Members of the Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support (NAVSUP WSS) executive leadership team recently met in Lancaster, Pa. for a strategic offsite to discuss the command’s way forward for 2020.

The team was tasked with building the 2020 initiatives supporting the command’s Blueprint for Supply Chain Excellence, a five-year plan which lays out a roadmap for improving NAVSUP WSS across the strategic priorities of people, processes and customers.

“The intent for the next few days is to reset ourselves,” said NAVSUP WSS Commander Rear Adm. Duke Heinz during his opening remarks.  “The Blueprint has resonated with our workforce.  Our job is to concentrate on what it means to our team and what we need to focus on during year three of execution.”

The group split into six teams representing the three strategic priorities and three strategic enablers of the Blueprint. Teams presented ideas in a “shark tank” type forum to decide which projects to focus on in 2020. The group chose to focus on 11 initiatives over the next year in the areas of customers, people, processes, finance, communication, and information technology.

The next steps are to finalize the initiatives, build working groups for each team, and then build detailed action plans to carry out the ideas generated during the offsite.

NAVSUP WSS Vice Commander Lynn Kohl challenged the group to take the messages from the offsite back to their employees. “We’re leaving here with a unified front and a clear understanding of what we want to accomplish this year.  We need to build a culture of change and innovation to make it happen,” said Kohl.  “We need the entire workforce involved and excited in order to move our organization forward.”

NAVSUP WSS is one of eleven commands under Commander, NAVSUP. Headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and employing a diverse, worldwide workforce of more than 22,500 military and civilian personnel, NAVSUP's mission is to provide supplies, services, and quality-of-life support to the Navy and joint warfighter. Learn more at www.navsup.navy.mil, www.facebook.com/navsup and https://twitter.com/navsupsyscom

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