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| For nearly thirty years, the Field Supply and Maintenance Analysis Office (FSMAO) program has performed its mission as a direct field representative of the Commandant of the Marine Corps in an outstanding manner focusing at policy compliance and area analysis. Renamed Marine Corps Logistics Chain Analysis Team (MCLCAT) effective 1 April 2003, the program began to take steps towards logistics modernization. The evolving nature of expeditionary warfare and sea-based logistics requires an entirely new approach to logistics chain management, In accordance with the Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics (DC I&L) vision for logistics modernization, the MCLCAT program will transform the focus of more than 60 subject matter experts to be prepared to understand. and become disciples for logistics change management. In order to expedite the transformation to change agents, DC I&L directed that operational control of the MCLCAT program be realigned from the Head, Logistics Capabilities Center; Logistics Plans, policies and Strategic Mobility Division (LPC) to the Director for Logistics Plans Vision and Modernization (LPV-4). To effectively enable this realignment to support logistics modernization, education and training will be provided to member of the MCLCAT program that will sustain the transformation of logistics through processes improvements, information technology enhancements, and improved personnel training. In order to best support Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) logistics requirements, the future MCLCAT teams will be aligned with strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war. Each MCLCAT team will organize staff members to focus on segments of the logistics chain that support each level of war. Through this change in organization, we will eliminate the historical stove piped focus of maintenance versus supply; retail versus wholesale supply, and organizational versus intermediate versus depot levels of maintenance. Each team will contain cross-functional membership, and may be expanded as the logistics chain continues to develop beyond supply and maintenance. The roles of the MCLCAT teams will remain flexible to support varying change management requirements. | ||
