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Title

Velocity management : the business paradigm that has transformed U.S. Army logistics / John Dumond [and others].

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Dumond, John, 1945-
• United States. Army.
• Rand Corporation.
• Arroyo Center.

Description

xxi, 68 p. : col. ill.; 26 cm.

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.

Series Statement

MR/Rand Corporation ; MR-1108-A

Subject

• United States. Army > Procurement
• United States. Army > Supplies and stores
• United States. Army > Management
• United States. Army
• Logistics > Management
• Army
• Management
• Transportation
• Logistics
• Logistics management
• Armed Forces > Management
• Armed Forces > Procurement
• Armed Forces > Supplies and stores

Note

• "Prepared for the United States Army."
• "Arroyd Center."
• "MR-1108"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64).

Contents

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 Initiative -- 6. Coda: Velocity Management and the Transformation of the Army.

ISBN

• 0585388776
• 9780585388779
• 0833027735
• 9780833027733

LCCN

2001031903

OCLC

• ocm46937535
• 46937535
• SCSB-1227954

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library