Supply Management Workforce Development gets refocus Published Oct. 26, 2010 By Denise Rogers Deputy Director, 406th Supply Chain Management Squadron TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- One of the Air Force's priorities is to "Develop and Care for Airmen and their families." The Air Force Global Logistics Support Center is doing its part by offering its workforce a competency-based Supply Management Certificate Program, which provides AFGLSC employees a roadmap on how to progress from entry level to senior leadership positions. The program also helps individuals have a better understanding of their roles in the global logistics enterprise. The foundation of the SCMP is standardized training and competency demonstration in five certification levels. Templates are being developed and deployed across AFGLSC to provide employees, training managers, and supervisors with detailed development guidance and training requirements. The AFGLSC currently has training templates in place for employees in the major supply chain management series, as well as supervisors and those in general staff positions. Completion of training template requirements fulfills one key component necessary to achieve supply management certification. Applicants must also demonstrate master of technical, fundamental, leadership and management competencies. The AFGLSC conducted a pilot of the SCMP in July 2009 with a small group of supervisors in the 448th Supply Chain Management Wing. Seven of 19 applicants received certification. All supply management supervisors in the wing, or more than 190 people, were then trained on the program beginning in December 2009. Since then, 90 of them have been certified. For more information or questions, call the 448th SCMW Change Management Team at 622-7306.