Title: Retooling for the Logistics Revolution: Designing Marine Corps Inventories to Support the Warfighter
Abstract: Abstract : In 1996 Marine Corps leaders, recognizing the need to improve logistics processes and 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.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-07-11
Language: en
Type: book
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