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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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Military Supply Chain
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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Military Supply Chain
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Components of Military
Supply Chain
and Success Factors
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Military Supply Chain
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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Military Supply Chain
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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Military Supply Chain
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