DLA Materiel Readiness Support (MARS) System Interface with Service Readiness Models,

Abstract

This report investigates the potential for interfacing the DLA Materiel Readiness Support (MARS) System with the sparing-to-availability models of the Military Services. Although DLA is the DoD wholesale manager of millions of consumable items, it lacks a means of determining how it impacts on the materiel readiness of the services. This shortfall could be filled by interfacing the MARS system with the models of the Services. The report reviews the capabilities of the MARS system and then considers three popular Service models. It concludes that an aggregate analytic model approach could be used to relate consumable stock fund investment to weapon system availability by further development of the MARS system. A detailed line-item multi-echelon model approach is ruled out due to the lack of application data and the commonality of parts. The report documents the findings of a feasibility study and, as such, does not represent the official position of the Agency on how DLA should proceed in assessing its impact on materiel readiness. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA166478

Entities

People

  • Thomas J. Sheehan

Organizations

  • Defense Logistics Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Budgets
  • Cannibalization
  • Computations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economic Analysis
  • End Items
  • Inventory
  • Inventory Control
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • Logistics Planning
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Personnel
  • Operations Research
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Weapon Systems

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