Update 10/28: CG-8 signed ORD yesterday, Sponsor’s Rep and I hand delivered it to CG-01 this morning.
Quick post today to bring you up to speed on the progress of the ORD. I’d told you in a previous post about the changes that were made prior to CG-9 signing it. The CFO also needed to make a few clarifications prior to signing it. I shared some of that discussion in this post.
After a few followup meetings, we three more changes to the text of the ORD. The ORD has been updated in CG Portal and on slideshare.
The changes were on pages 15-18 (17-20) of the PDF. The changes clarify the integration between CG-LIMS as a logistics system and our future financial system that will be part of the DHS TASC implementation. The bottom line for the team is
- the role of CG-LIMS in requisition / procurement process will be to create and transmit the demand signal
- we want to interface with TASC as soon as we’re able and not necessarily wait until the fourth segment.
Below are the updated sections of the ORD. The parts we added are in bold text.
ACMS is a module in ALMIS that integrates a level of configuration and maintenance functionality in such a way that it would be extremely difficult and costly to replace one functional part without the other while maintaining satisfactory support for assets. Consequently, CG-LIMS Segment 1 is targeting the whole of ACMS for replacement and includes the maintenance management requirements. Until the Coast Guard implements a FSIO compliant core accounting system, CG-LIMS will interface with the existing accounting system to post accounting transactions. CG-LIMS will integrate with the FSIO compliant core accounting system if the system is available in this segment.
Current AMMIS architecture provides opportunity to target supply chain management functionality in a discrete segment. Segment 2 shall incorporate the SCM requirements and integrate with Segment 1 according to the Internal Interface requirements and the OV-5 process models in Appendix C. Until the Coast Guard implements a FSIO compliant core accounting system, CG-LIMS will interface with the existing accounting system to post accounting transactions. CG-LIMS will integrate with the FSIO compliant core accounting system if the system is available in this segment.
Segment 4 shall include the integration between CG-LIMS and the expected FSIO compliant integrated accounting system. The integration of CG-LIMS and the expected FSIO compliant integrated accounting system will be included in Segments 1 and/or Segment 2, if the FSIO compliant integrated accounting system is available in Segment 1 and/or Segment 2. Segment 4 shall be deferred until the Coast Guard has completed enough of the financial transformation effort to warrant integration to the FSIO compliant integrated accounting system.
The ORD should soon be on it’s way to the last three folks on the signature page: Chief of Staff, Vice Commandant, and DHS Under Secretary for Management.
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