Australia recently moved towards a tri-service logistics control strategy for its air force, army and navy to organize and manage the $5.3 billion of assets and inventory, and to process more than 16 million transactions a year.

The object is to improve visibility and control over ADF's assets and inventory as well as deliver greater financial accountability and improvements to supply chain integrity.

Ellipse underpins the mission-critical military logistics information system for 9,000 users across 160 sites within Australia and abroad, a statement from Mincom said.

The contract was completed under Phase 2B.1 of the multi-phased Joint Project 2077 logistics upgrade strategy for better supply chain management, from barracks requirements to military field operations. The ADF has around 55,000 full-time active-duty personnel and 25,000 active reservists.

The ADF's fully NATO-compliant Military Integrated Logistics Information System catalog and inventory practices underpin the force's interoperability with coalition forces.

"The successful deployment of MILIS is the most significant phase of ADF's $650 million program to completely transform its logistics environment, and represents a significant milestone for both Mincom and the ADF," Greg Clark, chief executive of Mincom, said.

"Not only will this new system revolutionize the application of military logistics for all services within the Australian defense infrastructure, but it can serve as a best-practices model for other defense organizations around the world as they move away from stovepipe custom applications and mature their joint-logistics capabilities."

Simulation tests to mitigate business and technical issues were done using more than 3,000 concurrent users at the IBM PSSC Montpellier Customer Center in France before the software was run in parallel at the ADF.

Mincom will be working on the next phase, 2B.2, of the JP2077 logistics upgrade. The 2B.2 phase will supply a deployable version of MILIS that can operate when communications are interrupted for various reasons, such as happens on navy ships and submarines.

After that, phase 2C kicks in to provide automated stores tracking through radio frequency identification enabled capabilities.

"We look forward to continuing our long-standing partnership with the ADF as we move to the next phase of this significant project," Clark said.

Global software provider Mincom is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, and has offices around the world, including in Denver.

Mincom clients in the mining, defense, energy and public infrastructure sectors include Anglo American, Thales, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Boeing, London Underground, EDF Energy, Caterpillar and Ecopetrol.

Also this month, Mincom signed a deal with international mining and natural resources company Cliffs Natural Resources, listed on the New York and Paris exchanges. Cliffs will standardize its global mining operations on Mincom's Ellipse and its Critical Inventory Optimization analytics software.

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