Limitations of Military Supply Chain
Unlike standard Supply chain management practices world-wide, some major concepts are not supported in the military domain. For example, the Just-in-time (business) or JIT model emphasizes holding less (or no) inventory, whereas Military supply chains, due to the high costs of a stock-out (potentially placing lives in danger), keeping huge inventory is a more acceptable practice. Some examples of these are the Ammunition dump and Oil depot.
Likewise Procurement process in military have much different criteria than the normal procurement process. Where focus is more in reliability of vendor during peace and war as compare to price and technology factor.
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