SAME STANDARDS, DIFFERENT METHODS
subject-matter experts to oversee the fielding and NET. Tey would be aug- mented by a detail of 26 Soldiers, 16 from the unit to man the stations and 10 from the field support battalion to help with setting up and moving the thousands of boxes of uniforms and equipment. In addition, three personnel from the post central issue facility (CIF) would support the event by running forklifts to empty the tractor-trailers.
To ensure that adoption of the new pro- cess would go smoothly and gain Soldier acceptance, Turner secured the IPT’s agreement to retain the performance standards of the present fielding system. Tese include the time required to set up the fielding before the start, the amount of time required to conduct the fielding itself, the number of Soldiers who can
STREAMLINING DELIVERY
A worker at PEO Soldier’s former warehouse at Middle River, MD, moves a wooden shipping container used for fielding OCIE in the Operation Enduring Freedom Camouflage Pattern to theater. Closing the Maryland-based facility early and shifting those operations to Lansing, MI, has helped PM SPIE save $5.7 million. (Photo by Michael Clayton, PM SPIE)
be fielded within a 10-hour period, and the time it takes to close out a fielding event and return remaining inventory to the warehouse. He then led the planning and execution of three pilot fielding events at Fort Campbell, KY, using the new process. In the pilot events, PM SPIE fielded and trained three brigade combat teams (BCTs) from March through May 2012.
Tese pilot fieldings, using the TACOM/ Soldier fielding teams, demonstrated that the new process could deliver the required OCIE and PPE to Soldiers and meet the same performance standards, described above, as PM SPIE’s contrac- tor teams. Te Army deputy chief of staff, G-4 approved the new process in July 2012 for all BCT-size pre-deployment RFI fieldings in the continental United
States
(CONUS), U.S. Army Europe
and U.S. Army Pacific Command. Te projected cost avoidance for the new RFI procedures amounts to $37.6 mil- lion through FY14.
SAVING ON SPACE Te IPT also looked at the costs of warehousing and staging shipments of equipment for fielding events.
To meet the demand for staging opera- tions to support Operation Iraqi Freedom and later Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), PM SPIE leased two commer- cial warehouses in the Washington, DC, area. As demand decreased, Turner deter- mined that the PM could both reduce costs
and increase efficiency by con-
solidating PM SPIE products into one government-managed facility. Te
sav-
ings would come from lower real estate costs and reduced personnel needed to operate the staging facility.
Te IPT considered four possible gov- ernment locations for the facility. Using Lean Six Sigma tools and a cost-benefit analysis, the IPT determined that a facility in Lansing, MI, was the best- value solution. Te TACOM Clothing and Heraldry Central Management Office—Program
Executive Office
(PEO) Soldier’s sustainment partner— had previously planned to lease the location. Tis new facility will
store
and repair OCIE in the OEF Camou- flage Pattern. (OCIE in the Universal Camouflage Pattern will be cleaned and maintained at a different location.) Tis move will result in $25.2 million in cost avoidance through FY14.
While waiting for the availability of the new CONUS regional
facility, Turner
consolidated PM SPIE equipment into one of its original two commercial facili- ties. To expedite the savings to the Army,
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