Defense Performance Review Metrics: Wood Products Initiative.

Abstract

A test was conducted to compare the performance of local purchase against a modified form of central procurement for wood products. During a test period of January 1, 1995 through September 30, 1995, two Marine bases were each instructed to purchase wood products via one of the test methods and to report test metrics. The base using local purchase reported generally higher prices averaging about 10% along with longer lead times of 9 days. The quality of material delivers was judged to be the same in each test case. The customers of local purchase reported higher levels of satisfaction during the conduct of the test. Therefore, it was concluded that the modified central procurement method was competitive with local purchase and should be expanded into additional geographical areas where the demand and market conditions warrant a similar contract type.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA305729

Entities

People

  • Paul E. Grover
  • Sharan E. Dockery

Organizations

  • Defense Logistics Agency

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Contracts
  • Data Analysis
  • Descriptive Analytics
  • Experimental Design
  • Information Science
  • Lead Time
  • Logistics
  • Marine Corps
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Operations Research
  • Procurement
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • Surveys
  • Test Methods

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