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Retooling for the Logistics Revolution
Designing Marine Corps Inventories to Support the Warfighter
This report presents new inventory management tools and techniques, relevant to both Precision Logistics and the Integrated Logistics Capability Initiative, to help the Marine Corps continue to improve logistics and repair processes.
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Contents
Preface PDF
Figures PDF
Tables PDF
Summary PDF
Acknowledgments PDF
Acronyms PDF
Chapter One:
Building a Mechanism for Change: Precision Logistics and the Integrated Logistics Capability Initiative PDF
Chapter Two:
The Inventory Fulcrum: Marine Corps Logistics Policy and Practice PDF
Chapter Three:
A Lever for Raising Performance: an Improved Inventory Methodology PDF
Chapter Four:
Pushing the Lever: Demonstrations of Improved Inventory Performance PDF
Chapter Five:
Future Steps: Implementation, Methodological Improvements, Feneralizations PDF
Appendix A:
Critical Repairs and the ERO Fill Rate PDF
Appendix B:
Basic Inventory Theory and Terminology PDF
Appendix C:
Common Marine Corps Reorder Point and the Operating Level Misconceptions PDF
Appendix D:
Using the Bootstrap to Calculate Reorder Points PDF
Appendix E:
The Virtual SMU PDF
References PDF
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