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Transforming US Army Supply Chains
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Transforming US Army Supply Chains

by Greg Parlier
March 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
275 pages
7h 38m
English
Business Expert Press
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Chapter 6

Operational Mission and Training Demand Stage

We must operationally link logistics support to maneuver in order to produce desired operational outcomes.

—General Peter J. Schoomaker, chief of staff, U.S. Army

Good demand forecasting is the most important thing in controlling the level of inventory.

—Jim Erdman, senior vice president, Penske Logistics

What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it.

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, from The Black Swan

Figure 14. Mission demand stage.

Our military strategy is evolving from the Cold War’s “threat-based” force-planning concept, which was ...

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