A Systems Approach to Inventory Management of Repairables in the Navy.

Abstract

This thesis develops an inventory model for repairable items which integrates the shipboard protection level into the wholesale stock level computations. It uses mean supply response time (MSRT) as its measure of effectiveness and provides methods for computing either the required wholesale stock level given a MSRT goal or for minimizing the system MSRT subject to budgetary constraints. Examples are provided which demonstrate the benefit of not batching for repair or procurement and the benefit of reducing repair turn around times. In both instances the benefit realized is a reduction in the number of each item required at the wholesale level to achieve the desired MSRT goal. keywords: inventory models, repairables, multi-echelon models, mean supply response time. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA156113

Entities

People

  • C. L. Apple

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Computations
  • Computer Programs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Inventory
  • Inventory Control
  • Lead Time
  • Maintenance
  • Mathematical Models
  • Operations Research
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Procurement
  • Production
  • Random Variables

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.