MACFIN is a programme to improve the management of financial and materiel resources in the Finnish Defence Forces. It is harmonising and unifying processes and procedures between services and units, increasing functional integration inside Finnish Defence and introducing new capabilities to work more productively with defence industry. Big changes are made in the IT-architecture and infrastructure. A defence-wide ERP-system is replacing many old, tailored IT-systems.

During next presentations the theme, integration is dealt on several levels: organisational, functional and technical. Presentations are given by lt.col Jukka Ponsi, programme manager of MACFIN, from The Defence Staff and M.Sc (eng) Timo Markkula, delivery manager of Siemens, from Siemens Business Services.

08.30 – 08.50

Introduction to MACFIN. What is MACFIN; its objectives, goals and schedule?

Lt.Col Jukka Ponsi, Defence Staff

08.50 – 09.10

Preparing organisation for an ERP-system. How can you combine different needs and views of a large organisation? How can you unify and integrate processes through services and units?

Lt.Col Jukka Ponsi, Defence Staff

09.10 – 09.30

Organising a development programme. MACFIN –programme has (at the moment) six individual projects, 350 people working with it(including 50 consultants). How are responsibilities, tasks and communications organised and carried out between the line organisation and project organisation? How do we work to achieve the same goal?

Lt.Col Jukka Ponsi, Defence Staff

09.30 – 09.50

Break

09.50 – 10.10

Management of suppliers. MACFIN has two main contractors, one big product vendor and numerous other suppliers or subcontractors. Who is doing what and when?

Lt.Col Jukka Ponsi, Defence Staff

10.10 – 10.30

Introduction to mySAP.com. Introduction to technical and functional basics of mySAP.com –software. What is difference between SAP and “out of the box” –software?

M.Sc Timo Markkula, Siemens Business Services

10.30 – 10.50

Break

10.50 – 11.10

Integrating IT-systems of FDF. Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) has over 50 IT-systems in logistics and finance. Twenty of them are going to be replaced by mySAP.com. How do you make transition from non-integrated IT-infrastructure to more integrated structure? How mySAP.com is to be integrated and linked to legacy systems?

M.Sc Timo Markkula, Siemens Business Services

11.10 – 11.30

Management of a large IS delivery from the supplier's perspective. How an IT vendor should manage a large ERP delivery involving many
competencies? How a large international IT vendor such as Siemens can support a
large delivery process?

M.Sc Timo Markkula, Siemens Business Services

Biographies

Jukka Ponsi, FDF, Defence Staff, Logistics Division

Jukka is a chief of branch in Logistics Division of the Finnish Defence Staff. His branch is called Information Management of Logistics. The branch is coordinating development of logistical information systems and information management throughout the Finnish Defence Forces. Their main interest lies in life cycle management and how to support it with high quality information. At the moment their main task is to implement mySAP.com into Finnish Defence. Jukka has been working with that programme since 1996 as a programme manager.

Jukka is a board member in PLCS, Inc. –consortium, which is developing ISO 10303 STEP AP 239 Product Life Cycle Support. He is a Finnish representative in NATO’s Life Cycle Integration Group, Codification Committee and NATO CALS Management Board.

Jukka has started studies at the Lappeenranta University of Technology in the Department of Business Administration majoring knowledge management.

Timo Markkula, Manager Business Consulting, Siemens Business Services - Finland

Timo is a responsible person at SBS for Public and Utilities sectors. Siemens Osakeyhtiö’s SBS delivers ERP-, optimisation- and eBusiness solutions into local market and has also experience in global implementations. SBS’s interest is to deliver complete Business Solutions with needed integration with legacy IT-solution and processes with an eye to further operations.

Timo’s work career has been included with PDM (Product Data Management) & Production Planning consultative tasks and concept design/evaluation in diversified Industry Solutions eg. ERP environments. Timo has been working with MAHATA programme since RFP on February 2001; first as a Proposal Manager and afterwards as a SBS’s Delivery Manager.