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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 13

Designing for Resilience

Adaptive Logistics Network Concepts

Our wars have not been one size fits all, and neither have our logistics. We need to remain flexible in planning for future logistics…We need to sense, anticipate, respond, and do logistics better.

—General Paul Kern, commanding general, Army Materiel Command

Lean operations create brittleness in supply chains. With no redundancy to fall back on, operations can shut down quickly once a disruption takes place. Hence, a tight supply chain, by itself, may be an indication of danger…

—Yossi Sheffi, professor of engineering systems, MIT, from The Resilient Enterprise

resilient (definition) adj. 1. Springing back to a former shape or position; elastic. 2. Capable of rebounding ...

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