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Transforming U.S. Army supply chains : strategies for management innovation / Greg H. Parlier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: 2 | BEPSeries: Supply and operations management collectionPublisher: [New York, N.Y.] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, [(c)2011.]Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 electronic text (xxxii, 290 pages) : digital fileContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781606492369
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleLOC classification:
  • UC263
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Contents:
Part I. Project overview -- 1. Background -- 2. The immediate problem -- 3. Current logistics structure -- 4. Supply chain concepts: analytical foundation for improving logistics system effectiveness --
Part II. Multistage analysis of systemic challenges -- 5. Readiness production stage: tactical units -- 6. Operational mission and training demand stage -- 7. Retail stage: tactical level -- 8. Reverse logistics stage: retrograde -- 9. Wholesale stage: national level -- 10. Acquisition stage -- 11. Summary --
Part III. Multistage integration for efficiency, resilience, and effectiveness -- 12. Achieving efficiency: an integrated multiechelon inventory solution -- 13. Designing for resilience: adaptive logistics network concepts -- 14. Improving effectiveness: pushing the logistics performance envelope --
Part IV. Design and evaluation: an analytical architecture to guide logistics transformation -- 15. Multistage supply chain optimization -- 16. System dynamics modeling and dynamic strategic planning -- 17. Operational and organizational risk evaluation -- 18. Logistics system readiness and program development -- 19. Accelerating transformation: an engine for innovation --
Part V. Management concepts for transformation -- 20. Organizational redesign for army force generation -- 21. Contributions of (transactional) information system technology and (analytical) operations research -- 22. Performance-based logistics and capabilities-based planning for an expeditionary army -- 23. Financial management challenges to business modernization -- 24. Human capital investment for a collaborative enterprise -- 25. Strategic management concepts for a learning organization -- 26. Final thoughts --
Appendix A. Acronyms -- Appendix B. Additional reading -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract: This text offers a practical approach for understanding the U.S. Army's extremely complex global logistics system, widely acknowledged as one of the largest in the world. The focus is on inventory management policy where prescriptions are illuminated through the prism of an enterprise supply chain analysis.
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Part I. Project overview -- 1. Background -- 2. The immediate problem -- 3. Current logistics structure -- 4. Supply chain concepts: analytical foundation for improving logistics system effectiveness --

Part II. Multistage analysis of systemic challenges -- 5. Readiness production stage: tactical units -- 6. Operational mission and training demand stage -- 7. Retail stage: tactical level -- 8. Reverse logistics stage: retrograde -- 9. Wholesale stage: national level -- 10. Acquisition stage -- 11. Summary --

Part III. Multistage integration for efficiency, resilience, and effectiveness -- 12. Achieving efficiency: an integrated multiechelon inventory solution -- 13. Designing for resilience: adaptive logistics network concepts -- 14. Improving effectiveness: pushing the logistics performance envelope --

Part IV. Design and evaluation: an analytical architecture to guide logistics transformation -- 15. Multistage supply chain optimization -- 16. System dynamics modeling and dynamic strategic planning -- 17. Operational and organizational risk evaluation -- 18. Logistics system readiness and program development -- 19. Accelerating transformation: an engine for innovation --

Part V. Management concepts for transformation -- 20. Organizational redesign for army force generation -- 21. Contributions of (transactional) information system technology and (analytical) operations research -- 22. Performance-based logistics and capabilities-based planning for an expeditionary army -- 23. Financial management challenges to business modernization -- 24. Human capital investment for a collaborative enterprise -- 25. Strategic management concepts for a learning organization -- 26. Final thoughts --

Appendix A. Acronyms -- Appendix B. Additional reading -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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This text offers a practical approach for understanding the U.S. Army's extremely complex global logistics system, widely acknowledged as one of the largest in the world. The focus is on inventory management policy where prescriptions are illuminated through the prism of an enterprise supply chain analysis.

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