Next Generation Supply Chain Management
Optimizing Readiness with Sustainable, Digital Solutions
KBR has more than 40 years of experience delivering high-end global, integrated supply chain solutions that ensure mission readiness and productivity no matter the location. Utilizing deep domain experience, leading edge business systems, processes, and next generation digital technology, KBR safeguards and sustains nearly $8 billion of assets associated with government and commercial facilities, and ground combat equipment. KBR’s sustainability-led supply chain services focus on demand planning, strategic sourcing, vendor performance management, carrier management, warehousing, inventory management, metrology, and first article inspection, as well as production and asset management.
KBR has more than 40 years of experience delivering high-end global, integrated supply chain solutions that ensure mission readiness and productivity no matter the location. Utilizing deep domain experience, leading edge business systems, processes, and next generation digital technology, KBR safeguards and sustains nearly $8 billion of assets associated with government and commercial facilities, and ground combat equipment. KBR’s sustainability-led supply chain services focus on demand planning, strategic sourcing, vendor performance management, carrier management, warehousing, inventory management, metrology, and first article inspection, as well as production and asset management.
Area of Expertise
In the face of changing needs and conditions, KBR maintains reliable access to critical supplies using innovative logistics business practices that align with government-approved systems. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, KBR’s integrated, global supply chain enables mission readiness and sustainment wherever the U.S. Government and commercial industry need us to go.
Demand-Planning Expertise:
KBR’s integrated, digital tracking, and management system ensures successful acquisition of material and services which allows us to provide our clients with fit-for-purpose solutions.
Strategic Sourcing:
KBR’s global network of vendors enable rapid deployment of resources, even to the most austere of environments. KBR leverages our U.S. government-approved procurement system which allows us to navigate quickly through FAR-compliant procedures to create a distinct competitive advantage.
Vendor Performance Management:
Continual vendor performance assessment and managing a healthy base of fully vetted and pre-evaluated vendors is critical to successfully managing supply chain activities and ensuring on time delivery for any project . This enhances our ability to match source of supply, carriers, and delivery windows to ship exactly what was ordered, all of which allow KBR to maintain price competitiveness.
Global Material Distribution and Transportation Network:
KBR’s global freight management and freight forwarding partners facilitate rapid and sustainable movement of material anywhere in the world.
Warehouse Solutions:
KBR’s inventory management and warehouse storage solutions provide total asset visibility to all customers and uses machine learning restock algorithms and distribution planning methods to assist in contingency operations and overall demand-planning.
Next Generation Asset Management:
Government agencies trust KBR’s Asset Ikigai® technology to strategically operate and maintain more than 8,700 structures and $8 billion worth of assets throughout the world for training, testing, and additional operations. KBR’s solutions help customers increase asset utilization, improve reliability, lower total cost of ownership, and reduce risk of equipment failure.
Productivity Solutions:
KBR’s Asset Ikigai® solution, powered by artificial intelligence and machine-learning, allows KBR to sustainably prioritize needs to ensure productivity on all levels.
Supply Chain Resiliency:
A dependable supply chain can mean the difference between delay and definitive success. KBR utilizes the safest and most efficient means to manage risk and ensure inventory accuracy and speedy delivery. This is made possible by KBR’s in-house supply chain management team, which has years of global experience optimizing the people, processes, and tools needed for mission success.
Data Analytics:
Data-driven supply chain management with built-in key performance indicators (KPIs) and continuous data analytics enables us to identify trends and risks early in the process while simultaneously providing business decision-making support to enhance our supply chain performance.
Control Tower:
KBR’s team of specialists maintains international control tower freight management capabilities to assist the movement and distribution of assets around the world.
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