Title: Retooling for the logistics revolution :
Authors: Fricker, Ronald D.,; Robbins, Marc L.,; Rand Corporation.; National Defense Research Institute (U.S.).; United States.
Date: 2000
Publisher: Rand,
Physical description: xxiii, 100 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: V
Abstract: This report presents new inventory management techniques to help the Marine Corps continue to improve logistics and repair processes. The authors advocate two modern computational methods--"bootstrapping the ROP" and "dollar banding"--and demonstrate via simulations that these new tools lead to dramatically improved supply system performance for the Marine Corps. In particular, using actual data from a Marine Expeditionary Force General Account, they show significant improvements in all supply system performance metrics; they also demonstrate the benefit of reducing order and ship times for the Marines. The improvements result not only in more fiscally efficient operation, but also in better delivery of retail supply to the ultimate user--the Marine warfighter. The results are broadly applicable across the Marine Corps, the other military services, and the civilian business sector.
Contents: Ch. 1. Building a Mechanism for Change: Precision Logistics and the Integrated Logistics Capability Initiative -- Ch. 2. The Inventory Fulcrum: Marine Corps Logistics Policy and Practice -- Repair and Supply in the Fleet Marine Force -- Looking into the Mirror of Current Performance -- Ch. 3. A Lever for Raising Performance: An Improved Inventory Methodology -- Illustrating Problems with Current Marine Corps Inventory Methodology -- Properly Calculating the ROP: The Bootstrap ROP -- Incorporating "Bang for the Buck": Dollar Banding -- Reducing the Length and Variability of the Replenishment Process -- Conclusions -- Ch. 4. Pushing the Lever: Demonstrations of Improved Inventory Performance -- The Virtual SMU -- Creating a New GABF Using the Bootstrap -- Further Improvements with Dollar Banding -- Conclusions -- Ch. 5. Future Steps: Implementation, Methodological Improvements, Generalizations -- For the Marine Corps -- For Other Organizations -- App. A. Critical Repairs and the ERO Fill Rate -- App. B. Basic Inventory Theory and Terminology -- App. C. Common Marine Corps Reorder Point and the Operating Level Misconceptions -- App. D. Using the Bootstrap to Calculate Reorder Points -- App. E. The Virtual SMU.
Notes: "MR-1096-USMC." "Prepared for the United States Marine Corps."
Subject headings (LCSH): Logistics.; Transportation, Military--United States.; United States. Marine Corps--Management--Automation.; United States. Marine Corps--Management--Data processing.; United States. Marine Corps--Supplies and stores.