Personnel Management

Workforce Readiness

With the importance of rapid deployment at the forefront of all commands, validating workforce readiness is critical. ASM provides the resource readiness management tools necessary for accurate placement preparation analysis. Users are able to prepare gap analysis on personnel requirements allowing supervisors to chart future needs against current personnel standings in order to facilitate strategic decisions about assignments.

ASM facilitates "workforce shaping" by collecting and maintaining comprehensive data to meet individual and unit requirements for ongoing operations while providing instant readiness status and improving visibility into personnel readiness by:

• Managing the qualifications, certifications, licenses and accreditations of individuals in a centralized location visible only to a designated hierarchy across the entire organization
• Managing the job templates for how to build qualified and proficient personnel
• Setting and tracking job requirements and managing inventory of qualified people available for specific assignments
• Creating and managing individual work plans throughout a persons career
• Having the ability to create measurable goals, validate requirements and prioritize training needs
• Developing performance plans that gauge progress

Workforce Training

Hundreds of thousands of workforce personnel around the world require up-to-date training. ASM enables supervisors to assess, at a glance, the overall readiness of human capital, view complete unit and individual training capabilities and provide competency information for day-to-day operations, emergency situations and incident investigations.

ASM distinguishes itself as the only system that tracks all of the detailed steps required for achieving and retaining the levels of skills and responsibilities required to support a military mission. The system is an automated software management tool designed to track technical training exposure across an individual's career, validate the knowledge and skill in job related procedures, track proficiency training and provide a feedback system to better manage the individual and workforce training process resulting in more effective planning and decision making for future organizational needs.

• ASM virtually eliminates the disadvantages inherent in paper-based or stand-alone systems:
• Records are maintained in electronic format with the ability to perform mass updates quickly
• Information can be retrieved from any location with internet access eliminating the wait time and costs needed to retrieve data from multiple sources
• Information can be searched in many different ways, including by qualification, seniority, work center or name
• Database back-up and security ensure qualification records will never be lost
• Notifications are provided prior to all qualification expirations, allowing time for planning appropriate refresher training or recertification processes

Workforce Advancement

Many parallels can be made between the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) systems and the ASM system. Both are logistical formats designed for the advancement of resources through a predetermined arrangement resulting in a complete product:

• MRP plans forecasting for production, ASM plans forecasting of people
• MRP manages inventory control, ASM manages inventory of qualified personnel
• MRP manages the manufacturing process, ASM manages the workforce building process