Defence Logistics: Enabling and Sustaining Successful Military - Operations

The management of logistics and supply chain operations is of vital importance in the defence sector.

Defence Logistics looks at established theories and their practical utility, providing insights into current thinking for postgraduate and undergraduate students, lecturers, researchers, practitioners and professionals through real-life case studies.

Defence Logistics focuses on key areas of logistics and supply chain management in context, such as sustainability, inventory management, resilience, procurement, information systems and crisis response. This comprehensive and up-to-the-minute collection includes contributions from international academics from a range of universities, academies and defence schools, along with practitioners who are currently working in the field of defence logistics.

List of contents

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction;
  • Chapter - 01: Defence logistics definitions and frameworks;
  • Chapter - 02: Defence logistics - an historical perspective;
  • Chapter - 03: Defence logistics in context;
  • Chapter - 04: Resilience in defence supply chains;
  • Chapter - 05: Integrating mission and support systems through the life cycle - Integrated logistics support and maintenance strategies;
  • Chapter - 06: Supportability analysis for supportable and supported mission systems;
  • Chapter - 07: Achieving dependability in defence systems;
  • Chapter - 08: Planning and executing defence operational logistics;
  • Chapter - 09: Procurement for defence logistics support;
  • Chapter - 10: Managing performance in defence logistics;
  • Chapter - 11: Optimizing the defence inventory;
  • Chapter - 12: Accounting and finance in defence logistics;
  • Chapter - 13: Decision support in defence logistics;
  • Chapter - 14: Defence logistics and crisis response;
  • Chapter - 15: Defence logistics information systems;
  • Chapter - 16: A look to the future;

About the author

Jeremy Smith

Summary

Understand how key theories of logistics and supply chain management can be applied in a defence context.

Foreword

Includes coverage of recent developments and technologies affecting defence logistics, such as 3D printing and issues such as obsolescence, counterfeiting and sustainability

Report

"This book offers a great academic view of how defence logisticians can get ahead of the game before weapons are deployed, let alone the first shots fired. It pulls together many of the underlying principles in an easily digestible format. I wish I could have had the benefit of this compendium before I deployed to Iraq to help me understand how we should have done it better!" Group Captain (Rtd) Chris Markey FCMI FCILT, Chariman of the Defence Forum for the CILT, UK, and Deputy Commander Joint Force Logistics Component Operation TELIC I and II 2003, UK

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Smith, Jeremy C Smith, Jeremy C. Smith, Stuart Young
• Assisted by: Jeremy Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780749478032
• ISBN: 978-0-7494-7803-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; TRANSPORTATION / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Purchasing & Buying, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Distribution, Purchasing & supply management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Logistics & Supply Chain, Distribution & warehousing management, Distribution and logistics management, Purchasing and supply management