DLA Provides 'Roadmap' for Its Transformational Programs

Defense Logistics Agency, FORT BELVOIR: The Defense Logistics Agency has provided a “roadmap” for its 13 transformational initiatives which the agency believes will revolutionize the way DLA conducts business. 
 
“The Transformation Roadmap captures, in a single, easily-readable document, all the great things that are going on around DLA to change the business model,” said Allan Banghart, director of Enterprise Transformation for DLA. 
 
The roadmap, available here, is provided publicly to allow DLA customers and others an overview of each program and the “milestones” established, all the way through full implementation. In his foreword to the roadmap, DLA Director Vice Adm. Keith Lippert comments, “No single program is transformational by itself … delivery of all of the programs is necessary to lay the foundation from which we can achieve the full realization of transformation.” 
 
The roadmap puts the programs into context as they relate to each other: the DLA Strategic Plan, the Department of Defense Transformation Strategy and the National Defense Strategy. Additionally, each of the programs has been linked to one or more of the four goals in the agency's strategic plan. 
 
Beyond its importance in supporting the agency's strategic plan, it also advances DLA's contribution to the larger DOD strategy, including “continuous transformation.” The DOD strategy states that as a department, “We will continually adapt how we approach and confront challenges, conduct business and work with others.” 
 
The roadmap addresses both Agency and department objectives to ensure DLA is transforming to meet the challenges of supporting current and future needs of the war fighter. 
 
“We are modernizing every part of the business model from the point where we touch the customer, all the way back through the supply chain,” Banghart said. 
 
Banghart commended the outstanding work of all DLA employees who continue to perform in their mission-critical positions and meet agency metrics and standards in the midst of the transformation and the dramatically increased operational tempo. 
 
The roadmap features the following programs and initiatives that will enable DLA to transform to meet tomorrow's challenges: Customer Relationship Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Business Systems Modernization, Business Systems Modernization Energy, Distribution Planning and Management System, Integrated Data Environment, National Inventory Management Strategy, Global Stock Positioning, Executive Agent, Product Data Management Initiative, Workforce Transformation, Reutilization Modernization Program and Base Realignment and Closure. 
 
DLA provides supply support, and technical and logistics services to the U.S. military services and several federal civilian agencies. Headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Va., the agency is the one source for nearly every consumable item, whether for combat readiness, emergency preparedness or day-to-day operations.