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Tables of Contents for Retooling for the Logistics Revolution
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
iii
Figures
vii
Tables
ix
Summary
xi
Acknowledgments
xix
Acronyms
xxi
Building a Mechanism for Change: Precision Logistics and the Integrated Logistics Capability Initiative
1
6
Outline of the Report
5
2
The Inventory Fulcrum: Marine Corps Logistics Policy and Practice
7
14
Repair and Supply in the Fleet Marine Force
7
4
Supply
8
2
Inventory Performance Metrics
10
1
Looking into the Mirror of Current Performance
11
10
RCT Performance in the FMF
15
3
The ERO Fill Rate: Definition and Performance
18
3
A Lever for Raising Performance: An Improved Inventory Methodology
21
24
Illustrating Problems with Current Marine Corps Inventory Methodology
23
1
Properly Calculating the ROP: The Bootstrap ROP
24
9
How the Bootstrap ROP Methodology Works
25
3
Application to USMC Data
28
2
Examples of Bootstrap ROPs
30
3
Incorporating ``Bang for the Buck'': Dollar Banding
33
4
A Simple Example
33
3
Combining the Dollar-Banding and Bootstrap ROP Methodologies
36
1
Reducing the Length and Variability of the Replenishment Process
37
5
Conclusions
42
3
Pushing the Lever: Demonstrations of Improved Inventory Performance
45
8
The Virtual SMU
45
1
Creating a New GABF Using the Bootstrap
46
3
Further Improvements with Dollar Banding
49
1
Conclusions
50
3
Future Steps: Implementation, Methodological Improvements, Generalizations
53
46
For the Marine Corps
54
2
For Other Organizations
56
3
Appendix
A. Critical Repairs and the Ero Fill Rate
59
6
B. Basic Inventory Theory and Terminology
65
6
C. Common Marine Corps Reorder Point and the Operating Level Misconceptions
71
4
D. Using the Bootstrap to Calculate Reorder Points
75
12
E. The Virtual SMU
87
12
References
99