Logistics Management eXchange (LMX)
The tools and information provided by the Logistics Management eXchange (LMX) allow the maintenance manager to spend less time identifying problems…allowing more time to fix them. LMX pulls Property data and Pipeline from LMR (Logistics Modernized Reporting) as well as ESR maintenance data, Material Situation data, and ZOAREP from GCSS-A into a customized, multi-user environment.
The goal is to give the maintenance manager all the required tools and information necessary to accomplish their mission. Instead of the old-fashioned method of reviewing the ESR to research parts issues, LMX allows maintenance managers to produce customized reports tailored for any circumstance.
With its unique and resourceful features, the system is capable to do the following:
- Checks for invalid document numbers on the ESR
- One-click lookup of World-wide CLIX assets available for a given NIIN
- Provides a detailed natural language parts auto-analysis for all requisitions
- Quickly converts maintenance and supply status codes to their proper definition
- Provides combat slant and fleet projection to include Operational Readiness Rates, and Equipment Readiness Rates for each fleet at the Brigade, MSC, or Theater level
- Analysis of the ESR and provides an Excel file that contains a series of tabs, each denotes a group of items on the ESR that contain actionable items. This allows managers to focus their efforts.
- Provides a daily list of parts available for Walk-up with the installation or Theater. This list can contain either the ATF for all SSAs on the installation, the SSL for all units on post, or both.
- Has a built-in Julian/Ordinal Date calculator
- Provides various reports for Standard Pricing
- Creates your brigade maintenance meeting slide automatically which contains Standard Pricing (Management and Details reports), Combat Slant, and an auto-analyzed ESR.
- Allows the manager to annotate and keep historical parts research data/information. The parts research that users input into the system is immediately available to all users. This will minimize repetitive research being conducted at various levels within the Theater/AoR.
- Customized reports that can be filtered by age, unit, fleet, pacers/ERC
- Allows the user quick and easy access to the wholesale supply system through tools such as: Army Enterprise Portal (AEP), LMR, Fed E-Mall, etc.
- Integrate managers at all levels including the TSC/ESC, Sustainment Brigade, BLAST/LSE
- Daily archiving of the entire ESR allows managers to look back to any point in time to identify the cause of readiness issues
Furthermore, it lets the user monitor/manage a set of custom-selected fleets for any unit within the AOR, giving them the details needed to identify and fix problems. Additionally, it has an Exchange Pricing Management tool which enable managers to monitor, in near real-time, any outstanding parts that need to be turned in.
Benefits for using LMX:
- All parts research is preserved for future analysis
- Many common reports are created automatically preventing managers from spending valuable time created reports. This allows them more time to solve actual problems.
- Provides maximum communication as well as consolidation of efforts between all management echelons.
- Pools multiple data sources which keeps managers from having to traverse several websites just to get the entire picture
- Allows users at the brigade and battalion SPO level to input the most current job status which they can in turn use to provide reports to their higher-level commanders. This information is also immediately available to all users.
- Gives tools to managers that expedites the analysis and creation of their briefing products
- Saves huge amounts of time by showing, analyzing and organizing the data points that are relevant
- Provides an efficient workflow allowing users to quickly get to the information that is relevant to them so they can affect change
- Maximizes the power of sharing by bringing outside support agencies into the management process (AMC, DLA, AFSB/BLST, etc)