LEAP (Logistics Effectiveness Analysis Process) Vis-a-Vis SESAME (selected Essential-Item Stockage for Availability Method)

Abstract

It is possible to compute the quantity of spare parts needed for aviation weapons systems by two different models, the Logistics Effectiveness Analysis Process (LEAP), and the Selected Computer Essential-Item Stockage of Availability Method (SESAME). SESAME is detailed, complex, and somewhat difficult to use correctly while LEAP is simplistic and easy to use. It was desired to know how the results of the models differed and a comparison of the two models was performed. Even though both LEAP and SESAME can compute spare parts requirements, they do so with different underlying assumptions. The spare parts computation of each model depends on at least one parameter which is not used in the other model. Using sample data, it was possible to vary those parameters, so that the spare parts requirements computed by the models were somewhat similar. However the similarity of the results depends on the manipulation of the parameters, not necessarily a fundamental similarity of the models. Keywords: Provisioning; Replenishment Spares; Computations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA177445

Entities

People

  • Frank Fox

Organizations

  • United States Army Aviation and Missile Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Army Aviation
  • Availability
  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Control Knobs
  • Databases
  • Deployment
  • Equations
  • Inventory
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Mathematics
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Spare Parts
  • Supply Chain Management

Readers

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