Ukraine's Defence Ministry and the Defence Procurement Agency are reforming the food supply system for the Armed Forces to make it more transparent and better.

This is stated in a report on the website of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence, together with the Defence Procurement Agency (DOT), has presented an updated concept for reforming the food supply system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and is now moving to put it into practice.

The main goal of the reform is to improve the quality of food provided to service members by modernising the entire system of procurement, logistics and quality control.

The new model is intended to eliminate the main shortcomings of the current mechanism, including insufficient competition between suppliers, a lack of transparency in pricing, and quality checks being carried out only after products have arrived at military units.

The teams of the Ministry of Defence and the Defence Procurement Agency (DOT) are already working on implementing the new concept.

One of the first stages of the reform will be the separation of food procurement from logistics services.

Food will be supplied by vetted producers, while its delivery will be handled by professional logistics operators.

This approach is expected to increase competition in the market and make the pricing mechanism more open and transparent.

The quality control system will change as well. Products are now to be inspected before being dispatched to military units — at distribution centres.

This will prevent substandard products from reaching service members.

Subsequent stages of the reform provide for the digitalisation of the food ordering process. In particular, military units will place orders in the DOT-Chain Food system not for individual products, but for complete meals. The system will automatically calculate the required quantity of ingredients according to the recipe and the number of personnel.

In addition, a digital recipe collection is to be created to make cooks’ work easier.

The first procurements under the updated model are due to begin this year. The reform will initially be introduced in military units in several regions and then gradually extended across the entire system.

The changes are expected to result in a modern, transparent and effective food supply model in which the quality of products does not depend on the region, the supplier or the manual handling of processes.

As ArmyInform reported earlier, the Defence Procurement Agency (DOT) of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence is launching a survey in the Army+ app to gather troops’ practical experience and expectations regarding improvements to combat rations.