Integrated logistics encapsulates a multiple of sub-disciplines, of which all need to perform in symphony, to afford customer satisfaction at the lowest cost, bare value to both the business and customer chains by virtue of logistical value propositioning of service and cost minimisation, (Bowersox et al. 2013 p. 30).
Purpose of this paper is to investigate the logistics and integrated flow of products and materials through a select few functions of the Australian Defence Forces (ADF) supply chain. How the flow of items are processed, organised, managed, stored, transported and controlled, whilst in doing so identify any issues that may exist and give opinion or recommendations to better enhance the performance of the integrated logistic pipeline, such as package and handling, transportation and warehousing.
2 Australian Defence Forces- logistics background
Australian Defence Forces (ADF) is a department of the Australian government for the support and protection of Australia and her citizens. As such, it has multiple Business Units (BU’s) that are managed and are self-reliant to perform their tasking and operations. To achieve this all BU’s are supported in their needs and requirements to operate, maintain, perform and deploy effectively by a goliath logistics network that stretches the length and breadth of Australia.
During the 1990’s, there was a drive to amalgamate support to the three services (Army , Navy and Air force) and integrate the supply of goods and services provided. This was to remove the triplicities of replication, by consolidation of assets and shipments thus reducing costs, revision of inventory holdings, reduced operational disruptions thereby adding value to end customers with greater responsiveness, avail...
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...cts all other industries in the economy since all have an aspect of logistics in their operations.
The modernisation of DNSDC is the main concern of present. Modernisation of infra-structure adding greater automation to derive greater logistical value adding of service, responsiveness, availability and operational performance should be considered, and at the very least continued evolvement in processing and passing information, should be the mainstay to exact better performance and quality.
For any organisation to thrive and succeed in this industry, proper integration of logistic facets is inevitable, but only if logically thought through and implemented effectively, will only add value to the change and reduce costs. This is indeed the nature by which Defence strives to improve its methodologies and applications to achieve a fully integrated logistics network.
With different prices and services across the facilities, management is trying to identify opportunities to standardize costs and services across the business units. The goal of this case study is to update Deere and Company’s logistics by recommending solutions to cut logistics cost by 69 million over 3 years
Joint Publication 3.0 Joint Operations, is the provision of logistics and personnel services necessary to maintain and prolong operations through mission accomplishment and redeployment of the force. Joint Publication 4-0 further states, “Effective joint logistics planning identifies future requirements and proposes solutions; it requires joint logisticians to understand the commander’s intent and concept of operations (CONOPS).” Logisticians use seven principles in their planning at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war to ensure operations are logistically supportable and sustainable through the duration of the operations. These principles are survivability, responsiveness, economy, attainabi...
The LAP is designed to improve and sustain the readiness of materiel systems and logistics support. It assists commanders with logistics problems affecting materiel readiness that are beyond their capability or organic resources. The LAP does not relieve the commander of logistics readiness responsibilities. However, The LAP acts as an early detection and resolution mechanism addressing readiness shortfalls and systemic logistics problems. It provides a means to collect, correlate, assess, and disseminate logistics information required to respond to problems from the materiel
JSF F-35 Joint Program Office compiled and analyzed data to determine warehousing capability in the European and Pacific regions. The objective of the second phase of network design is to identify regions where facilities will be located, their potential roles, and their approximate capacity (Chopra & Meindl, 2016). The Joint Program Office determined that the Netherlands and Australia will be the warehouse and distribution centers for the European and Pacific regions (Lockheed Martin,
The Supply Support Activity (SSA), which is the Army’s grass root warehousing facility, is the nuts and bolts that holds together the elite fighting machine we call the United States Army. It is the place where all classes of supply are received, processed and issued to customers, it is also the place where the RL process begins. The Army has recently moved to a new and innovative warehousing platform known as the Global Combat Support System–Army (GCSS-A). GCSS-A is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system powered by SAP. This system integrates financial, maintenance, and warehouse management into one central system, whereas, in previous years these operations were separate, thus creating a disconnect between the systems in many cases.
Our Logistics unit is driving for synergistic growth, developing and securing its links to Container Shipping
Long term sustainment of new technology, especially in the face of rapid technological development, is a question defense contractors must answer prior to fielding. The Defense Acquisition Systems final phase, operation and support, “is considered to
Coyle, J., Langley, C., Gibson, B., Novack, R. and Bardi, E. (2008).Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective. 8th ed. Cengage Learning, p.366.
Organisations that are having a hard time in their logistics functions because of increasing competition in the market, high customer service expectation set by a company’s cooperate strategies has shaped for the requirement of outsourced logistics service. Organisations decide to use 3pl so that they have a wider access to enter new and existing markets expansions, to assess market prospects for production an services, to reduce supply chain costs and have expertise to exploit new trends in developing technological advances in supply chain in supply chain management, the need to know whether their product has competitive advantage. Bolumole (2001).
Peter F. Wanke, Walter Zinn, (2004) "Strategic logistics decision making", International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Vol. 34 Iss: 6, pp.466 – 478
Today’s organizations are faced with increasing levels of global competition, customer’s demanding value for their money and high stakeholders expectations on investment returns. Gattorna (2003), notes that firms are now pursuing supply chain management as a strategy to competitive advantage. Firms in a supply chain relate, transact, and partner on different levels; from product design and development to product delivery. Through supply chain management a firm pursues value creation through timely product delivery, cost management, inventory control and customer service (Beamon, 1999).They do so individually or through synergies formed with other organizations to increase customer service
Logistics forms an important part of the supply chain and involves the planning, implementation, and effective forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from origin to recipient.
Materials and physical distributions looks at grouping logistics into either inbound or outbound. Moving and storing goods brought into the organization (inbound) will require different attention from moving and storing finished goods. Another approach to analyzing logistics systems is to view the various logistical areas as cost centers and then examining to find the lowest cost trade off you can get. The logistics channel considers the network of organizations involved in the flow of goods within the supply chain. Nodes are storage points, assembling facilities or manufacturing sites in an organization. Links shows the transportation networks that links these various nodes in the system. Organizations prefer to use the node and link approach of analysis because it simply illustrates the very complex logistical system. In addition, this system allows you to see where improvements can be made in the
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.
Zanjirani F., Rezapour, S. & Kardar, L. (2011) Logistics operations and management concepts and models, 1st ed. London ; Elsevier.