CMXG

Ginger Keisling, center, the Commodities Maintenance Group Resources chief, discusses purchase requirements for engineering support of a CMXG back shop with management analysts Kay Kenyon, left, and Ashley Sprecker. The Resources office is comprised of three branches that, according to Ms. Keisling, is a behind the scenes vital resource to help the group’s production floor personnel in any way possible. “We’re all on the same team, with the same goal,” she added. (Air Force photo by Margo Wright)

76th CMXG office makes group successful

Published June 29, 2011
By Brandice J. O'Brien
Tinker Public Affairs

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- The 76th Commodities Maintenance Group Resource Office is not often talked about. In many ways, the office of 35 personnel is a mystery, flying under the radar. But, from behind the scenes and out of the limelight, the unit is vital to the success of the group.

Subdivided into three smaller branches, the Resource Office is composed of the Business Operations Branch, Financial Operations Branch and Business and Transformation Branch. Together, the office manages roughly $500 million of material, business operations and labor resources.

"The division is critically important to the smooth functioning of our group," said Col. Herbert Phillips, 76th CMXG commander. "When you consider all of the critical programs that are administered by this high-performing team, the division definitely keeps CMXG at the top. They are the best."

While the office personnel don't touch end items as mechanics do, the office ensures maintenance personnel have the materials and manpower to make the shop run effectively. Resource personnel track metrics, production progress and also manage Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century, Voluntary Protection Program, Black Belt and new business operations.

"Throughput and production is a network of people working together to make it happen, just like in the human body," Ginger Keisling, 76th CMXG Resource Office chief, said "There are some key parts like the heart and the brain, but every piece is necessary to make it function as a whole. We're like the blood, nervous system or skin."

Ms. Keisling said over the past year, the group has gained approximately 400 new employees and increased production by 300,000 hours, while maintaining the same fiscal year budget as the year before.

Additionally, the group is producing roughly 6,000 more piece parts in a year than it did in fiscal 2009.

"It's an indirect achievement in the fact that the commodities maintenance group had record throughput and production last year and that doesn't happen without resources and the proper application of resources," Ms. Keisling said. "Although, it's the shop-floor guys that are turning the wrenches and getting the product out the door, we're making sure they have the people they need and the dollars to purchase what they need."