THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING TRACK


WHAT STAYS AND WHAT GOES?


Letterkenny Munitions Center in Pennsylvania completed the first phase of its supply chain optimization strategy earlier this year, upgrading inventory systems for its supply warehouse (shown before the upgrade) and increasing storage capacity by 60 percent. Other aspects of the strategy include increasing audit readiness, controlling inventory and reducing excess to decrease costs and increase readiness—in short, work tailor-made for an industrial property management specialist. (Photo by Natasia Kenosky, Letterkenny Munitions Center)


Here are some details of the work my assignment has allowed me to do:


• Write the government-furnished prop- erty sections of “Standard Operating Procedures for Property Accountabil- ity” for PEO IEW&S and the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, to estab- lish common practices within PEO IEW&S and the PEO community at large to account for government prop- erty provided to contractors.


• Conduct training for PEO IEW&S property accountability, contract- ing and other personnel to develop a common operating picture of how their joint efforts are required to estab- lish and maintain accountability for government-furnished property.


• Write standard government property accountability-related language for use within the organization’s performance work statements to ensure that contrac- tors perform to and accurately report


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government property accountability practices. (See Figure 1, Page 50)


Even more important, I regularly meet with and directly support PEO IEW&S logisticians and others to address challenges they face in preparing for congressionally mandated Army audits. Further,


I facilitate communication


between PEO IEW&S offices and their servicing contracting centers to ensure that all parties are working together to overcome the obstacles that impact all of their operations. Over three months, we’ve identified outdated equipment (who needs a dot-matrix printer in 2017?), underused equipment and other unful- filled contractor needs, and subsequently removed it from inventory, repurposed it to personnel who need the equipment and filed requests for changes.


CONCLUSION You may not always see or feel the results of this work, since there are so


few industrial property management specialists or government property administrators. Perhaps your office would benefit from having greater support from someone in my career field. Tose who work directly with industrial property management specialists or who have had contract-related issues corrected by them often see a distinct benefit: Teir opera- tions consistently run more smoothly and efficiently because of the support of personnel who truly understand the chal- lenges that can arise when working with contractors and government property on contracts. As congressionally mandated government property and other audits continue, that is all the more reason to advocate for the work that industrial property management specialists do to address issues that are not likely to go away on their own.


For more information on qualifying for cre- dentials in industrial and contract property management, go to the Defense Acquisi- tion University website http:// icatalog. dau.mil/onlinecatalog/CareerLvl . aspx?lvl=1&cfld=5, or the U.S. Office of Personnel Management website https:// www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/ classification-qualifications/general- schedule-qualification-standards/1100/ industrial-property-management- series-1103/.


MS. SABRINA JOHNS is an industrial property management specialist for ACC-APG. She holds an MBA with a concentration in information technology management from Southern New Hampshire University, and a B.A. in French and psychology from Lawrence University. She is Level II certified in industrial and contract property management and in life cycle logistics and Level I certified in program management. She is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps.


October-December 2017


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