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Enterprise Sustainability: Enhancing the Military's Ability to Perform its Mission
Contributor(s): Mathaisel, Dennis F. X. (Author), Manary, Joel M. (Author), Comm, Clare L. (Author)
ISBN: 1420078585     ISBN-13: 9781420078589
Publisher: CRC Press
OUR PRICE:   $133.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2009
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Military supply chains are unique in that what is supplied to the end user is often returned to the supply chain for maintenance, repair, and overhaul. This book offers concepts and tools for enhancing the ability of the military to perform required supply chain duties. The author focuses on five main areas: availability, dependability, capability, affordability, and marketability. With a discussion of operational availability, the first section provides an understanding of current materials, inventory management practices, and supply chain integration strategies. Subsequent sections address performance-based logistics, life cycle cost models, and the reliability of weapons systems.
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- Business & Economics | Purchasing & Buying
- Technology & Engineering | Military Science
- Business & Economics | Quality Control
Dewey: 355.809
LCCN: 2009011790
Series: Sustaining the Military Enterprise
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 7" W x 10" (2.00 lbs) 416 pages
 
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Military supply chains are unique because what is supplied to the end user is routinely returned to the supply chain for maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO). Offering a blueprint for transforming military depot workload and processes into those of high-performance commercial facilities, Enterprise Sustainability: Enhancing the Military's Ability to Perform its Mission provides a powerful system of concepts and tools for enhancing the ability of the military to perform MRO on its weapon systems. These concepts and tools are applicable to any enterprise, military or commercial, that is concerned about sustainability.

The text focuses on five abilities that must be considered to achieve efficient, cost-saving operations:

  • Availability of required parts, facilities, tools, and manpower

  • Dependability of the weapon systems

  • Capability of the enterprise to perform the mission

  • Affordability and improving the life cycle cost (LCC) of a system or project

  • Marketability of concepts and motivating decision makers

Aging weapons systems, an aging workforce, limited financial resources, new technologies, and an increased military operational tempo demand that the military develop an aggressive transformation plan for its sustainability. This book follows An Architecture for a Lean Transformation, the first in a series dedicated to the sustainment of an enterprise. In this second volume, the authors continue to provide an analysis of, and prescription for, the strategies, principles, and technologies that are necessary to sustain an enterprise like the military and the weapons system it develops and utilizes.