# Presentation: 321064

## Facilities Data Base (FDB) 

***Phase II***
***MTAC Meeting***
***November 6, 2003***

**Facilities DataBase (FDB) – Strategic Goals**

- One valid source of Postal facility information for mailers and the Postal service
- Comprehensive accurate inventory of Postal facilities
- Consistent address, facility characteristics, products and services pertaining to a facility

## FDB Data

- Comprehensive accurate inventory of 40,000 Postal facilities
- Established unique Facility ID
- Permanent identifier for each facility
- Supports information linking across postal information systems
- Track facility categories
- Customer Service (Delivery, Retail, SCF)
- Mail Processing (Plants, Mail Processing Annex, PMPC)
- Network Facilities (BMC, AMC,HASP)
- Other (Warehouses, Field Offices, Engineering, etc)
- Consistent address information
- Static facility characteristics (Lobby config, directions, access restrictions, dock/loading detail, etc.)
- Products/Services – products/services offered, pertinent product/service data, service hours, etc.

**FDB fully operational – April 2004**

## Today

**AMS**

**Drop Ship Web**

**Facility Profile Survey**

- Facility Inventory List & Addresses

- Supplemental Facility Characteristic Data

- Mail Content Accepted at a Facility

**Business Implications:**

- Disjoint systems maintaining the same data
- Systems owned by different business customers
- One system contains DMM policy; the other reflects reality
- Lag time for creation and ship of Drop Ship Product adds to data discrepancy issue

**WebDSAS**

- Maintain facility inventory & addresses
- Accepts online updates to supplemental facility information
- Accept drop ship appointments
- Accept product content acceptance data

**Memphis**

**Network Operations**

**Drop Ship Product**

## Phase I – December 15, 2003

**(Security)**

**WebDSAS**

**Phase I – December 15, 2003**

**FMSWin**

**AMS**

- Leased/Owned Properties

- Facility Inventory & Addresses

- Delivery Operations: Customer Service Facility Data

- Inspection Service: Facility Security Data

- Facility Inventory & Addresses
- Supplemental Facility Characteristic Data

**Drop Ship Web**

- Mail Content Accepted at a Facility

- Consistent, current, & accurate facility inventory, addresses, and supplemental facility data
- Accept drop ship appointments specifying mail content detail

- External Mailers

**Business Implications:**

**Drop Ship Product**

**Memphis**

## Phase II – February 2004

**Web Drop Ship**

**Phase II – February 2004**

**FMSWin**

**AMS**

- Leased/Owned Properties

- Facility Inventory & Addresses

- Delivery Operations: Customer Service Facility Data

- Inspection Service: Facility Security Data

- External Mailers

- Consistent, current, & accurate facility inventory, addresses, and supplemental facility data
- Accurate reflection of mail content accepted at facility
- Redesigned user interface
- Accept drop ship appointments specifying mail content detail
- More timely Drop Ship information available via online download
- Feedback from mailers on data integrity and business impact
- Capability to download Drop Ship data

**Business Implications:**

- Online access to comprehensive drop ship information