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SUMMARY RGS consultants are helping senior Navy leadership in
CNI manage and coordinate Activity Based Costing/Management (ABCM)
implementation, sustainment, and use in the Navy's Shore Installation
Management (SIM) community.
THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE
HOW RGS HELPED
In 2001, OPNAV N46 (Ashore Readiness Division) retained RGS to
provide N46 HQ support and presence during the claimant-led ABCM
implementations within SIM. During this phase, RGS worked with OPNAV
staff to develop a strategic plan for SIM ABCM that recognized the
importance of a consistent model across claimants and regions.
Subsequently, the RGS team supported plan implementation at each region
performing ABCM. Plan execution helped ensure that model results would
be compatible and comparable across all SIM regions. The strategy also
called for best practices to be injected into the SIM ABCM program.
Throughout this phase, RGS leveraged its ongoing participation in the
Consortium of Advanced Manufacturing International (CAM-I) to work with
industry and academic experts and government practitioners to help
identify practices with a history of success and develop answers to the
issues facing SIM's ABCM program. OPNAV N46's new role, to provide
oversight of geographically and methodologically diverse "and
pre-existing "ABCM programs, characterized this phase. Project staff
recognized the need to increase program awareness and support within
OPNAV N46. RGS consultants took a collaborative approach that
emphasized client participation and flexibility in the levels and types
of support provided. This support, which served to promote OPNAV N46
ABCM goals and institutionalize the program, included ABCM training;
serving as a liaison between OPNAV N46 and the regions and claimants;
conducting baseline program assessments; and maintaining and providing
program status to the Shore Installation Programming Board, Regional
Commander Conference, and Installation Management Working Group. On
October 1, 2003, Navy shore establishments were consolidated under one
installation management claimant CNI. The ABCM project anticipated this
development and had already begun consolidating various ABCM programs
for management under CNI. During this phase, a "Way Ahead" meeting was
held with program managers to make key decisions and identify gaps to
address for the implementation of a single, standard ABCM model
throughout SIM. These key decisions are embodied in a command directive
that provides the background, vision, approach, and policy for ABCM
implementation at all 16 regions within CNI. This phase will also
involve the consolidation of ABCM application hosting, training, and IT
management and acquisition, centrally under CNI. The ABCM project will
develop the migration plans and requirements necessary to transition.
The ABCM project will also set forth a governance structure that will
ensure CNI continuously, effectively, and efficiently manages the
program.
BENEFITS DELIVERED
This project's outcome will be a comprehensive and
internally-compatible ABCM model implemented at every CNI region. The
model will facilitate the effective and efficient management of SIM
establishments by providing installation, regional, and HQ (summary)
level cost information that is accurate, comparable between regions,
and benchmarkable with other agencies and the private sector. The
project will also develop a program management structure that ensures
ABCM is sustained within CNI and is used to generate results. As a
result, SIM managers, program directors, and CNI decision-makers should
have an easy-to-use, intuitive, and informative system to provide the
cost data necessary to achieve the CNI's service delivery standard to
provide "Products/Services at the right place, at the right time, at
the right levels and at the right cost to achieve Fleet readiness."
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