Mission Item Essentiality: An Important Management Tool for Making More Informed Logistics Decisions.

Abstract

Mission item essentiality, the means by which the essentiality of individual items is linked to mission essentiality of the end-item, offers vast potential as a management tool for the services in making logistics decisions concerning requirements determination, resource allocation, and repair priorities. The Department of Defense has developed a concept guide for use by the services. However, the Department has allowed the services to proceed at their own pace and approach the matter from different viewpoints. As a result, progress has been slow. GAO believes that the Department should require the services to follow the concept guide and establish milestones for accomplishing the specific tasks set forth in the guide. The Air Force is ahead of the other services in developing a conceptually sound essentiality coding system but has run into problems in implementing the system. GAO believes that once the implementation problems have been resolved, the system will greatly benefit the Air Force in its logistics decision-making process. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 13, 1982
Accession Number
ADA109734

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Data Processing Equipment
  • Department Of Defense
  • End Items
  • Inventory
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Support
  • Organizational Structure
  • Processing Equipment
  • Procurement
  • United States
  • Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).