Implementing Category Management Across United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM)

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to implement category management (CM) in the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) enterprise. It also examines, classifies, and analyzes expenditures and spending trends for SOCOM. A spend analysis was conducted to identify spending trends and provide opportunity analysis to leverage buying power. Our methodology includes analyzing spend reports for SOCOM as a whole and conducting a gap analysis between the current CM state and the two future states: initial desired state and future ideal state. These analyses provide visibility and insight into SOCOM's expenditures and facilitate recommendations to close the gap and effectively implement CM. Our recommendations include spend-related actionable items for SOCOM to consider when implementing CM, immediate actionable items for SOCOM to stand its initial small-scale CM function to operate at initial operating capability (IOC), and future actionable items for SOCOM to implement CM at full operating capability (FOC).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1127160

Entities

People

  • Charlie M. Dacanay
  • Kelly R. Wright
  • Moises Guzman

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

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  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
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  • Commerce
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Department Of Defense
  • Gap Analysis
  • Governments
  • Information Science
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  • Logistics
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  • National Governments
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  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Management
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • United States Special Operations Command
  • Warfare

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