MTMC PROPOSES SWEEPING CHANGES TO STREAMLINE OPERATIONS

MTMC PROPOSES SWEEPING CHANGES TO STREAMLINE OPERATIONS    The U.S. Military Traffic Management Command has issued a proposal that will streamline and consolidate its operations.
   The proposal includes consolidating finance, personnel and logistics work at MTMC headquarters in Alexandria, Va.; and reducing personnel and streamlining military transportation units.
   The MTMC has been reviewing work processes at every level since last fall, with the assistance of Logistics Management Institute, of McLean Va.
   “The focus of the proposal is to take advantage of automation and communications technology to reduce bureaucratic layering and speed our process flow,” said Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Privratsky, MTMC commander.
   No decision on the proposal is expected before mid-June. Privratsky said he will receive input from MTMC employees and union partners on the proposal.
   Overall, the consolidation will eliminate 60 authorized positions, mostly in the field transportation battalions, including 44 positions in finance and 14 in personnel and supply.
   Centralization will include manpower documentation, budgeting and invoice processing, said Johnnie Fisher, chief of resource management for MTMC. Other savings will result from consolidating liner documentation for movements by commercial carriers at MTMC's Deployment Support Command at Fort Eustis, Va.
   The MTMC has also proposed reorganizing its 25 military transportation units in the United States and worldwide to be more uniform in size and composition.
   The proposal, which could be implemented in the next three to four months, would reorganize the groups to near-similar structures and job titles, in standard 26-member organizations. The groups currently range from 19 to 84 positions, so most would decrease in size while a few would actually increase.
   Overall MTMC said strength at worldwide port locations would decline by four officers, 37 soldiers, 94 civilians and 64 foreign nationals.