Enterprise Sustainability
Enhancing the Military’s Ability to Perform its Mission
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Book Description
Military supply chains are unique because what is supplied to the end user is routinely returned to the supply chain for maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO). Offering a blueprint for transforming military depot workload and processes into those of high-performance commercial facilities, Enterprise Sustainability: Enhancing the Military’s Ability to Perform its Mission provides a powerful system of concepts and tools for enhancing the ability of the military to perform MRO on its weapon systems. These concepts and tools are applicable to any enterprise, military or commercial, that is concerned about sustainability.
The text focuses on five abilities that must be considered to achieve efficient, cost-saving operations:
- Availability of required parts, facilities, tools, and manpower
- Dependability of the weapon systems
- Capability of the enterprise to perform the mission
- Affordability and improving the life cycle cost (LCC) of a system or project
- Marketability of concepts and motivating decision makers
Aging weapons systems, an aging workforce, limited financial resources, new technologies, and an increased military operational tempo demand that the military develop an aggressive transformation plan for its sustainability. This book follows An Architecture for a Lean Transformation, the first in a series dedicated to the sustainment of an enterprise. In this second volume, the authors continue to provide an analysis of, and prescription for, the strategies, principles, and technologies that are necessary to sustain an enterprise like the military and the weapons system it develops and utilizes.
Table of Contents
Availability: The Current Military Supply Chain
Availability of Materials and Parts to the Warfighter
The Military Supply Chain and Logistics System
Managing the Inventory
Availability: Enhancing the Military Supply Chain
Three Principles for an Effective Military Supply Chain
Six Steps for Enhancing the Military Supply Chain
Redesigning the Military Logistics Network
Information Technology Enhancements
Software Enhancements
Case Study: The SCOR Model
Case Study: The PRISM Model
Conclusion: Successful vs. Unsuccessful Supply Chain Initiatives
Operational Availability
Introduction to Operational Availability
The Mathematics of Ao
Models for Ao
Mission Profile
A Guide to Ao Analysis
Conclusion
Reliability
Introduction to Reliability
Reliability by Design
Reliability Design Approaches
Reliability-Centered Maintenance
Maintainability
Overview
Preventive Maintenance
Corrective Maintenance
Testability and Diagnostics
Maintainability and Logistics Requirements
Maintainability and the Acquisition Process
Maintainability and the Manufacturing Process
Maintainability and Safety
Supportability
Supportability Metrics
Determining Mean Logistics Downtime
Designing for Supportability
Trade-off Analyses
Capability: Performance-Based Logistics
Introduction
PBL Program Activities
PBL Case Study: The V-22 Osprey
Capability: Performance Measures
Introduction
General Performance Measures
Lean Measures
Process Improvement Measures
Sustainability and Supportability Performance Measures
Case Study: Rockwell Collins San Jose (RCSJ), California
Affordability
The Life Cycle
Life Cycle Cost (LCC)
The Life Cycle Costing Process
LCC Trade-off Analysis Tools
Currency Discounting
Case Study: Precision Approach Radar Modernization Project
Marketability
The Role of Marketing
The Target Market
Communication Vehicles
Communication Information Protocol
Communication Schedule
Managing the Change
Key Action Steps
Gap Analysis
Best Practice Case Study: Tobyhanna Army Depot
Author(s)
Biography
Dennis F. X. Mathaisel is professor of management science in the Department of Mathematics and Science at Babson College, and holds a doctor of philosophy degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joel M. Manary is the lead systems engineering subject matter expert in the Systems Engineering Process Office (SEPO), a staff agency supporting SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific in San Diego. He holds a master’s of science degree in logistics and systems acquisition management at the Air Force Institute of Technology. Clare L. Comm is professor of marketing in the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts–Lowell, where she specializes in services marketing and buyer behavior. She received a PhD in marketing from the University of Cincinnati.