The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is the Department of Defense's combat logistics support agency. DLA provides the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, other federal agencies and partner nation armed forces with a full spectrum of logistics, acquisition and technical services. DLA sources and provides nearly all the consumable items America’s military forces need to operate – from food, fuel and energy to uniforms, medical supplies and construction material. DLA also supplies nearly 86 percent of the military’s spare parts and 100 percent of fuel and troop support consumables, manages the reutilization of military equipment, provides catalogs and other logistics information products, and offers document automation and production services to …show more content…
The statistical inferences I have observed are mostly in one dimension. The use of Dash Boards (unfulfilled orders, open tickets, etc.) the creation of Fusion Center used in many occasions as past performance but not to try to anticipate future behaviors or to capture changes in demand on the spot. The spreadsheets, and graphs that are displayed are at most per supply chain and not as a metric compared to the standard metrics decided by senior leadership. The intention of senior leadership is to go in the direction of enterprise analytics but I see it is relatively in its …show more content…
They want it but are not sure they can afford the resources and the time it will take to get there. Now being honest, I need to clarify that there are two types of leaderships that permeate DLA Troop Support. The military and the civilian. Both have two distinctive cultures which impacts each other in objectives and time frames. Both have a different career path. The military changes every two years or less. The civilians are for the long run if they don’t jump into a different agency or go to the private sector. If a Military leader requests something that the civilian leadership disagrees with, they will simply drag their feet until he/she leaves. If the civilian leadership proposes something that will require too much time, the military would block it because he/she needs to get something done faster. Let us not forget that DLA Troop Support is also influenced by Head Quarters leadership and a series of events that on most of the cases are unpredictable and which require immediate response such as natural disasters (Ebola, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, droughts, etc.) military activities aftermaths such as Sirias refugee camps, Libya, etc. Therefore, I keep my position that the intention and desire is there but too many distractions are in
Background: In 2003, the Army published its guidance on the implementation of the principles of Mission Command (MC); the leadership philosophy adopted by the Army. The ideals and principles were discussed and implemented throughout the Army over the course of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom and are still being implemented in Operation Inherent Resolve. In 2012, the Army published updated doctrine to further explain and codify the principles of MC in ADP 6-0. The Army War College developed the Key Strategic Issues List for 2015-1016 and asked students in the FA49 ORSA Q-Course to identify one key strategic initiative and draft a white paper to discuss it. This white paper will discuss issue #7: "What cultural changes are needed in the Army for it to meet future challenges while embracing" MC? In this white paper, I will discuss what embedding and reinforcing mechanisms the Army senior leaders need to put into place to change the culture.
The DIA started in 1958. The organizational structure of the DoD and U.S. foreign intelligence came to a new shape with the establishment of DIA. It was Robert McNamara, then Secretary of Defense, who came up with the concept of DIA in 1961. DIA gathers human source intelligence, analyzes technical intelligence, distributes intelligence/reports to the intelligence agencies, provides advice and support to the Joint Chiefs of Staff with foreign military intelligence, and provides military intelligence to combatant commands as its operational functions. A DIA director is supposed to be a three-star military general and DIA is believed to have employed at least 7,500 staff worldwide today. The DIA is a defense intelligence agency that prevents strategic surprises and delivers a decision advantage to warfighters, defense planners, and to policymakers. This paper will try to evaluate DIA’s role in US national security in present condition of massive budget deficits and increased congressional oversight, plus the intelligence capabilities of the Regional Combatant Commanders and the individual services like CIA and NSA.
The forces still have difficulty funding and presenting capable forces for specific skillsets within the
The DEA’s enforcement of regulatory policies against the Drug Industry and the deregulation in the story is a great example of an Iron Triangle relationship. The issue begins with the DEA’s chief of enforcing regulation policies, Mr. Joseph Rannazzisi. Mr. Rannazzisi was aggressively enforcing regulatory laws against the Drug Industry. The Drug Industry felt that the law was too vague and lacked a burden of proof. The law allowed the DEA to shutdown/fine any pharmaceutical company if it was caught supplying too many opioids into the public. Over the years, the Drug Industry recruited many of the members who once worked for the DEA and Justice Department. At least 56 people from these agencies shifted into the Drug Industry much like the
The company I decided to do my course project on was Fed-Ex. This corporation was incorporated on October 2, 1997. Fed-Ex provides many services such as, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight and FedEx services. FedEx Express offers a certain time of delivery within one-three business days. However, FedEx ground focuses on residential and business deliveries with packages weighing up to 150 pounds. Furthermore, FedEx Freight provides service to virtually all United States ZIP Codes (including Alaska and Hawaii). And finally, FedEx Services provides other companies with many sales, markets, informational technology and customer service. FedEx has ben providing their employees with many benefits until the economy went into recession. FedEx became the latest company in 2008 to announce their cut back on employees 401k in order for the company to save money. FedEx announced that employees will be taking a 5 percent pay cut and their top manager will be receiving a 7.5-20 percent pay cut, with no pay raises for the following year. Through this tragic decision that FedEx Corporation has imposed on their workers they are saving approximately $200 million through their remainder fiscal year and approximately $600 million in the following year. Workers were very upset about these decisions because they were not notified first. FedEx is committed to providing outstanding customer experience, to being a great place to work, a thoughtful steward of the environment and a caring citizen in the communities where we live and work. At FedEx, we are passionate about sustainably connecting people and places and improving the quality of life around the world.
Federal Express main products are delivering packages to widespread locations within a short time. In this case study, we would focus our discussion on its most profitable services, i.e. Priority One, Standard Air Service, and Courier Pak (Table 1).
This method is something that many organizations are relying upon today. In fact, well over 30% of organizations state that they rely on data analysis for the majority of their marketing
Data Envelopment Analysis calculates the best-practice frontier for a given sample using piecewise linear programming. It then indicates the relative inefficiency of other units by measuring the distance between these units and the best practice frontier. These models can be input oriented (seeking to minimize inputs while retaining a constant output) or output oriented (seeking to maximize outputs while holding inputs constant). In this instance outputs would be factors indicating general wellbeing, while inputs would be the resources available to the state. One advantage to this approach is that it is highly modular and flexible for use with multi-output and multi-input treatments. Additionally, DEA can be extended to construct dynamic indices by use of the Malmquist Index technique. However use of this technique depends upon access on an inclusive set ‘output’ and ‘input’ variables necessary to model the relevant technology.
The United Parcel Service is a global leader in shipping and logistics. UPS was founded in 1907 as the American Messenger Company with a value proposition that still holds true today: best service and lowest rates (UPS History, 2014). After rapid growth and mergers with competition, the company became the United Parcel Service in 1919. Throughout the next decades they continued to broaden their services and horizons. In 1953 they started offering two-day air service to major cities in the United States (UPS History, 2014). Another notable event occurred in 1975 when they obtained authorization to ship freely in all 48 contiguous states. Prior to this, some packages had to be transferred between several carriers before reaching their final destination. (UPS History, 2014) This undoubtedly created challenges in their operations and supply chain. Their ability to overcome this issue is just one example of their determination to be the best shipping company. To compete with some of its largest competitors, UPS started their Next-Day-Air service in 1982. In the late 1980s, they streamlined their air services with the creation of UPS Airlines. This has been an important component of their supply chain, especially with the use of the Computerized Operations Monitoring, Planning and Scheduling System (COMPASS). (UPS History, 2014) During the 1980s UPS also expanded their international services. The 1990s saw more advances in technology as well as services. UPS realized that they were in a strategic position to offer supply chain solutions. The UPS Logistics Group was formed in 1995 with the purpose of providing global supply chain management solutions and consulting services (UPS History, 2014). Over the last decade, UPS has continued to ...
First of all, business intelligence analysis requires the capturing of information and storing in a single location for effective data analysis. Currently, data analysis is supported by transactional systems, business specific data marts, and other ad-hoc processes. Information is distributed making it difficult and time-consuming to access. Business teams have adapted to this environment by creating user maintained databases and manual “work-arounds” to support new types of reporting and analysis. This has resulted in inconsistent data, redundant data storage, significant resource use for maintenance, and inefficient response to changing business needs.
Daniel Terris, chief of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University, has given a fascinating portrayal and evaluation of a morals program at one of the world 's biggest protection temporary workers, Lockheed Martin. In 1996, another system that depended on a prepackaged game (much like Clue) that utilized characters from the Dilbert funny cartoon was presented. Terris respects much about this system, which was initiated by Lockheed 's CEO, Norm Augustine-even while he brings up that the putting of obligation on every specialist for the right measurements of his or her activities may occupy consideration from the ostensibly more vital moral obligations of senior administration and the ethical complexities of aggregate choice making. As it were, that affected individual, the organization itself, have its obligations to people, in general, great, despite the fact that it will be unable to appreciate the efforts of other individuals who plays their business activities in a righ way. (Terris, 2005)
In logistic industry, they have been through lots of challenge in worldwide market. As the containerization of the global economy scopes, a phase of development and explanation, ports find themselves inserted in ever changing commercial environment where logistics is the forefront. Thus, this industry reaches a phase of maturity and rationalization due to the process of logistic on land.
Coolcargo and Frito-Lay implemented technical solutions for agricultural-products transportation following customers’ requirements. Coolcargo developed a transport-system for maintain fresh asparagus at controlled temperature from production site in Thailand to final destination in UK (UOL, 2013). Frito-Lay developed a global agile supply-chain for manufacturing and distributing salty-snacks to end-customers that allows processing agricultural-products in less than 24 hours for flavor guarantee (PepsiCo, 2013).
Logistics is the designing and managing of a system in order to control the flow of material throughout a corporation. This is a very important part of an international company because of geographical barriers. Logistics of an international company includes movement of raw materials, coordinating flows into and out of different countries, choices of transportation, cost of the transportation, packaging the product for shipment, storing the product, and managing the entire process. The concept of logistics is fairly new in the business world. The theoretical development was not used until 1966. Since then, many business practices have evolved and logistics currently costs between 10 and 25 percent of the total cost of an international purchase.