Year in Review 2007-2008: Goal 10: Business Excellence
Ensuring that taxpayers' money is spent wisely is serious business at Los Alamos. The Laboratory continues to deliver improved business tools, systems, and processes that help meet the needs of our employees, reduce the cost of doing business, and improve its mission performance.
- Lean Six Sigma efforts at LANL produce $22 million in benefits
- New LANL purchasing system offers increased buying power, quicker procurements
- ShipIt software streamlines LANL mail-shopping process
- eAuction procurement tool implemented, giving Lab customers their products faster, cheaper
- Subcontractor program introduced to help promote better management, oversight
- LANL to assume work from subcontractor KSL
- Los Alamos wall-to-wall inventory of controlled personal property "outstanding"
- New Vital Records Program prepares Lab in case of emergency, disaster
Deliver improved business processes, systems, and tools that meet the needs of our employees, reduce the cost of doing business, and improve the Laboratory’s mission performance
We will implement modern tools to meet the needs of employees, implement efficient processes to provide integration and perform our work, and demonstrate compliance and manage our costs while meeting mission goals safely and securely.