USTRANSCOM team wins inaugural logistics award
Michael Hansen and U.S. Transportation Command's Logistics Sustainment Division have won the first Center of Excellence in Logistics and Technology General William G.T. Tuttle, Jr., U.S. Army (Ret.) Award for Business Acumen in Defense and Government.
At an awards dinner Feb. 3 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tuttle provided the keynote address and presented the inaugural award.
LOGTECH, as the center is known, brings together leaders from the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, other government agencies and the private sector.
Those attending the award dinner included participants, students and faculty of LOGTECH's executive programs.
UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School and the Institute for Defense and Business are partners for developing and delivering LOGTECH. Among guest at the dinner were members of the IDB Board of Directors and the North Carolina governor's administration.
The evening also included the graduation of participants from the LOGTECH Executive Program. Graduates consisted of flag and field grade officers, as well as senior civilians and high-level corporate executives.
Nominations for this award were sought from the more than 250 participants who had attended six previous LOGTECH advanced programs in logistics and technology. The nominations documented real-world results from applying lessons from the program to improve the efficiencies and operations of their organizations.
"I am extremely proud of Michael Hansen and his Logistics Sustainment Division for their work in optimizing transportation options available to support our warfighters," said Air Force Maj. Gen. Michelle Johnson, USTRANSCOM's director of Strategy, Policy, Programs and Logistics.
"It is indeed an honor for all of USTRANSCOM for them to receive this recognition as the winner of the inaugural LOGTECH General Tuttle award."
Hansen and his team optimized distribution at USTRANSCOM's Logistic Sustainment Division, which develops, assesses and implements deployment and distribution capability solutions for combatant commanders, the military services, federal agencies and others to improve forecast accuracy.
The fundamental principle the team utilized was to take an enterprise-wide look at how best to pack shipping containers in order to overcome inefficiencies and excessive costs. Hansen's division found that containers packed only with deliveries for a single customer were often not speeding delivery as intended.
The team's analysis showed that the benefits reducing handling and potential speed gains at forwarding distribution points by pure pack shipments were outweighed by the extended pipeline created by the resulting light loads.
The solution was to find the optimal balance between pure pack and mixed pack pallets or containers based on the receiving distribution center's capacity to repackage or route cargo from full pallets or containers.
The Logistic Sustainment Division's use of business principles and analytics produced straight forward tools and procedures--netting savings of $123 million in 2010, improving velocity by 20 percent in sea containers and increasing aircraft utilization on all airlift missions by 11.7 percent.
LOGTECH officials call this award a "fitting tribute to General Tuttle for his many years of staunch support for LOGTECH, and is emblematic of his life-long contributions to logistics in the Department of Defense and the private sector."
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At an awards dinner Feb. 3 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tuttle provided the keynote address and presented the inaugural award.
LOGTECH, as the center is known, brings together leaders from the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, other government agencies and the private sector.
Those attending the award dinner included participants, students and faculty of LOGTECH's executive programs.
UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School and the Institute for Defense and Business are partners for developing and delivering LOGTECH. Among guest at the dinner were members of the IDB Board of Directors and the North Carolina governor's administration.
The evening also included the graduation of participants from the LOGTECH Executive Program. Graduates consisted of flag and field grade officers, as well as senior civilians and high-level corporate executives.
Nominations for this award were sought from the more than 250 participants who had attended six previous LOGTECH advanced programs in logistics and technology. The nominations documented real-world results from applying lessons from the program to improve the efficiencies and operations of their organizations.
"I am extremely proud of Michael Hansen and his Logistics Sustainment Division for their work in optimizing transportation options available to support our warfighters," said Air Force Maj. Gen. Michelle Johnson, USTRANSCOM's director of Strategy, Policy, Programs and Logistics.
"It is indeed an honor for all of USTRANSCOM for them to receive this recognition as the winner of the inaugural LOGTECH General Tuttle award."
Hansen and his team optimized distribution at USTRANSCOM's Logistic Sustainment Division, which develops, assesses and implements deployment and distribution capability solutions for combatant commanders, the military services, federal agencies and others to improve forecast accuracy.
The fundamental principle the team utilized was to take an enterprise-wide look at how best to pack shipping containers in order to overcome inefficiencies and excessive costs. Hansen's division found that containers packed only with deliveries for a single customer were often not speeding delivery as intended.
The team's analysis showed that the benefits reducing handling and potential speed gains at forwarding distribution points by pure pack shipments were outweighed by the extended pipeline created by the resulting light loads.
The solution was to find the optimal balance between pure pack and mixed pack pallets or containers based on the receiving distribution center's capacity to repackage or route cargo from full pallets or containers.
The Logistic Sustainment Division's use of business principles and analytics produced straight forward tools and procedures--netting savings of $123 million in 2010, improving velocity by 20 percent in sea containers and increasing aircraft utilization on all airlift missions by 11.7 percent.
LOGTECH officials call this award a "fitting tribute to General Tuttle for his many years of staunch support for LOGTECH, and is emblematic of his life-long contributions to logistics in the Department of Defense and the private sector."
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