Procurement and Management of Spares

Harrison S. Campbell

Expert InsightsPublished 1966

A discussion of the importance of military materiel, especially spares management, in the total military capability. Spares management includes organization, transportation, storage and handling, repair and cataloging, but it is fundamentally concerned with policies for stock control and determination of requirements. This study focuses on the use of inventory-control theory in the analysis of spares procurement and management. The discussion is presented in three parts: (1) the main choices in modeling logistics inventory and their interpretation; (2) a review of inventory models representing basic analytic approaches with the widest use in logistic systems; and (3) several special topics important to the study of spares management.

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Campbell, Harrison S., Procurement and Management of Spares. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1966. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3404.html.
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