An evaluation of the budget and readiness impacts of battlegroup sparing
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
Description: Battlegroup sparing is an inventory strategy that can significantly reduce the initial outfitting costs of a weapon      system by greatly reducing the range and depth of spares required to outfit individual ships. This strategy      moves low demand items from shipboard spare part inventories to intermediate level inventories which support      an entire battlegroup. This thesis extends the techniques of Readiness Based Sparing (RBS) and proposes a      method for defining suites of spares at both the shipboard and battlegroup level which augment each other to      achieve a desired level of system readiness while realizing the efficiencies of battlegroup sparing. To evaluate      the impacts of this strategy, this thesis develops a computer simulation, which can be utilized to evaluate the      budget and readiness impacts of applying this or any other inventory strategy to a weapon system. The      methodology proposed by this thesis was then applied to the Cooperative Engagement System (CES),      reducing initial outfitting costs by nearly 50%, an overall savings of over thirty million dollars in scarce outfitting      funds.
Notes: Thesis advisor, Arnold Buss.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research) Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 75)

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