Inventory management gears for process improvements

Maximizing weapons system availability and performance means smart management of safety levels and inventories. To do this, Air Force officials strive to optimize inventory levels and cost without sacrificing support to the warfighting commanders.

"Based upon the fact that we are maintaining systems that have exceeded their expected lifetime, in harsh environmental conditions and at extraordinary operational rates, materiel management has become increasingly complex," said Major General Gary McCoy, Air Force logistics readiness director. "If you add to that the long lead times it often takes to get parts, the diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages and the governmental funding cycles, the difficult task of accurately forecasting demand is essential.”

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