Tobyhanna employees graduate from CPIM program

by Anthony Ricchiazzi
Public Affairs Office

TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. — Ten employees recently graduated from the first Association of Operations Management (APICS) Certification in Inventory and Production Management (CPIM) training course. 

(U.S. Army photo by Steve Grzezdzinski)

The CPIM program is internationally recognized as the standard for individual assessment in the field of production and inventory management, said Jim Antonelli (a resident of Hazleton), chief, Operations Management and Analysis Division, Resource Management Directorate.

  Depot commander Col. Ron Alberto presented the employees with certificates and pins.  The employees, members of the Master Production Scheduling (MPS) team, participated in the program as part of a continuing process to educate employees on the of the Web-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The ERP is a framework for organizing, defining and standardizing business processes.

James Ciliberti, CPIM - Lehigh Valley Chapter; and Edwin Daveski, CPIM - NEPA Chapter President, attended the ceremony.  Daveski cited the important role the certified employees will have in spreading APICS knowledge throughout the depot.

In his remarks, Patrick Esposito (a resident of Archbald), director of Production Management, thanked the CPIM representatives for their support, noting that Ciliberti was one of the course instructors.

“I’d also like to extend my congratulations to our depot graduates,” Esposito said.  “They are our pioneers in this important program, which is critical to moving us along our LMP/MPS path to the future.  Congratulations and thank you for your dedication and hard work in completing this challenging course of study.”

 “This certification of 10 depot employees marks another milestone in our implementation (of the Logistics Modernization Program),” Alberto said.  “Individually, you are now among our ERP experts, and you have substantially increased the value you bring to our LMP/MPS program.  Organizationally, we now look to you to move us more rapidly ahead with the LMP/MPS initiative.”

 Tobyhanna Army Depot is the Defense Department’s largest center for the repair, overhaul and fabrication of a wide variety of electronics systems and components, from tactical field radios to the ground terminals for the defense satellite communications network.  Tobyhanna’s missions support all branches of the Armed Forces.

About 5,300 personnel are employed at Tobyhanna, which is located in the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania.

Tobyhanna Army Depot is part of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command.  Headquartered at Fort Monmouth, N.J., the command’s mission is to research, develop, acquire, field and sustain communications, command, control, computer, intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors capabilities for the Armed Forces.

Ten Tobyhanna Army Depot employees are the depot’s first Association of Operations Management Certification in Inventory and Production Management training course graduates.  The program is internationally recognized as the standard for individual assessment in the field of production and inventory management.  From left, back row: Ted Bienkowski (a resident of Summit Hill), Rick Sames (a resident of Moscow), Phil Rozaieski (a resident of Throop), Frank DeAngelo (a resident of Exeter) and Bob Edmunds (a resident of Eynon); front row: Jack Merkel (a resident of Moosic), James Antonelli (a resident of Hazleton), Gary Roberts (a resident of Moscow), Dennis Foster (a resident of South Sterling) and Mike Fisher (a resident of Wilkes–Barre).