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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 20

Organizational Redesign for Army Force Generation

We have increased the capacity of the Army, but it is being consumed as we build it.

—General Peter Schoomaker, Chief of Staff, Army, 2003–2007

The Department of Defense must take a hard look at every aspect of how it is organized, staffed, and operated.

—Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense, 8 May 2010

An honest and forthright postmortem begs the question: “Why has the state of army logistics become what it now is?” Two responses are offered here. First, external factors that are usually credited with driving significant change in business world supply chains during the past decade or more are not apparent, at least to the same degree, within the Department of Defense (DoD) logistics ...

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