Common Food Management System
What is CFMS?
The Common Food Management System (CFMS) is a joint initiative between DLA, its Military Service customers, and other organizations, including JSJ4, OSD, BTA, and DISA, to provide a tightly integrated Class I, Subsistence supply chain that will provide end-to-end linking of Warfighter demand with sources of supply. CFMS uses a best of breed Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product to provide core food management functionality, such as recipe, nutrition linking, menu planning, food production, and inventory management, to support garrisons and deployed units worldwide. With STORES, it represents a single, virtual retail and wholesale food system, replacing existing legacy food management systems with one DoD-supported system.
Specific Services benefits from CFMS include:
- Common system for all Services reduces system maintenance and support costs.
- Enhanced menu planning functionality will improve the Services' capability for predicting the appropriate quantity of food required, thereby reducing spoilage and improving inventory carrying costs.
- Integrated with STORES and Financial Systems, providing one entry point for orders, receipts, and funding commitments and obligations.
- Enterprise reporting allows management to easily review food management performance down to the Dining Facility level.
- Compliant with the Standard Financial Information Structure (SFIS) and Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA) requirements.
- Compliant with stringent Information Assurance requirements for emerging systems.