Application of Meteor to the Evaluation of Multi-Echelon Inventory Models.

Abstract

The Navy supply system forms a complex multi-indenture, multiechelon system designed to provide support to operating units both afloat and ashore. The current inventory models used by the Navy do not consider explicitly the multi-echelon nature of the system, possibly resulting in misallocations of material and sub-optimal uses of funds. A simulation computer program, called Multi-Echelon Technique for Evaluating Readiness (METEOR), was developed in an earlier thesis to provide a means of evaluating the effects of the inventory models in existence at that time. This thesis enhances METEOR to model the Navy supply system and its current multi-echelon structure. Additionally, a heuristic, see-through model was developed that attempts to improve supply system performance by making shipboard demands visible to both intermediate and wholesale echelons. A preliminary comparison between this model and existing procedures and was conducted showed that the see-through model significantly improved effectiveness. Additional keywords: Monte Carlo method; FORTRAN; Weapon systems. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA156849

Entities

People

  • D. B. Wadsworth

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Computers
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Information Science
  • Inventory Control
  • Lead Time
  • Logistics
  • Measures Of Effectiveness
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • Supply Depots
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Beds

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.