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 Operation, Exercise, and Relocation Planning

Purpose

In addition to mapping the domestic base of armed forces, police, and aid organizations, and supporting their business processes, planning and executing operations and exercises is a key application area of the Defense Forces & Public Security component.

In order to execute operations and exercises from the domestic base, you use the organizational flexibility objects to map organizational structures for your operations and exercises, including their personnel and material resources, in the same way as for the domestic base itself.

You also carry out relocation planning to specify how you relocate the resources of the organizational elements in your operational structures or exercise targets to the area of operation/exercise.

Prerequisites

You are familiar with the organizational flexibility objects (force element, material planning object (MPO), and so on).

Process Flow

Operational Structure/Exercise Target

First, you map an operational structure or exercise target:

  1. If necessary, you create a separate root object for each operational structure or exercise target in order to store these structures in the system separately from domestic base structures.

  2. Below the root object, you specify the general properties of the operation or exercise on the basis of a force element.

  3. Below the leading force element, you specify the operational structure or exercise target on the basis of additional force elements.

  4. You define the authorized materials and personnel of the force elements.

See also Creating/Assigning Objects for Op. Structures/Exercise Targets . Alternatively, you can also define the authorized personnel in contingent planning .

Next, you assign personnel :

You assign persons from the domestic base to the positions in your operational structure or exercise target.

See also Personnel Assignment .

Relocation Planning

In order to carry out relocation planning for the resources of this operational structure or exercise target, the following requirements must be met:

  1. You define a relocation that essentially determines the period of the relocation process.

  2. You define relocation steps and assign these a type in order to specify which subsequent logistics processes are to be triggered by this relocation step.

You can now carry out relocation planning for the resources of your operational structure or exercise target:

  1. You assign the force elements to the required relocation .

  2. You assign this assignment between a force element and a relocation the required relocation steps and specify when this relocation step is to be carried out for this force element in this relocation.

  3. You assign the MPOs , equipment packages (EPAs) , provisions packages (PPAs) , and positions planned for the operation to these assignments between the force element, relocation, and relocation steps.

  4. You assign packing instructions to these assignments between the force element, relocation, and relocation steps.

  5. You make a rough workload estimate for the assigned personnel and material.

See also Relocation Planning .

  1. You plan the assigned MPOs in detail , on the basis of the force provider. See also Material Planning and Determination of the Supplier .

    Note Note

    For information about relocating material that is mapped as a technical object as well as by MPOs, and that is assigned using the transfer procedure, see Technical Objects .

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Result

You have carried out relocation planning for the operational structure or exercise target that you mapped.

You can now trigger the initial supply run for the force element (formation). Depending on the relocation step type, the required logistical follow-on documents are generated. See also Relocation of Material .

Note Note

The subsequent supply run for non-consumable goods is carried out in the Material Categories Planning application and by determining supply relationships in the same way as for the supply run in the domestic base.The subsequent supply run of individual and bulk consumable goods is carried out by means of evaluating reorder points and standard Materials Management functions.

An initial supply run of individual and bulk consumable goods can also be carried out without relocation . See also Logistical Requirements and Initial Supply .

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