全球智库信息集成服务系统

Key Findings

• To provide effective overseas support at minimal total cost, the distribution network must integrate theater inventory, airlift, and sealift planning.
• Theater inventory should include items with high recurring demand and low price-to-weight ratios (e.g., track, cans of oil, and construction materiel).
• Optimal implementation of theater inventory would save over $200 million per year, with about three-quarters of a billion in savings already achieved since 2004 through improvements in theater inventory.