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NORFOLK, Va. - A program to bring the Defense Logistics Agency's technology backbone to DLA Maritime in Norfolk, Va., officially came online Jan. 31.
Inventory Management Stock Positioning brings the Enterprise Business System to DLA employees there.
“Together we have reached a major milestone with the much-anticipated IMSP go-live event,” DLA Land and Maritime Base Realignment and Closure Office Director Don Schulze said. “With the activation of IMSP, we will be able to better meet the needs of the U.S. Navy now and well into the future.”
IMSP will allow bring DLA’s inventory network to bear in filling customers’ requirements at the shipyard, Schulze said.
“This program will give us the ability to leverage the DLA inventory network worldwide to support our customers’ requirements and give us the capability to see industrial retail requisition demand patterns, which will greatly improve our ability to forecast customer requirements.”
The Norfolk detachment became DLA's first shipyard detachment when it joined DLA Land and Maritime in May 2009 as a result of BRAC 2005 decisions. It supports Norfolk Naval Shipyard, in Portsmouth, Va., which repairs, overhauls and modernizes ships and submarines.
IMSP’s goal is to support the military services’ depot maintenance activities with improved customer-level inventory management. Spiral 1 of IMSP brought Air Force sites that came to DLA under BRAC 2005 into EBS. Spiral 2 is doing the same for Navy sites. It has four objectives:
-- Improve demand-planning accuracy.
-- Provide expedient order processing to maintain uninterrupted support to depot maintenance customers.
-- Integrate consumer-level and wholesale inventory networks into a single model.
-- Protect local materiel from worldwide availability and consolidate retail and wholesale inventory management abilities.
Schulze said deploying IMSP to DLA Maritime in Norfolk was a Herculean effort.
“Many DLA and Navy personnel have dedicated tireless hours to ensure a seamless integration of our DLA systems with the Navy’s legacy systems in support of the Norfolk detachment’s supply, storage and distribution mission,” he said.
To make the transition to DLA systems as smooth as possible, DLA managed the site’s organizational alignment, systems access, EBS and Distribution Standard System training, system functionality, staffing for planning and augmentation efforts, change management, and system degradation issues, officials on the team managing the deployment said.
A control center was established to serve as an IMSP support location that provides support to end users. ICC personnel are responsible for documenting questions in the control center’s ticket database, addressing user questions, making preliminary assignments for system problems, and passing those assignments to the functional design team for resolution.
In addition, a team of business process analysts from DLA Land and Maritime’s Business Process Support and Procurement Process Support directorates is available to provide training and support for user issues during the transition. The analysts will verify system issues, assist in opening remedy tickets and testing fixes, provide training on policy and procedures, and assist in analyzing business and system metrics.
DLA Maritime in Norfolk Deputy Director Joe Long said team members continue to be optimistic about IMSP and expressed his appreciation for the effort that went into making it happen.
“We have had a great support group from the Navy, DLA Headquarters and Columbus [Ohio] along with [DLA Information Operations] experts, and most [were] on the ground for go live,” he said.
Schulze said coordination and teamwork between DLA, Naval Sea Systems Command and Norfolk Naval Shipyard were crucial to making the integration successful.
“This critical achievement would not be possible without major contributions from our DLA family,” he said. “This critical milestone would never have been possible without the tremendous efforts from Joe Long, Laura Anderson, Tony Smith, Carol Godwin and all the hardworking DLA Maritime-Norfolk associates without whom we would not be here today. DLA Land and Maritime looks forward to a great partnership with Norfolk Naval Shipyard thanks to their tireless efforts.”
(Note: Information taken from a DLA Land and Maritime BRAC Office article.)
| Date Taken: | 01.31.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 02.14.2012 14:08 |
| Story ID: | 83847 |
| Location: | NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, US |
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