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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. – When it comes to meeting the needs of the warfighter, Fleet Readiness Center East has made great strides in focusing efforts on critical needs and reducing the wait for high-priority items. By incorporating process changes and data visualization tools, the facility has reduced accountable backorders by 76 percent and high-priority backorders by 77 percent since the start of fiscal year 2019.
“We’re improving our delivery of high-priority items to the fleet, which is increasing readiness on the user end,” said FRCE Commanding Officer Capt. Mark E. Nieto. “By revamping our existing processes and introducing some new ones, we’ve been able to reduce the number of high-priority backorders by more than three-quarters since the start fiscal year 2019, and that’s a huge improvement. I couldn’t be more proud of the work being done in support of naval aviation by our people and our partners.”