Forecasting Fuels Support Equipment Requisitions

Abstract

Within the past two years the Air Force has begun transitioning management of equipment from regionalized management at Command Equipment Management Offices (CEMOs) to centralized enterprise management offices. The fuels support equipment (FSE) inventory is a subcategory of Air Force equipment, the management of which has recently transferred from CEMOs to the Air Force Petroleum Agency (AFPA). Because FSE inventory was previously managed regionally, there is a gap in descriptive data for the enterprise FSE inventory. This study attempts to close this information gap through describing the current inventory position, defining historical FSE demand, and using this knowledge to forecast 2015's anticipated FSE demand using time and unit aggregation in conjunction with simple exponential smoothing. The results are useful to AFPA as the enterprise manager of FSE and to Air Force Item Managers as the acquisition managers for FSE. Lastly, this research is intended as a stepping stone into more detail study of the AF FSE inventory and supply chain.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 26, 2015
Accession Number
ADA615162

Entities

People

  • Justin P. D'agostino

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Equipment
  • Business Administration
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Materials
  • Organizational Structure
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Telemetry Equipment
  • Time Intervals
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Theoretical Analysis.