Report
Operation IRAQI FREEDOM: Decisive War, Elusive Peace
Summarizes a classified five-volume report on the planning and execution of operations in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM through June 2004. Recommends changes to Army plans, operational concepts, doctrine, and Title 10 functions.
Jan 4, 2016
Report
Developing a Repeatable Methodology to Calculate Retrograde Planning Factors
This report describes a repeatable methodology for the U.S. Army to use in developing accurate retrograde planning factors.
Aug 12, 2015
Research Brief
What Should Be Stocked in War Reserve? A New Method for Allocating Resources
Describes the methodology used to develop resource allocation and forward positioning recommendations for the sustainment stock portion of Army pre-positioned stocks, given a specific scenario and budget.
Dec 15, 2011
Research Brief
Targeted Use of Theater Inventory to Effectively Sustain Overseas Forces While Minimizing Supply Chain Costs
Discusses how to design a distribution network that takes advantage of the respective strengths of different modes of transportation to meet combatant command needs while minimizing total supply chain costs.
Nov 29, 2011
Report
A Funding Allocation Methodology for War Reserve Secondary Items
Describes the methodology used to develop resource allocation and forward positioning recommendations for the sustainment stock portion of Army pre-positioned stocks, given a specific scenario and budget.
Mar 2, 2010
Report
Effectively Sustaining Forces Overseas While Minimizing Supply Chain Costs: Targeted Theater Inventory
Discusses how to design a distribution network that takes advantage of the respective strengths of different modes of transportation to meet combatant command needs while minimizing total supply chain costs.
Jun 15, 2008
Report
Stockage Determination Made Easy
This article explains how the Army has been able to achieve historically high levels of performance in its tactical inventories of repair parts by applying a series of RAND-developed process and algorithm improvements.
Dec 19, 2007
Periodical
RAND Review: Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring 2006
Addresses a set of shortfalls in U.S. performance in Iraq and identifies options for improvement, particularly with respect to sustaining army forces, promoting reenlistments, and rebuilding Iraqi security.
2006
Report
Sustainment of Army Forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Major Findings and Recommendations
Describes how well the Department of Defense logistics system supported Army forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom, documents the major reasons for shortfalls in performance, provides recommendations for improvement, and points to questions raised with respect to the design of future forces.
Dec 13, 2005
Report
Sustainment of Army Forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Battlefield Logistics and Effects on Operations
Describes how Army forces were sustained with materiel during Operation Iraqi Freedom, examines how well this support performed, and discusses the effects on operations, emphasizing the period from the start of ground combat to the fall of Baghdad.
2005
Report
Dollar Cost Banding: A New Algorithm for Computing Inventory Levels for Army Supply Support Activities
Describes the development and implementation of dollar cost banding, a new algorithm for computing inventories maintained by Army supply support activities (SSAs).
Sep 2, 2004
Research Brief
Improved Inventory Policy Contributes to Equipment Readiness
Develop a new algorithm for calculating inventory levels in SSAs. Known as dollar cost banding (DCB), the new algorithm has produced immediate and significant gains in performance at little or no additional inventory cost.
2001
Report
Velocity Management: The Business Paradigm That Has Transformed U.S. Army Logistics
Velocity management has brought a new way of doing business to U.S. Army logistics, with a renewed focus on the Army customer and a powerful approach for process improvement that cuts across three critical performance dimensions: time, ...
2001
Research Brief
Speeding the Flow: How the Army Cut Order-and-Ship Time
Summarizes the dramatic improvements in speed and reliability that have been achieved in the Army's order-and-ship process.
1998
Report
Establishing a Baseline and Reporting Performance for the Order and Ship Processes
This document annotates a slightly modified version of an executive briefing that was presented to the Logistics Triad in August 1995.
1996
Report
New Tools for Balancing Theater Combat and Support
This documented briefing presents an overview of tools being developed to help the Army analyze the effects of limitations on the size and speed of its deployments.
1996
Report
Improving DoD Logistics: Perspectives from RAND Research
This documented briefing summarizes the results of RAND's logistics research and discusses its implications for reforming DoD logistics.
1995
Report
Estimating Conventional Munitions Requirements: Toward Improved Processes
This report is concerned with the methods the services use to determine their conventional munitions requirements (point estimates of the quantities of munitions the services would buy to arm their planned forces given sufficient funds).
1991
Report
The Marines' ground-attack conventional munitions requirements process
This Note describes and suggests improvements to the requirement methodologies for ground-fired conventional ammunition developed for the U.S. Marine Corps. The analysis deals primarily with the shooter-oriented level-of-effort (SOLOE) and the target...
1991
Report
The Army's Conventional Munitions Acquisition Process
This Note describes the Army's conventional munitions acquisition process from the generation of the estimate of the requirements for munitions to the decisions on what mix of munitions will actually be funded.
1989