Air Force Supply Chain Management
Michelle Wilson
University of Phoenix
Operations Management
MGT 554 GA04MBA09
John Salvagno
Oct 09, 2005


Air Force Supply Chain Management
Existing Supply Chain
Supply chain management systems are designed to take care of the logistics end of the product distribution cycle—i.e., making sure that the order from the retailer for 500 gizmos arrives at the retailer in time for the weekend sale. Getting the information from the supply chain system back to headquarters—and into the production system, marketing database and accounting systems, just to name a few—is crucial to better decision-making and to providing a more accurate picture of the supply chain (Zimmerman, 2003, 1).
The U.S. Air Force supply chain for repairable commodities begins with the forecast, purchase, manufacture, and distribution of a part; continues with its delivery to a source of repair; and ends with the distribution of the now serviceable asset to retail......

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