive graphical representation of an electronic bill of material and correlates parts availability, usage, alternate suppliers, and supplier issues.

  • View an interactive graphical representation of an electronic bill of material
  • Correlate bill of material with internal usage data
  • Drill in to complete assemblies all the way down to the nuts and bolts
  • Potentially identify obsolescence issues

Predictive Analysis Module

Visualize system funding and surge impacts to your program.

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The Predictive Analysis Module (PAM) allows the user to perform funding and surge analysis. These “what-if” scenarios enable the user to assess impacts to the supply chain associated with potential changes in funding or workflow.

  • Perform what-if scenarios to predict outcome based on alternate funding programs
    • Compare spending dollars on redesign vs. new purchase
    • Compare repair capability vs. usage
  • View Stock On Hand predictions graphically
  • Perform surge scenario’s consisting of fleet flying hours and percentage of hours in combat

System Optimization Module

Optimize return on investment across multiple funding scenarios.

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The System Optimization Module (SOM) enhances the decision process associated with funds allocation across multiple projects. SOM enables the user to define multiple scenarios and optimize the return on investment.

  • Optimize return on investment across multiple funding scenarios
  • View hierarchal relationships within your system
  • View obsolescence priorities across all systems