Estimating The Benefits Of The Air Force Purchasing And Supply Chain Management Initiative

Author : Jeremy Arkes
Publisher : RAND Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book Estimating the Benefits of the Air Force Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Initiative written by Jeremy Arkes and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However, the model may be useful both with other factors and for estimating the benefits of other initiatives."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Nancy Y. Moore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using a Spend Analysis to Help Identify Prospective Air Force Purchasing and Supply Initiatives written by Nancy Y. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This briefing summarizes research on how the Air Force might use an analysis of its spending to develop better supply strategies, improve its relationships with suppliers, and better manage its supply base. Best practices offer many ways by which the Air Force can improve performance and save money. Such techniques include consolidating multiple contracts with existing providers, selecting the best providers and offering them longer contracts with broader scopes of goods and services, and working with selected strategic partners to improve quality, responsiveness, reliability, and cost. There are many challenges to conducting an Air Force-wide spend analysis, primarily the lack of detailed, centralized data on all expenditures as well as questions about data quality for those data that are available. Nevertheless, the data that do exist point to many prospective sources of savings and performance improvements. The authors analyze the most complete centralized source available on Air Force expenditures, known as DD350 data. Transactions in the DD350 data constitute 96 percent of all Air Force contract dollars spent directly. Among the actions that the Air Force might wish to take are: consolidation of a large number of contracts with similar or the same supplier; grouping contractor ID codes having multiple contracts with the Air Force and many purchase office codes associated with the same contractor, so that the Air Force does not have to pay for the contractor's repetitive bidding and contract administration costs; examining contracts for goods or services available from only one supplier, which gives the Air Force only limited opportunities to gain leverage over such suppliers. Conducting a detailed Air Force spend analysis would require information on the needs, preferences, and priorities of commodity users not available in the DD350 data. Because the Air Force needs to balance prospective savings, performance improvements, risks, socioeconomic and other goals, and other regulations not always present in the private sector, not all best commercial practices may be appropriate for it.

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Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using a Spend Analysis to Help Identify Prospective Air Force Purchasing and Supply Management Initiatives. Summary of Selected Findings written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best purchasing and supply management (PSM) practices as identified by academic and business literature and professional organizations offer many ways by which the Air Force can improve performance and save money by improving the management of existing resources, thereby freeing funds for other priorities. Such techniques include consolidating multiple contracts, particularly sole-source contracts, with existing providers, selecting the best providers and offering them longer contracts with broader scopes of goods and services, and working with selected strategic partners to improve quality, responsiveness, reliability, and cost. Because of the success that leading commercial firms have had improving their purchasing and supply management, the Air Force asked RAND to help it identify opportunities to apply best PSM practices. A first step toward knowing which PSM practices to use in any particular purchasing situation is to conduct a spend analysis, or an analysis of expenditures along dimensions such as type of commodity or service and suppliers, numbers of contracts and expenditures, and other variables showing how current money is spent on goods and services. Private firms place high importance on such analyses; 80 percent of supply chain executives in a recent survey view a spend analysis as very important or critical to the success of their enterprise (Aberdeen, 2002). A spend analysis can help enterprises improve their purchasing practices in the areas where they are likely to produce the greatest benefit. This documented briefing summarizes a high-level analysis of Air Force spending and suggests some activities the Air Force may wish to review, revise, or improve in its purchasing and supply management. There are many challenges to conducting an Air Force wide spend analysis, primarily the lack of detailed, centralized data on all expenditures as well as questions about data quality for those data that are available.

Author : Mary E. Chenoweth
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833038893
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The F100 Engine Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Demonstration written by Mary E. Chenoweth and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors describe spend analyses they conducted in 2002 for the first phase of a purchasing and supply management demonstration at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center for of F100 jet engine spares and repair services and jet engine bearings. The authors detail required data and processes for a spend analysis and discuss the implications of their findings for F100 purchasing and supply-chain management for future spend analyses.

Author : Nancy Y. Moore
Publisher : RAND Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Implementing Best Purchasing and Supply Management Practices written by Nancy Y. Moore and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the U.S. Air Force spends over one-third of its budget on nonweapons purchased goods and services, such purchases are a prime target area in which to seek performance improvements and cost savings. Prompted by a need for improved performance from its supply base, the Air Force has become increasingly aware of the advantages of using market research, contract consolidation, supply base rationalization, and other leading purchasing and supply management (PSM) practices in its dealings with suppliers. To aid the Air Force in its PSM efforts, RAND examined how innovative commercial firms implement such practices in their purchases of goods and services. After a review of the academic and trade literature, the study team conducted a series of elite interviews using a structured questionnaire to gather primary data from "best in class" commercial firms. The key findings are that (1) innovative commercial firms are moving to a strategic, goal-oriented approach to PSM, (2) implementing new PSM practices can take a number of years and often requires significant, permanent change throughout the organization, and (3) the Air Force needs strategies to sustain continuity of support for serious PSM change from one leadership team to the next.

Author : Mary E. Chenoweth
Publisher : RAND Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Practices in Developing Proactive Supply Strategies for Air Force Low-demand Service Parts written by Mary E. Chenoweth and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors review Air Force purchases of "low-demand" parts, analyzing how much the Air Force spends on such parts and the types of parts that have a low demand. They then identify and synthesize best commercial purchasing and supply chain management practices used for developing supply strategies for such items, concluding with recommendations for the Air Force to improve its supply strategies for such items.

Author : Nancy Y. Moore
Publisher : RAND Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Implementing Best Purchasing and Supply Management Practices written by Nancy Y. Moore and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the U.S. Air Force spends over one-third of its budget on nonweapons purchased goods and services, such purchases are a prime target area in which to seek performance improvements and cost savings. Prompted by a need for improved performance from its supply base, the Air Force has become increasingly aware of the advantages of using market research, contract consolidation, supply base rationalization, and other leading purchasing and supply management (PSM) practices in its dealings with suppliers. To aid the Air Force in its PSM efforts, RAND examined how innovative commercial firms implement such practices in their purchases of goods and services. After a review of the academic and trade literature, the study team conducted a series of elite interviews using a structured questionnaire to gather primary data from "best in class" commercial firms. The key findings are that (1) innovative commercial firms are moving to a strategic, goal-oriented approach to PSM, (2) implementing new PSM practices can take a number of years and often requires significant, permanent change throughout the organization, and (3) the Air Force needs strategies to sustain continuity of support for serious PSM change from one leadership team to the next.

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Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Implementing Best Purchasing and Supply Management Practices. Lessons from Innovative Commercial Firms written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force is under pressure to maintain or improve performance while reducing costs so that it can pay for new weapon system

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Force Journal of Logistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428991069
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Air Force journal of logistics: vol26_no2 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: