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Show Page 6 THIS RACE HILL TOP TIMES 85 Agust 16, 1963 TIXED wr Holds a Winning Ticket Every Cy si In AF Logistics Command 'Horse Race' is AFLC is working on ways to speed up the reports which take now. the longest time for preparation. At stake is the efficient management of an inventory of Need Accurate Reports over $17 billion. Another problem is accuracy. The stable is comprised of the nine Air Materiel Areas Incorrect information cranked '(AMAs), the component parts of AFLC. into month-en- d reports can result Lined up at the $17 billion in faulty judgments of perform"window are AFLC's supply and THREE Responsiveness to ance standards. And accuracy uervice customers the oner customer requests to draw from suffers when knowledge of the United that inventory. of commands the ating realistic cause for States Air Force. The race has now been ex- performance is lacking. EfficienITere the similarity to an ac- panded to include operations in cy suffers when the causes of tual horse race ends. This race the areas of maintenance serv- shortcomings are defined in Is fixed every customer holds ices, procurement, weapon sys- terms too general to form a ' a winning ticket. tems support and civil engineer- basis for firm corrective action. The derby was born last fall ing services. All participants in the race are at one of the regular monthly To give the race a firm basis constantly alert to the dangers meetings of AFLC's "general of judgment, command stand- of these problems, for meaningmanager," General Mark E. ards are being established in all ful results in the form of imBradley, Jr., and his "district areas. Here begins the monthly proved customer services would managers," the individual AMA procedure of determining rela- be lacking if the problems were commanders. Each realized a tive standings of the field. not licked. need for improved AMA operaThis alertpess is only one indiStandards Established tions, and General Bradley deFirst, the command is judged cation of favorable response cided to inject a spirit of healthy the AMAs since the competition into the realization as a whole to see how close it is from competition started to meeting its own standards. of this need. more important Even fall. He dubbed the program the This establishes a general trend last Race" results "Horse are the line to show the relative im"AFLC Horse Raci." customer AFLC benefit the To set un the derby rules used provement over the previous lap, that and tax payer directly through to nidge the win, place, show the month before. in filling the needs speed greater measured AMA is each and aTso runs at the end of each Second, bases USAF around the world. of monthly lap, the Management against the overall achievement. are : these results Arl'-si- s Divis!on of the Comp- Causes are sought for any indi- Among troller's organization was called cation that an AMA is falling ONE Improved inventory in. below the standard, and correc- accuracy. On high value items, tive action is taken. which are physically counted Set Finish Line Problems do occur in the twice a year, this has always The finish line, or general AFLC derby, just as in any other been maintained above the 99th goal, in the race was fixed at race. percentile mark. But 100 per cent customer service improved One problem area is the time- accuracy is the goal, so efforts through efficient inventory man- liness of there to reach this mark have brought information agement. To determine if this are no cameras that the level from 99.3 per cent in photofinish goal is being rr. A standards of can record levels of June 1962 to 99.7 per cent in AMA's the service, reflected in inventory at the end of each June 1963. management performance, were performance But month's timely informa lap. set. Improvement Noted is tion Otherwise, pernecessary. The race was initiated in three More drastic improvement has formance data would be stale and aspects of inventory control : to resulted on low value items which resulting conclusion too late are inventorized bene ONE Status of inventory provide customers with the maintained. fits of immediately improved by sampling technique. Accuracy here has improved from 82 per Volume of inventory operations. TWO in 1963 to 94 per cent as of cent To eliminate this problem, input. Post time in the Air Force Logistics Command derby sub-standa- rd inter-comma- r i . Discuss New 'MAG' Award George Van Leeuwen (right), deputy director of Materiel Management, describes to directorate members a unique new award which DMM recently devised to stimulate inter est in the AFLC "Horse Race". Called the "NAG award which stands for "Not as Good", it is a ceramic miniature "broken-dow- n horse" and indifferent jockey, which would never be found in a winner's circle. Materiel Management divisions are scrambling all over the place to avoid the dubious honor of winning this award. nd semi-annual- ly A radical reducTHREE tion in the number of delinquent provisioning documents. (A provisioning document determines the types and quantities of spare parts, special tools, test equipment and other items needed to support a weapon systems or other major article.) At the end of the 1962 fiscal year, 3,560 such documents were delinquent. By June 30, 1963, this figure had been slashed to 895. Derby Spirit High And the derby spirit has been catching on. Ogden AMA, for example, has installed huge boards with race horse figures representing the AMAs and positioned on the track in relation to their monthly standings. Each month General Bradley surveys the field positions of the AMAs as they are totaled at AFLC headquarters in the form the use of this data, and meet with General and his staff in the bBradley Commanders' Confeimonthly rences. Through these "board of mmanders directors" meetings, the command managers can review AFLC progress toward established goals and discuss remedial action to correct short-coming- s. It is from this concentration of all levels of management on the "Horse Race" that winning ticket holders all AFLC & DAUGHTER SPECIAL PERMANENT WAVE is? $750 (KeK. Salon $15.00) SHAMPOO SET AND HAIR CUT $1 50 Razor Cut MONDAY , THRU THURSDAY Free Ha by Sitting Service Manuel's and Jesse's Beauty College Phone 825-572- 2 S502 South 1900 West College Roy, Utah TWO More rapid action on purpurchase requests. Over-ag- e chase requests had declined to 5 per cent at the end of June 1963. This is the lowest point reached in the last 18 months and reflects a decline from 13 per cent during the fiscal year. This means that procurement effectiveness is improving and AFLC customers are receiving needed items in minimum time. 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