Army Hosts Industry Day to Talk Enterprise Business Systems Convergence

Experts leading the Army’s Enterprise Business Systems – Convergence (EBS-C) effort hosted more than 500 attendees at their first virtual industry day Feb. 25.

Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) and the EBS-C Multi-Functional Capabilities Team (EBS-C MFCT) co-led the event, which focused on explaining the Army’s aim to partner with private industry to deliver a converged, single enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that manages acquisition, human resources, logistics, financial, environmental, and training and readiness enterprises.

“EBS Convergence is our opportunity to converge…the Army’s ERPs into a common modernized platform in the cloud,” said Ross Guckert, program executive officer at PEO EIS. “The converged system will do so much more than just improve business processes and sustainment operations. It will simplify the user experience, drive readiness, enable dominance during multi-domain operations and large-scale combat operations, reduce overall EBS operating costs, and enable reinvestment of resources to meet other Army Soldier readiness and modernization priorities.”

EBS-C is co-sponsored by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller (ASA(FM&C) and the U.S. Army Materiel Command. To support EBS-C, PEO EIS recently chartered the EBS-C Product Management Office.

“Developing a core enterprise system that integrates the needs of each business mission area represents an investment in the future of our force,” said Wesley Miller, senior official performing the duties of the ASA (FM&C). “EBS-C is working to create an ERP environment conducive to auditability, maximizing purchasing power, and providing real-time data for our leaders to make the most informed decisions—goals which support our commitment to the American taxpayer, and providing the very best to the Army mission. Industry day was a great way to further enhance collaboration for this major modernization effort.” 

More than 400 stakeholders across Army finance, logistics, human resources, and acquisition have partnered with EBS-C to ensure the Army identifies the necessary requirements before selecting an acquisition strategy and product solution that is embraced at all levels of the Army. The team expects to deliver a commercial off-the-shelf solution with an intuitive user-focused design that maximizes resource efficiency and effectiveness, while reducing task burden and increasing ease-of-use for Soldiers and Civilians.

Brig. Gen. Michael Lalor, EBS-C MFCT director, told industry day attendees, “We want to partner with you to innovate and integrate our systems so we can modernize now. We must drive the convergence of business capabilities to meet the demands of Soldiers operating in the Information Age and at the speed of war.”

Though requirements are still pending, the converged system is expected to host nearly 200,000 global users, process 75 million transactions a day, and execute a yearly total obligation of $178 billion.

The Army expects to initially deploy an integrated enterprise business system by 2023 that is fully operational by 2027.

“EBS Convergence will make our business processes more efficient while modernizing the business systems that are critical to building and projecting combat power,” said Guckert. “In short, it will be a game changer for the future U.S. Army.”

View the EBS-C industry day recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdOWtXjdeI

Visit the EBS-C PMO: https://www.eis.army.mil/programs/ebs-c