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

by FRICKER RONALD D.

• ISBN13: 9780833028556
• ISBN10: 0833028553
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Figures	vii
Tables	ix
Summary	xi
Acknowledgments	xix
Acronyms	xxi
Building A Mechanism For Change: Precision Logistics and The Integrated Logistics Capability Initiative	1	(6)
Outline of the Report	5	(2)
The Inventory Fulcrum: Marine Corps Logistics Policy and Practice	7	(14)
Repair and Supply in the Fleet Marine Force	7	(4)
Supply	8	(2)
Inventory Performance Metrics	10	(1)
Looking into the Mirror of Current Performance	11	(10)
RCT Performance in the FMF	15	(3)
The ERO Fill Rate: Definition and Performance	18	(3)
A Lever For Raising Performance: An Improved Inventory Methodology	21	(24)
Illustrating Problems with Current Marine Corps Inventory Methodology	23	(1)
Properly Calculating the ROP: The Bootstrap ROP	24	(9)
How the Bootstrap ROP Methodology Works	25	(3)
Application to USMC Data	28	(2)
Examples of Bootstrap ROPs	30	(3)
Incorporating ``Bang for the Buck'': Dollar Banding	33	(4)
A Simple Example	33	(3)
Combining the Dollar-Banding and Bootstrap ROP Methodologies	36	(1)
Reducing the Length and Variability of the Replenishment Process	37	(5)
Conclusions	42	(3)
Pushing The Lever: Demonstrations of Improved Inventory Performance	45	(8)
The Virtual SMU	45	(1)
Creating a New GABF Using the Bootstrap	46	(3)
Further Improvements with Dollar Banding	49	(1)
Conclusions	50	(3)
Future Steps: Implementation, Methodological Improvements, Generalizations	53	(46)
For the Marine Corps	54	(2)
For Other Organizations	56	(3)
Appendix
A. Critical Repairs and the Ero Fill Rate	59	(6)
B. Basic Inventory Theory and Terminology	65	(6)
C. Common Marine Corps Reorder Point and The Operating Level Misconceptions	71	(4)
D. Using The Bootstrap to Calculate Reorder Points	75	(12)
E. The Virtual SMU	87	(12)
References	99