To get the best out of a new program, sometimes you have to take your best people, and place them in certain key positions to achieve the best results. Sometimes this means a loss of expertise in a particular area, but the end results are totally worth the immediate sacrifice. This is what happened when the Pine Bluff Arsenal began to create its cadre team for the Logistics Modernization Program project.
The cadre team, which is made up of specialized members from key areas of the Arsenal, has been engaged in a series of day-long educational sessions since March. "These trainings are for baseline knowledge of LMP for future trainings," said Jafar.
The training sessions are currently being held in a modified training area set up in the old Operations Center area in the Arsenal's headquarters building.
Cadre and data cleansing team members are:
Aca,!Ac Debbie Carroll, Directorate of Chemical and Biological Defense Operations. She is also a member of the data cleansing team.
Aca,!Ac Nakeeta Graves, Directorate of Resource Management. She will also act as a data cleansing team backup.
Aca,!Ac Jeffrey Allred, Arsenal Contracting.
Aca,!Ac Jay Tremblay, Directorate of Material Management-Quality Division.
Aca,!Ac Sharon Lavergne, Directorate of Material Management-Transportation Division.
Aca,!Ac Scott Byers, Directorate of Material Management - Inventory Division. He will also act as data cleansing team backup.
Aca,!Ac Kelvin McClellan, Directorate of Information Management. He is also the lead for the data cleansing team.
Aca,!Ac Luvonia Shepherd, Directorate of Ammunition Operations. She will also support the data cleansing team.
Aca,!Ac Wayne Smith Directorate of Ammunition Operations.
Aca,!Ac Brenda Hall, Directorate of Material Management-Inventory Division.
Aca,!Ac Angie Campbell, Directorate of Resource Management.
Aca,!Ac Elaine Nelson and Pam Burton - Arsenal Contracting. Nelson and Burton will be interchangeable within the data cleansing team.
"LMP is basically a software program that will help us manage our inventories, workloads, manpower, budget and finance, etc., in all aspects of our business at one glance," said Julie Jafar, team administrative leader for the Arsenal's LMP cadre team. "It will replace many of our Oracle and legacy system programs."
LMP will help move the Arsenal into the 21st century, and reduce redundancy and move logistics support into the future, according to Jafar. "When we get materials in now, we see it as revenues," she said. "When the LMP system starts to track it, these materials will not be seen as revenue until it is used in a product - such as a munition or mask. It is going to change how we do our business."
The program, said Jafar, who is part of the Arsenal's Directorate of Business Operations and Planning, will also allow the Arsenal to see what everyone else has Army-wide in their inventories. "This will allow for a sharing across installations of leftover material," she said.
The U.S. Army Material Command's Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM), located at Fort Monmouth, N.J, and Tobyhanna Army Depot, located in Pennsylvania, were the first command and installation to deploy LMP in 2003. Corpus Christi Army Depot went live with LMP May 14. PBA is set to go live in October 2010.
AMC's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command and Joint Munitions Command are slated to complete the transitions to LMP in 2011, according to information from AMC.
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