Research Brief
In Support of the Warfighter: Reinventing Marine Corps Inventory Management
Dec 31, 1999
Retooling for the Logistics Revolution
Designing Marine Corps Inventories to Support the Warfighter
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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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Table of Contents
Chapter One
Building a Mechanism for Change: Precision Logistics and the Integrated Logistics Capability Initiative
Chapter Two
The Inventory Fulcrum: Marine Corps Logistics Policy and Practice
Chapter Three
A Lever for Raising Performance: an Improved Inventory Methodology
Chapter Four
Pushing the Lever: Demonstrations of Improved Inventory Performance
Chapter Five
Future Steps: Implementation, Methodological Improvements, Generalizations
Appendix A
Critical Repairs and the ERO Fill Rate
Appendix B
Basic Inventory Theory and Terminology
Appendix C
Common Marine Corps Reorder Point and the Operating Level Misconceptions
Appendix D
Using the Bootstrap to Calculate Reorder Points
Appendix E
The Virtual SMU
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