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This 4 page paper discusses the way in which the U.S. Army warehouses its resources and suggests several methods for improving the process. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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does so efficiently. Discussion This is something of an odd prompt, because strictly speaking the Army has no product; none of the armed forces do. They do not manufacture anything,
they provide a service: national security. So to speak of warehousing Army "products" is meaningless. The Army does, however, have a vast range of resources it has to warehouse: everything
it needs to equip, dress, feed and care for its soldiers. This can be everything from combat rations to medical supplies to ammunition to tanks and trucks. It all has
to be available, in good working order, very quickly. The armed forces have over 200 years tradition behind them, so change is difficult to accept or implement, even when its
obviously necessary. For years, NCOs and Chiefs joked about having a stockpile of "shop spares"-meaning that they had extra parts and/or equipment that they could cannibalize if the parts they
needed didnt get there in time. They took a certain pride in being able to "make do" but their ingenuity while amusing is not an efficient way to run things.
There was a name for this practice of stockpiling things "just in case" they were needed later: "Iron mountain." The practice of stockpiling meant that the Army "kept vast
quantities of supplies, such as spare parts, ammunition, vehicles, and medicine, on hand just in case they were needed" (Willis, 2008). Using this system meant that the Army had to
have enormous storage facilities and "thousands of warehouse personnel to manage the stockpiles" (Willis, 2008). When units deployed, they had to carry "large stocks of common replacement parts (such as
tires) with them," which often slowed them down; this is risky when a situation is developing as rapidly and fluidly as it can on the battlefield (Willis, 2008). Even worse,
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