Military_supply_chain_management

Military supply chain management is a cross-functional approach to procuring, producing and delivering products and services. The broad management scope includes sub-suppliers, suppliers, internal information and funds flow.DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms – Supply Chain Management

Supply

A supply is the procurement, distribution, maintenance while in storage and salvage of supplies, including the determination of kind and quantity of supplies. The producer phase of a military supply extends from determination of procurement schedules to acceptance of finished supplies by the military services. The consumer phase of a military supply extends from receipt of finished supplies by the military services through issue for use or consumption.DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms – Supply

Supply chain

The supply chain is the linked activities associated with providing material from a raw material stage to an end user as a finished good.DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms - Supply Chain Supply control is the process by which an item of supply is controlled within the supply system, including requisitioning, receipt, storage, stock control, shipment, disposition, identification, and accounting.DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms - Supply Control The supply point is a location where supplies, services and materiels are located and issued. These locations are temporary and mobile, normally being occupied for up to 72 hours.DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms - Supply Point

Logistics

Main article: Military logistics

Military logistics is the science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of armed forces. In its most comprehensive sense, those aspects of military operations that deal with: a. design and development, acquisition, storage, movement, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of materiel; b. movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel; acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation and disposition of facilities; and acquisition or furnishing of services. DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms - Logistics

See also

• Ammunition dump
• Distance in military affairs
• Supply chain management

Notes

External links

• Department of Defense - Supply Chain Management Regulation

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