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# Distribution headquarters’ Lukens named Employee of the Quarter

By DLA Distribution Public AffairsDLA Distribution Public Affairs

                NEW CUMBERLAND, Pennsylvania  –              
Timothy Scott Lukens, senior general supply specialist at DLA Distribution headquarters in New Cumberland, Pa., has been named Employee of the Quarter for the third quarter of fiscal year 2015.   

In the first and second quarters of calendar year 2015, DLA Distribution provided a team of subject matter experts to provide staff assistance and knowledge  for Distribution Standard System’s implementation at the Navy Warehouse Transfer sites at Port Hueneme, Calif., and at Gulfport, Miss.  

“At both sites, materiel was not on any systemic accountable record.  When DSS was implemented, Mr. Lukens independently provided assistance to the information operations team and the sites to identify potential inventory issues, to resolve pre-existing inventory issues, and to identify the way forward for the sites to achieve an accountable and healthy inventory program,” said Material Accountability supervisor Denise Kurtz.

Lukens served as a conduit among the DLA Distribution’s SMEs for receiving, warehousing, transportation, Packing, Packaging, Preservation, and Marking, stock readiness, and shelf life to ensure that innovative broad-based issues involving inventory were addressed uniformly.  

Additionally, Lukens provided advice and assistance to the DLA Distrbution Future Operations team lead, information operations personnel, Current Operations personnel, and Future Plans personnel in achieving a stable systemic operational posture at these two sites, which had moved from using pencil and paper spreadsheet tracking of inventory to DSS as the accountable record.  

Lukens identified more than 40 National Item Identification Numbers with system data conversion discrepencies at Gulfport and more than 100 at Port Hueneme, resulting in $2.4M that was added to the record.  

Since there are no interfaces between DSS and the Navy’s warehousing system, Lukens created Query Management Facility queries to pull all inventory-related transactions that would normally be systemically sent from DSS to update the supply center’s records.  This avoids a manual process, saving ten resource hours daily and avoids inventory mismatch quantities. 

Overall, Lukens’ efforts resulted in an approximately $3 million cost avoidance.   

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