War Logistics

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WAR LOGISTICS

IN ARMED FORCES

Prepared By:

Muhammad Ali Yasir


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Agenda

Prologue

Difference Between Corporate and

Military SCM

The Components and Success Factors of

Military SC

Key Findings

Questions and Comments


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Logistics, as vital to military

success as daily food is todaily work.

-Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan,

Armaments and Arbitration, 1912


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Prologue


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Military Logistics

It is the science of planning and carrying out the

movement and maintenance of armed forces.

In its most comprehensive sense, those aspects of

military operations deal with:

1. Design, development, acquisition, storage,

distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and

disposition of material


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Military Logistics

2. Movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of

personnel

3. Acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation,

and disposition of facilities

4. Acquisition or furnishing of services


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Military Supply Chain

It integrates acquisition, supply, maintenance,

and transportation functions with the physical,

financial, information, and communications

networks in a results-oriented approach to satisfy

joint force material requirements.


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Difference between

Corporate & Military

Supply Chain


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Corporate Supply Chain

SCM organizes the overall business process to

enable the profitable transformation of raw

materials or products into finished goods and

their timely distribution to meet customer

demands.


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Corporate Supply Chain


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SCM for the military is slightly different from SCM

for corporate organizations because the militarys

focus is on mission requirements rather than onquarterly earnings.


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Components of Military

Supply Chain

and Success Factors


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ComponentsThe components of SCM for military are same as

the components of business:

Suppliers

Procurement

Manufacturing

Order Management Transportation

Warehousing

Customers (Soldiers)


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Success FactorsMilitarys essential success factors differs from

the corporate success factors:

Customer needs

Information and communication

technologies Deployment within and outside the region


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Success Factors

Joint interoperability

Department of Defense regulations Environmental concerns (to include enemy

forces)

Mission requirements


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Key Findings


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Key Findings

SCM conceptual models for both business and the

Army are remarkably similar; however, there are

some significant differences:

Dual directional arrows on the chart for

transportation and for distribution and

warehousing in the Militarys SCM model.


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Key Findings

External factors that affect the supply chain:

o Joint interoperability among the servicescommand, control, communications and

intelligence systems

o Deployment of forces

o Soldier and mission requirements


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Key Findings

The logistics reflects the militarys focus on

mission accomplishment as opposed to

business focus on profitability.


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Questions

and

Comments

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