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G--Sustainment Readiness Levels
Pages 207-210

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... and Army officials, program managers, and materiel management centers to formally address and focus attention on the long-standing need, first identified by the Government Accountability Office on its high-risk list of federal agency shortcomings in 1990, to correct persistent problems in supply chain management, including deficiencies in demand forecasting, inventory policy, and strategic resource planning. In the case of Army aviation, cost savings derived from implementing each of these supply chain policies have been estimated to be on the order of many multiples of $100 million (Parlier, 2010)
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From page 208...
... to support a CBM program?  If so, how is remaining useful life prognostic information used to connect CBM to the supply chain for anticipatory supply support; what algorithms or processes are used, and what impact does this ability have on operational readiness, DLR and LRU positioning and distribution, materiel availability, and aggregate requirement objective reduction across the supply support enterprise?
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From page 209...
...  If multiple stages (organizational echelons beyond the retail level) exist for supply distribution and/or maintenance support, what multi-echelon inventory optimization method, if any, is used for inventory distribution allocation across the supply support network?
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Key Terms

  • supply support
  • readiness levels
  • requirement objective
  • inventory optimization
  • customer demand

  • support network
  • remaining useful
  • future capabilities
  • sustainment readiness
  • sustainment phase

  • technology readiness
  • aggregate requirement
  • useful life
  • optimization method
  • materiel availability

  • assessment tools
  • x institutional
  • multistage supply
  • described herein
  • versus readiness

  • repairs caused
  • government accountability
  • potential magnitude
  • materiel enterprise
  • readiness reporting

  • force management
  • chain policies
  • integration opportunities
  • life cycles
  • life prognostic


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