AMC senior leaders review retrograde, non standard-equipment operations at Sierra

By Ms Lori K Mcdonald (AMC)April 2, 2012

AMC senior leaders review End of First Life Center
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On Mar. 13, 2012, Sierra hosted a visit from Mr. Guy Sands-Pingot, AMC Deputy G3 (SES/PC5), Ms. Lisha Adams, AMC Deputy G4 (SES/PC6), Mr. William LaGrone, AMC Asset Management, Mr. Edward Agee, AMC LMI, Mr. Timothy Pollard, AMC NS-E, and Mr. Bert James, AMC NS-E.

The visit focused on the unique capabilities Sierra has developed over the years supporting the Retrograde and Redistribution (R&R) of standard and Non Standard-Equipment (NS-E) from the Iraq and Afghanistan Theater of Operations. The overall visit was great and Sierra's guests took away the added importance that Sierra, due to our proximity and capabilities, plays as the Army refocuses its strategy towards the Asia-Pacific region.

Sands-Pingot said, "SIAD has great unused and underutilized capabilities and potential as the CONUS based Global Logistic Network hub for Asia-Pacific region and is supported by a dedicated team of innovative professionals that are doing great things for our Army."

After receiving the command overview, Mr. Donald Olson, deputy to the commander, took the distinguished visitors on a tour of operations throughout the installation. The first stop on the tour was the ground combat vehicle staging and distribution center where they were impressed with the lines of diversified combat track vehicles along with the pilot program for the new Passive RFID program, Asset Pulse.

Olson explained the Asset Pulse program will eventually provide on-line asset visibility to Army leadership, enabling them to make informed management decisions for the excess items at Sierra. Our workforce will also utilize this system to dramatically reduce the time it takes to perform critical inventory management functions of the assets we have in custody. Incorporating this state-of-the-art system is one more critical component to establishing Sierra as the Army's End of First Life Center (EoFLC).

After leaving the EoFLC, Olson traveled over to the R&R operations with the visitors where discussions continued about the need to aggressively market SIAD capabilities to support the Army's refocused strategy toward the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Jon France, R&R director, described how Sierra developed their processes to unpack containers, identify and classify the material, bring items to an accountable record, perform inventory managmement functions, maintain visibility for the owner, and ultimately ship assets to an end user.

Olson added, "Sierra has more experience than any other organization in the Army or DLA with building and expanding the nation's only capability to receive excess "dirty" stock and manage that stock in order to realize some positive value for the Army." France talked about the Depot's capacity to flex operations to meet emerging demands.

The group was informed Sierra currently operates the Army's largest SARRS SSA operation focused solely on the receipt, processing and redistribution of previously issued stock back into the supply system.

Mr. William Junk, NS-E supervisor, welcomed the group to the area where the depot receives equipment deemed as NS-E, and how depot employees conduct a 100 percent inventory which essentially begins the accountability record so the items can be loaded into the Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced (PBUSE) system. Junk went on to say PBUSE would allow for easy access of all assets in a web based accountability record as well as allowing a global visibility of this equipment across the entire Department of the Army.

Sands-Pingot and Adams thanked the Sierra leadership for this visit, as they were able to put into perspective a better understanding the value SIAD brings to the table.

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Sierra provides rapid expeditionary logistics support and long-term sustainment solutions to the Army and the Joint Force. They serve as our Strategic Power Projection Platform providing logistics support for asset receipt, classification, management, storage, distribution, maintenance, assembly & containerization, and the rapid worldwide shipment of material in support of the war fighter. Sierra has received Secretary of the Army designation as the Center of Technical Excellence (CITE) for all Petroleum and Water Distribution Systems (PAWS).