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Maintenance/supply Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron 171 and Combat Logistics Company 36 attended the Global Command and Control Systems Marine Corps course at the yujo Hall here April 6 - 7.
“The instructor is very thorough and to the point. I feel like the (GCCS program) is going to be good,” said Lance Cpl. Nicholas J. Durbin, CLC-36 automotive organizational mechanic. “It’s a lot more organized than our standard system.”
The GCCS is an automated information sharing software designed to enhance data transfer capabilities for military and commercial needs.
“Currently we have these legacy systems that have been around the Marine Corps for about 20 plus years,” said Staff Sgt. Eric G. Murphy, MWSS-171 GCCS-MC instructor.
Maintenance and supply Marines currently use the SASSy (Supported Activities Supply System) and MIMMS (Marine Corps Integrated Maintenance Management System), printed systems used to order and document the maintenance process.
The new GCCS is designed to eliminate the maintenance paper trail and ultimately transform the common week(s)-long process of placing orders into almost real-time speed.
“There’s no more paperwork, it’s all done online,” said Durbin. “you can pull up old records, order all your new parts and track them right (in the system).”
With the MIMMS and SASSy, service members have limited visibility of the status, location and accessibility of nearby maintenance inventory. Service members also have limited visibility of the status of processed orders.
With the GCCS, all maintainers and commodities are digitally connected giving a global inventory to the suppliers/ maintainers and an updated of all request.
“You’ll be able to see all equipment, the readiness of the equipment, the rating of the equipment, the whereabouts of the equipment all the way down to consumable inventories,” said Robert Rotes, GCCS instructor.
Maintenance and supply Marines will also be able to digitally track and archive orders, which will eliminate the hassle of scuffling through piles of paperwork and save productive time.
“One of the biggest benefits is visibility on all levels starting from the LOGCOM (logistics command) all the way down to the end user,” said Rotes. “Potentially, anybody and everybody can see between that entire phase and be able to share information across the entire region globally. This is considered the logistics cornerstone for the Marine Corps.”
The GCCS is slated to be the primary data transfer system used throughout the military within the next few years. The Marine Corps is the first military branch to implement the GCCS.
III Marine Expeditionary Force was the first MEF to implement the system, said Rotes.
“III MEF is the tip of the spear for this program,” said Murphy. “All (III MEF) on Okinawa is completely done with their implementation. They’re already using the program, and we’re finishing up the training with Iwakuni, which should be done by the end of this month,” he added.
Some Okinawa shops currently using the GCCS system have improved productivity.
“Currently in Okinawa, there are units that are creating a requisition, getting it approved in the system, processed, picked, packed and shipped all in the same day,” said Rotes.
The GCCS staff uses mobile training suites (MTS) to train service members on the new system. Each MTS contains information to teach up to 30 GCCS classes by giving students an updated, simulated version of the actual GCCS for instructional purposes.
There are currently three mobile training suites dispersed throughout mainland Japan. “The MTS allow us to spread out and address any Marine Corps need based on whatever classes we need to do,” said Rotes. “So if we have 30 classes, we don’t need 30 MTS.”
The maintenance and supply fields are the first military occupational fields being trained on the GCCS, but the Marine Corps is planning to implement the system on a larger scale by the end of 2011.
“Right now the implementation is supply and maintenance, but eventually it will be throughout the whole Marine Corps,” said Murphy. “The next implementation will be I MEF and II MEF in June.”
The system is also rapidly being integrated commercially, so Marines trained on the system can also have an upper hand once they part from the Marine Corps.
“If a Marine wants to leave the Marine Corps, they will be able to operate a common software system that the commercial world highly uses, and that gives them an additional leg into bridging the gap from the Marine Corps to the commercial sector,” said Rotes.
GCCS courses are scheduled here until June. All maintenance and supply Marines are required to be trained on the new system.
| Date Taken: | 04.06.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 04.13.2011 20:42 |
| Story ID: | 68712 |
| Location: | IWAKUNI, AICHI, JP |
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