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Defence Logistics

Name: Defence Logistics
Author: Jeremy Smith, Jeremy Smith

Enabling and Sustaining Successful Military Operations

Jeremy Smith, Jeremy Smith

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Defence Logistics

Enabling and Sustaining Successful Military Operations

Jeremy Smith, Jeremy Smith

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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.

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Publisher

Kogan Page

Year

2018

ISBN

9780749478049

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Topic

Business

Subtopic

Gestione della catena di fornitura

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Business

INDEX

Italics denote a figure or table.

ABC inventory classification 260

ABCA Armies Program 12

Able Archer 60

absorption capacity 96–97, 104, 105, 109–10

acceptance, and offer (contract) 207

accounting 267–85

accounting information 268–74

accruals-based accounting 272–74, 283–84

achieved availability 165–67, 172, 178

‘Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of Peace and Acts of Aggression’ (UN) 13

activity-based planning 253–54, 263

activity-cycle diagrams 317

activity diagrams 317

ACTO items 89

adaptive capacity 97, 104, 105, 110–11

additive manufacturing technology 102, 361

administrative and logistic delay (ALDT) 168, 170–72, 178

Afghanistan 16, 70, 75, 196, 231, 334, 340

agility 22, 68, 73, 255, 263–64, 273, 354, 360, 361

aid agencies 331, 333, 334, 335, 338, 340–41

air forces 13, 20–21, 22, 23, 31, 69, 75, 115–16

aircraft maintenance schedules 130

airlifts 60, 332, 354

ALDT 168, 170–72, 178

Alexander the Great 37–39

Alexius, Empe...