ON THE ECONOMIC APPLICATION OF AIRLIFT TO RESUPPLY AND ITS IMPACT ON INVENTORY LEVELS

Abstract

The study demonstrates how, in a supply system, the inventory stock levels needed for a specified level of customer service vary as a function of the requisition lead time and pattern. The study presents a practical method to determine the savings in inventory holding cost made possible by reducing requisition lead time for problems involving several million different line items. The approach developed was applied successfully to the peacetime military overseas resupply problem involving over 200 supply distribution points with more than two million different line items. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0662659

Entities

People

  • A. Soriano
  • Dustin E. Gross

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Cargo Aircraft
  • Computers
  • Distribution Functions
  • Geographic Regions
  • Inventory Control
  • Lead Time
  • Logistics
  • Normal Distribution
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Standards
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transport Aircraft

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Regression Analysis.