The JSC plays a key role in linking DE&S to the Armed Forces, ensuring there is adequate support for the equipment and personnel on the front line.
There are currently 6 business areas within the JSC:
• Supply Chain Support (SCS): provides specialised support services, policy formulation, programmed change and authoritative guidance in supply chain disciplines
• Commodities Cluster: ensures the front line is equipped with fuels, clothing, food and medical supplies
• DSCOM: ensures a timely delivery of materiel and support to the front-line
• DSDA: storage, distribution and processing organisation
• British Forces Post Office (BFPO): mail and post office counter services to forces personnel and their dependents
• Disposal Services Authority (DSA): provides disposals and sales service
As part of PACE initiative90, the JSC will to undergo a number of reforms over the next four years. These changes aspire to create a seamless, end-to-end (E2E) JSC, which works more closely with a number of other areas within DE&S and the MoD to ensure effective through-life planning.
The new structure will consist of the following components:
• Operations Support Function: management of the end to end supply chain, which DSCOM will be responsible for running
• Supply Chain Management91: provide clear JSC strategy and planning capability for key stakeholders (IPTs, MoD centre)
• Through-Life Support team92: provide policy, assurance, guidance and advice to aid effective and affordable through life support solutions to be developed
• Logistics Network Enabled Capability (Logs NEC) Programme Team: a new approach for delivering, managing and exploiting E2E information from OEM to 1st line
• Integrated Provider Group (IPG): merger of DSDA, BFPO and DSA
• Commodities: unchanged from current structure
• Business Support Group (BSG): support and advise Director JSC, provide strategic direction and coherence for the operating centre and functional direction, advice and support to business units
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90 Performance, Agility, Confidence & Efficiency initiative, for further detail see Chapter 8 and Appendix C
91 Renaming of SCS as at April 2009
92 Joined JSC team from DGS&E as at April 2009