eLog21 (Expeditionary Logistics for the 21st Century) was an Air Force-wide transformation campaign that at its peak, was comprised of over 20 initiatives that will fundamentally revolutionize the way the Air Force provides logistics support by improving logistics to meet both the current and future threat environment. It was an action-focused strategy that guides key logistic transformation initiatives to realize expeditionary logistics.
Targeted at business process redesign, performance metrics, training, systems, supply chain management, change management, maintenance, and more, with the primary objective of improving logistics operations, eLOG21 represented the Air Force's commitment to boldly change current logistics processes to better support the warfighter. eLog21 was the result of the integration of three grassroots Air Force transformational efforts: the SPARES campaign, the Chief Logistics Review, and the Depot Maintenance Reengineering Transformation.
The eLog21 Campaign plan was designed to transition Air Force logistic processes from the current reactionary, functionally stove-piped processes to an anticipatory (planning based), cross-functional (highly trained), integrated (fully visibility by all parties), high performance (new metrics) operation. Individual elements of eLog21 were rolled out in a phased approach to allow time for process development, integration, and training. The first elements began in 2001, and the full implementation was completed in 2012.
Clearly, eLog21 was more than a technology implementation; it was a fundamental business process redesign. Technology was not the focus of the campaign but the enabler. The goal was to enable the changes in processes and operations to take place by providing new technologies and capabilities. A transformation this large had a major impact across the entire logistics enterprise.
The “2012 - 2022 Air Force Enterprise Logistics Strategy” (approved by theAir Force Logistics Board in October 2012) subsumed aspects of and superseded eLOG21 as the Air Force’s primary logistics transformation initiative. Details are available on the Air Force Enterprise Logistics Portal Page.
