Optimizing The Dod Supply Chain For The Future Joint Force

Optimizing the DoD Supply Chain for the Future Joint Force

"The future Joint Force will engage in an operating environment that is a complex mixture of uncertainty, change, and conflict. Among these complexities, global access will be challenged by anti-access and area-denial measures, focused on limiting the Joint Force's freedom of action in a persistent combination of combat, security, engagement, and relief and reconstruction operations. Furthermore, resource constraints will produce military-wide reductions and necessitate a more economical approach to global logistics. As efficiencies are achieved, though, global logistics must effectively sustain the Joint Force. A key factor of success or failure is the effectiveness and efficiency of the logistics enterprise, of which the supply chain is an enabling capability. The current Department of Defense (DoD) supply chain has reached its highest potential, and is neither effective nor efficient enough to meet the requirements of the Joint Force amidst the demands of the future operating environment. Therefore, a new emphasis is needed to achieve an optimal strategic fit between the national defense strategy and the supply chain strategy. The fit will be made possible by changes in DoD logistics policy, strategy, organizational structure, management, and processes. Additionally, best business practices in the commercial sector must continue to be adopted and adapted to the military environment, thereby providing benchmarks that will position the DoD supply chain on the leading edge of global logistics. With these changes, the DoD supply chain will be optimized to support the future Joint Force in a complex and challenging operating environment."--Abstract.

Joint Force Quarterly

Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2007