Improving Supply Support by Selectively Applying Safety Level Multipliers

Abstract

Currently the Air Force provides higher levels of supply support for OCONUS bases than it does for CONUS bases. OCONUS bases achieve higher levels of supply support because OCONUS bases have higher safety levels. OCONUS bases are authorized a safety level multiplier of 2 for weapon system items, while CONUS bases get a multiplier of 1. The SBSS calls the safety level multiplier the C factor. We found that by selectively applying the safety level multiplier(C factor) to a select group of items, based on cost, demand, and mission impact, the Air Force could reduce expected backorders at nearly no cost.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA412030

Entities

People

  • Christopher Boone
  • Doug Blazer
  • Gale Jarnagin
  • Marc Ferguson
  • Todd Gilreath

Organizations

  • Air Force Logistics Management Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air National Guard
  • Aircrafts
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Homeland Defense
  • Lead Time
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • National Guard
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Training
  • United States
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Operations Research