Fuels On MJDI.
Fuels On MJDI.
Just to clear up the rampant rumour mill.
1. The MJDI requirement has NEVER been to account for Fuels in the base area, only on Ops, therefore primarlly in pillow tanks and APFC's not in fixed tankage (a much simpler target). The requirements for evaporative loss adjustments (F222) were never contracted and there never were any requirements on MJDI to meet pipeline figures, sullage, and all of the other things needed for full fixed installation fuels accounting.
2. The decision over what accounting system to use for bulk fuels in fixed locations is made by DFG, or whatever they are calling themselves this week as the licensing authority. Their current decision remains BFIS, though the hunt for a replacement is in the offing as BFIS the contract is due renewal. The only likely outcome of this process is that another COTS specialist fuels management package is selected (which may still be BFIS). The only certainty is that the answer to the question WILL NOT be MJDI for fixed locations as this has never been the target.
3. Fuels reporting was removed from SCCS (The BFRS Package) when the D of Q changed from Galons to Litres as SCCS could no longer cope with the numbers reported (all quantities increased by 4.5 overnight) - the max size the quantity fields that are copies of your unit records on SCCCS can hold is 999,999 for serviceable and 9,999 for repairable at a single unit.) Try bringing enough of an item onto charge to exceed these limits and SCCS blows up spectacularly, goes into a corner and sulks, refusing to process ANY further transactions for the item from your unit until the quantity is reduced by MAS. The R1 solution is, as it always has been - "use F1640 or non-SCC and manually account for the item". Most common failure in this area remains carpets and curtains.
4. For MJDI R5, the bulk fuels NSN's are manged on CRISP (The RN base inventory system), not SCCS which has no such field size limits because it doesn't hold a copy of your unit balances the way SCCS does, so MJDI R5 is perfectly capable of holding up to 9,999,999 litres of a single product at a single unit, which is enough to meet the deployed fuels accounting requirement.
5. If the organisation formerly known as DFG wished to institute soemthing like BFRS on MJDI/ MJDI MIS to provide a "global fuels state board" then this is possible, and if the quantity fields need expanding, then the change is relatively easy to achieve, because the limiting factor had always been SCCS, which is no longer the case with the switch in hosting to CRISP.
