AFSC, ALCs pull together to save time, standardize processes Published Jan. 10, 2014 By Jenny Gordon Robins Public Affairs ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- For nearly a year, a team of experts from the Air Force Sustainment Center, Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, Ogden Air Logistics Complex and Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex negotiated a public-private partnership agreement with Boeing. The benefit is that agreements like these standardize the process across the three complexes and are expected to cut the time factor in half. Historically, the time to negotiate a partnership agreement has taken approximately 18 months. That will allow WR-ALC and other complexes to execute the specific implementation agreements and bring in workload in a much shorter time. "This is monumental for what the corporate contract provides the supply chain manager. This partnership agreement provides the same flexibility to the depot," said David Denning, Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex Business Development/Partner-ship Branch chief. "Given our fiscal challenges, enterprise agreements provide a more efficient and strategic way of doing business." After many intense teleconferences, involving government and Boeing representatives, an agreed document was presented to each complex for coordination. It was signed Oct. 9 by Lt. Gen. Bruce Litchfield, AFSC commander. The result was the first center-wide partnership agreement implemented by the partnering team. Prior to the creation of Air Force Materiel Command's five-center construct, each AFMC Air Logistics Complex would enter into individual partnership agreements based on its own requirements. Now, with this enterprise partnership agreement in place, each complex can execute implementation agreements for the specific work to be performed within their respective complex. Each complex will continue to have local partnership agreements due to some of the workload being specific to a particular complex. There will be one partnering team, AFSC and a representative from each of the complex's Partnership Business Office.