By Mark Y.D. Wang
In June 1998, U.S. vp Al Gore and the nationwide Partnership for Reinventing executive provided a staff of U.S. military logisticians and RAND analysts the Hammer Award in reputation of an excellent accomplishment: streamlining military logistics. for many years, the functionality of military logistics fell steadily at the back of top advertisement practices. military mechanics may wait on common a month for spare elements from far-off offer depots to be able to fix a down weapon procedure. at the present time a high-velocity, streamlined military provide technique offers spare components in part the time it took to carry them simply three years past. in truth, nowadays it acutally takes much less time to get a spare half from a military offer depot than from a advertisement seller.
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The first objective is to establish a set of baseline metrics that can be used to communicate historical performance and future goals. Then as improvement efforts are initiated, one can use these metrics to objectively assess the success of specific improvements, as well as improvement over time. In this chapter we first provide some observations on data processing, then provide some overall descriptive statistics of the Army RL system, and then conclude with RL metrics and the Army’s historical performance using FY00 as a baseline.
19 A significant time savings is potentially possible here. As will be seen later in the report, the FSB-to-DOL transit times tend to be much shorter than the sum of FSB-to-MSB and MSB-to-DOL transit times. 20 Large numbers of turn-ins at one time may indicate that the unit is “batching” or collecting items before turning them in. This unnecessarily delays the RL process and should be avoided at the unit level. S. Department of Defense (DoD) agency that provides worldwide logistics support for the military, certain federal agencies, foreign governments, international organizations, and others as authorized.
How well the process is done. The first objective is to establish a set of baseline metrics that can be used to communicate historical performance and future goals. Then as improvement efforts are initiated, one can use these metrics to objectively assess the success of specific improvements, as well as improvement over time. In this chapter we first provide some observations on data processing, then provide some overall descriptive statistics of the Army RL system, and then conclude with RL metrics and the Army’s historical performance using FY00 as a baseline.
