Filling the Materiel Management Gap

[...]the solution gave specific logistics planning and execution responsibilities to the division and brigade staffs. The Army also still lacks adequate business intelligence/business warehouse (BI/BW) capabilities to allow for analytic forecasting, a logistics common operational picture, supply chain management visibility, and synchronization from the strategic to tactical levels. [...]the staff is forced to focus almost exclusively on day-to-day operations rather than managerial analytics. Materiel. Since the divestiture of BCS3, the Materiel Common Operating Picture has served as an interim solution for some BI/BW capabilities.