Pioneer Industries has been nominated by the DLA for the 2015 Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Business Alliance Awards. The Business Alliance Awards is designed to recognize industry partners and customers for their outstanding efforts in providing quality products and services, and assisting in the accomplishment of the DLA Mission. Pioneer has been nominated in the following categories: Vendor Excellence, Outstanding Readiness Support Contractors, Commanders’ Choice Award, and Recognized Cost Saver Award. Best of luck to all of the fellow nominees.
Members of the Pioneer team traveled to Baltimore to meet with several vendors and a customer. The visit gave Pioneer an opportunity to meet additional key members in Sales and Engineering, to see and further understand vendor products, and discuss strategies to win future business. One of the meetings was with a new “start- up” vendor. Topics discussed during this meeting included how the Preferred Vendor Program can benefit the newly rising company. Pioneer visited a customer in the area to gain feedback on how to better support their needs.
Pioneer Industries is pleased to report we have received a 100% Supplier Performance report from Lockheed Martin. The Quality rating includes five components: Part rejects, Floor rejects, Supplier Cause and Corrective Action Requests (SCARs) issued, SCAR response time, and Supplier caused customer escapes. The Delivery rating includes: Parts delivered on time to purchase order contract.
WARNER ROBBINS, GA – Pioneer has received another order to supply Warner Robbins Air Force base with a unique Polyurethane foam kit that is specifically designed for aircraft parts. This order is for 3400 units valued at more than $500,000. All kitting will be performed at Pioneer’s New York facility. Pioneer will ship in monthly releases over a six month period to extend the shelf life and thereby extending the item application viability.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of the Pioneer Industries team have been selected for the Board of Directors of a new Navy initiative group. Vice President, David Yormack and National Sales Manager, Howard Fox, now sit on the Board of Directors for Navy Now. The Navy Now campaign is dedicated to increasing the Department of Navy’s budget to provide the U.S. Navy with much needed funding. The U.S. Navy is the first response and forward deployed force, therefore making their position important in matters of National Defense.
COLUMBUS, OH -Pioneer has recently received roughly $1,000,000 in orders for transmission control assemblies in support of the Hummer reset program. The government considers this material “urgent and compelling” stressing the priority. Pioneer is shipping these orders ahead of schedule in coordination with the DLA, the factory, and the end-user. The Pioneer staff is working with the buying command for a follow on order, as well.
Las Vegas, NV – Members of Pioneer attended this year’s SHOT Show held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The SHOT Show is the largest trade show of its kind featuring more than 1,600 exhibitors serving the firearms, ammunition, and hunting industries. The show offers a uniquely diverse Law Enforcement and Armed Forces section for agency and department purchasing agents. It was a useful forum to meet with some of PVP Members, considered the elite manufacturers of weaponry for the military. The Pioneer team also attended an invite only “range day” held by SIG SAUER to see and test the latest in weaponry.
WARREN, MI – Pioneer Industries, Inc. has been invited to participate in a new “nonstandard item acquisition program” to help the U.S. Military support foreign defense agencies. Pioneer’s inside sales force has already been able to identify and resurrect items that have previously been deemed unprocurable.
Pioneer’s participation in this new program is expected to help Pioneer better reach the end user and result in a cost saving to the taxpayer.
COLUMBUS, OH – Pioneer Industries has been honored with the Bronze DLA Land and Maritime Recognition for Excellence Award for 2012. The selection of this award was based upon the excellent performance measured by the Automated Best Value System (ABVS), as well as other criteria such as business ethics, integrity, among other factors. This is the third consecutive year Pioneer has received a Recognition for Excellence Award from the Defense Logistics Agency.
