| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 68 pages) : color illustrations, charts |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
"Prepared for the United States Army." |
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"Arroyo center." |
| Summary |
Velocity Management has brought a new way of doing business to U.S. Army logistics, with a renewed focus on the Army customer and a powerful approach for process improvement that cuts across three critical performance dimensions: time, quality, and cost. The goal is to reduce the need for massive logistics resources by increasing the speed and accuracy with which materials and information are delivered. Key logistics processes are defined, measured, and improved continuously, so that customers -- Army units in garrison and deployed worldwide -- get what they need, when they need it, and at minimal cost. The results are telling: Army logistics processes that were massive in scale, unresponsive to change, unreliable in performance, and inefficient have undergone dramatic and sustained improvement. Today a high-velocity, streamlined supply process delivers repair parts in less than half the time it took to deliver them just three years earlier. The authors reveal the story of Velocity Management's success: the motivations, methodology, and management structure behind the initiative; the process improvements that have led to quick and impressive results; and the steps taken to develop and institutionalize the capabilities needed to achieve and sustain future improvement. |
| Contents |
Preface; Figures & Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Glossary; 1. A Paradigm for Dramatically Improved Performance; 2. Velocity Management in Action; 3. Extending the Paradigm; 4. Linking Process Improvement to Increased Equipment Readiness; 5. Sustaining the Velocity Management Initiatives; 6. Coda: Velocity Management and the Transformation of the Army; Bibliography; About the Authors. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Army -- Procurement.
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United States. Army. |
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United States. Army -- Supplies and stores.
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United States. Army -- Management.
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Management. |
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United States. Army. |
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Logistics -- Management.
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Logistics -- Management. |
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Logistics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dumond, John, 1945-
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Arroyo Center. Army Research Division.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Velocity management. Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 2001 0833027735 (DLC) 2001031903 (OCoLC)46937535 |
| ISBN |
0585388776 (electronic book) |
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9780585388779 (electronic book) |
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0833027735 |
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9780833027733 |
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9781598752915 (electronic book) |
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159875291X (electronic book) |
| Report No. |
RAND/MR-1108-A |
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