Transforming US Army Supply Chains

Preface

Fully engaged in the Global War on Terror during what has been characterized as “an era of persistent conflict,” the U.S. Army is also committed to an ambitious “enterprise transformation.” Fundamentally, however, without an enabling transformation in logistics there can be no genuine, comprehensive army-wide transformation. This book presents an analytical framework that has guided an ongoing project addressing major challenges confronting Logistics Transformation for the army’s materiel enterprise. The focus here is on inventory management policy prescriptions illuminated through the prism of an enterprise-wide supply chain analysis. Since the project was initiated at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM), Army aviation ...