PEO EIS gains Logistics Modernization Program

Army Logistician, July-August, 2006

As part of continuing Army efforts to streamline supply chain business processes and practices, the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) assumed operational control of the Logistics Modernization Program (LMP) in March from the Army Materiel Command.

LMP is a key component of the Single Army Logistics Enterprise (SALE), which is the Army's larger vision for integrating its major logistics systems and processes. Since PEO EIS already managed several other enterprise resource planning (ERP) programs [Global Combat Support System-Army (Field/Tactical), Product Lifecycle Management Plus, and General Fund Enterprise Business System], consolidation of LMP with those programs under PEO EIS will facilitate integration of the programs and contribute to successful creation of the SALE.

One of the Army's largest and most comprehensive business transformation and technological modernization efforts, LMP provides the systems and processes to support all aspects of the Army's national- and installation-level logistics. When fully deployed, LMP will integrate procurement, asset management, depot maintenance planning and execution, financial management, ammunition manufacture and maintenance, requisition processing, and long-term supply planning for an inventory of up to 6 million items and $40 billion in goods and services annually. Ultimately, LMP will help manage a supply chain serving 50,000 vendors and up to a million customers.

LMP is already serving the Warfighter. Since 2003, LMP users at 12 locations have been able to release, track, and deliver supplies to troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other locations around the world. Most importantly, LMP does this faster and more efficiently than the Army's legacy systems.

The 12 locations now using LMP are the Army Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command (C-E LCMC) at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; the C-E LCMC Communications Security Logistics Activity at Fort Huachuca, Arizona; the garrison at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania; the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; the Army Security Assistance Command headquarters at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and activities at New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, and St. Louis, Missouri; Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)-Indianapolis, Indiana, and DFAS operating locations at Rock Island, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri; and the Clothing and Heraldry Product Support Integration Directorate of the Soldier-Biological-Chemical Operations Directorate, Tank-automotive and Armaments Command, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Future LMP deployments are planned at the Army Materiel Command's remaining commands and depots during the next 5 years.

More information about LMP is available by calling the LMP Project Office at (856) 988-4727.