INVENTORY MANAGEMENT: Greater Use of Best Practices Could Reduce DOD's Logistics Costs GAO/T-NSIAD-97-214

GAO-09-41 Defense Logistics: Improved Analysis and Cost Data Needed to Evaluate the Cost-effectiveness of Performance Based Logistics

In 2001, the Department of Defense (DOD) identified performance based logistics (PBL) as the preferred weapon system support strategy. Within DOD, PBL is the purchase of performance outcomes, such as system availability, rather than the purchase of individual elements of logistics support—such as parts, repairs, and engineering support. Although PBL initially arose from efforts to reduce suppor...

GAO-04-722 Information Technology: DOD's Acquisition Policies and Guidance Need to Incorporate Additional Best Practices and Controls

The MIDAS System for Automated Supply Chain Management

Inventory carrying costs represent a considerable portion of business logistics costs for manufacturing, and include the costs of interest, taxes, obsolescence, depreciation, insurance, and warehousing. Using an automated supply chain management system, these business logistics costs, particularly the inventory carrying costs and the logistics administration costs, can be reduced. The MIDAS sys...

FOREIGN MISSILE THREATS: Analytic Soundness of National Intelligence Estimate 95-19 GAO/T-NSIAD-97-53

Inventory Decisions in Dell's Supply Chain

The Tauber Manufacturing Institute (TMI) is a partnership between the engineering and business schools at the University of Michigan. In the summer of 1999, a TMI team spent 14 weeks at Dell Inc. in Austin, Texas, and developed an inventory model to identify inventory drivers and quantify target levels for inventory in the final stage of Dell’s supply chain, the revolvers or supplier logistics ...