FPI: Clothing

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FPI Clothing Textiles
Marie France Vareilles General Manager November
2005
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FPI UNICOR

• Established in 1934
• FPI is a Program not a Business
• Real output inmates less likely to return to
  crime
• Products and Services are by-products

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FPI UNICOR

• More new inmates
• Longer sentences
• Significant challenges

182,000
650
1930
1980
2004
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What Has Not Changed

• Nearly 20,000 inmate workers in program more to
  employ every day
• 50 of earnings paid toward court-ordered fines,
  victim restitution inmate family support 3
  million in annual inmate deductions

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FPI UNICOR

• Sales 1/5 of 1 of government purchases
• Negligible private sector impact
• Operates at no cost to taxpayers

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UNICOR Today

• New realities require a new way of doing business
• Price/Quality/Delivery-focused
• Focus on non-mandatory opportunities to increase
  sales

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UNICOR Today

• 100 factories offering products services
• Over 95 Federal Supply Classes
• Ventures emphasize repatriation of work
• Security cleared staff, solutions provider/
• turnkey project management

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UNICOR Today

• We get it right!
• ISO 9001 registration
• Test product lab/prototype development
• State-of-the-art mfg. (SAP)
• Same performance testing as private sector

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CT Business Overview

• Major customers Defense Support Center,
  Philadelphia (DSCP), General Services
  Administration (GSA), Bureau of Prisons (BOP),
  U.S. Postal Service, Veterans Administration
• Varied Products Battle dress uniforms, physical
  fitness uniforms, shirts, jackets, pajamas,
  sheets, towels, mattresses, inmate clothing,
  tarps, canteen covers, body armor, gloves, Postal
  inserts

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Clothing Textiles Major Customers
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Assignment of Textiles Products by Factory

• FACTORY ITEM MANUFACTURED
• Atlanta CS Battle Dress Uniform Pants
• Atlanta Mailbag Mailbag Repair
• Atlanta Mattress Mattresses/Box Springs
• Beaumont Battle Dress Uniform Pants
• Big Sandy ECWS Trousers
• Army Combat Uniforms
• Butner Military Dress Shirts
• Military Utility Shirts
• Swim Trunks
• IPFU T-Shirts
• Cumberland Promotional Products
• Sheets
• Neck Gaiters

FACTORY ITEM MANUFACTURED Edgefield Textile
Repairs Radio Carrying Case Military
Utility Shirts Tarps Body Armor Cover GP
Trunks Fort Dix CS IPFU Pants Medical
Gowns/Smocks Hospital Dress Uniform
Pants Mailbag Repair Greenville Battle
Dress Uniform Jackets Jesup CS T-Shirts,
Brown IPFU T-Shirts/PFU T-Shirts Jesup
Specialty Silk Screen Apparel Embroidered
Apparel Lee IPFU Jackets OTV Covers DAPs
Covers Manchester ECWS Trousers Army Combat
Uniform Coats
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Assignment of Textiles Products by Factory
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• FACTORY ITEM MANUFACTURED
• Seagoville Battle Dress Uniform Pants/Jackets
• Terre Haute CS USPS Postal Inserts, 1075, 1046
• Mailbag Repair
• GSA Tool Bags
• Disaster Blankets
• Mechanic Tool Bags
• Ammo Pouch
• Inmate Clothing
• Diplomatic Bags
• Navy Tool Bags
• Drop Cloths
• Terre Haute Mill Towels/Washcloths
• Terry Cloth
• Cotton Blankets
• Waseca IPFU Trunk
• PTU Trunk

• FACTORY ITEM MANUFACTURED
• Miami Navy Utility Jackets
• Coast Guard Jackets
• Inmate Jackets
• Helmet Bags
• Aircrew Cold Weather Coat Sheets/Pillowcases/N
  apkins
• Tablecloths
• Oakdale Inmate Clothing
• Pollock Inmate Clothing
• IPFU Liner/Trunks
• Mailbag Repair
• Raybrook Cotton Gloves
• Leather Combo Gloves
• Canteen Covers
• Correctional Belts
• Ammo Pouch

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Business Overview

• In one year, CT has awarded contracts valued at
  over 257 million for military related items.
• About 40 of those funds have been awarded to
  firms which are providing cut fabric.
• Over 70 of awards have been to small business

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Areas of Concentration

• Vendor Relations
• Technology
• Methods Engineering
• Product Engineering
• Best Practices
• Procedures Policies
• Work Flow Analysis
• Materials
• Continuity
• Economies of Scale

Reengineering Tools
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Key Concepts

• Production Control
• Inventory Control
• Waste Control

A new Point of View
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Textiles Production Planning Structure
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Industrial Specialist Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate between Central Office and assigned
  Factories to ensure work is loaded and scheduled
  appropriately
• Supervise the Contracting Officer to ensure all
  raw materials are ordered and delivered to
  support production plan
• Review with Factory Management all planned orders
  as well as raw material delivery due dates to
  support the production plan
• Monitor production with Factory Management as
  needed to modify raw material deliveries to
  support actual production

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Contracting Officer Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with the Industrial Specialist to ensure all
  raw materials are ordered as required
• Work to enhance vendor relations
• Follow up on vendor deliveries to ensure they are
  timely to support production
• Document performance of vendor for all contracts
  managed
• Monitor vendor contracts for expirations dates
  and mods.
• Research possible alternative vendors for items
  managed

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Business Opportunities

• CTG is seeking partnerships
• With firms producing items outside the U.S. for
  the Federal Government
• With firms with limited sewing capacity
• With fabric vendors interested in bidding for
  sewn finished items

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UNICOR Today

• Easy to do business with us
• phone, fax, E-mail, Web, EDI
• Accessible 24/7!
• Relentless improvement!
• Escape-Proof Guarantee!

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Good Stewards
Total Sales 667M Private Sector Purchases 494M
74 of Sales Small Business Purchases 262M
39 of Sales 53 of Total Purchases
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Dividends to Society

• 24 less likely to return to crime
• 14 more likely to be employed
• Minorities derive greatest benefit
• 2,000 civilian jobs 2,000 private sector jobs
  (est)
• 500 mil in taxpayers dollars saved annually

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Dividends to Society

• Inmate Transition Program reinforces FPI job
  training
• Job fairs held to better prepare inmates for
  employment
• Inmates value their experience

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Looking Ahead

• Visit a factory of your choice well arrange it!

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Looking Ahead

• Far-reaching benefits to inmates and their
  families taxpaying public businesses of all
  types the criminal justice system

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Looking Ahead

• Eager to share the new FPI story
• Your support is needed to carry on

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