Retooling for the Logistics Revolution. Designing Marine Corps Inventories to Support the Warfighter

Abstract

In 1996 Marine Corps leaders, recognizing the need to improve logistics processes and supply support to the Fleet Marine Force (FMF), implemented the Precision Logistics program. One of the key ideas of Precision Logistics is envisioning logistics as a set of integrated processes: actions occur in a linked chain, with outputs from one source being transformed into inputs that satisfy the next link in the chain. Logistics then becomes an unbroken chain of activities, linking many actors, all aimed at achieving an overarching goal of providing efficient and effective warfighter support to sustain military operations in continuously faster, better, and cheaper fashion. While this concept is expressed in military-specific terminology, the idea is just as applicable to many civilian manufacturing and repair operations and is often referred to as "supply chain management" in the current logistics literature.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA379560

Entities

People

  • Marc L. Robbins
  • Ronald D. Fricker Jr.

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Combat Readiness
  • Commerce
  • Computational Science
  • Deployment
  • End Items
  • Information Systems
  • Inventory
  • Lead Time
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Management
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Organizations
  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Management
  • United States

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.