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Worldwide Warehouse: A Customer Perspective, Hugo A. Quintero, Carlos A. Valadares Sep 1994

Worldwide Warehouse: A Customer Perspective, Hugo A. Quintero, Carlos A. Valadares

Theses and Dissertations

Under a global climate of increasing economic difficulties and declining defense budget, every opportunity for better use of available resources must be explored. The Worldwide Warehouse WWW Program is being developed as a solution for the excess inventory problem experienced by the Foreign Military Sales FMS countries. The rationale behind the program includes the idea of releasing resources tied to inactive inventory so those resources can be used to improve support and readiness of active inventory. The purpose of this study us to determine to what extent the WWW Program, as initially defined, is perceived by its intended customer the …


The Effect Of Delivery Windows On The Variance Of Flow Time And On-Time Delivery, John R. Grout Jan 1994

The Effect Of Delivery Windows On The Variance Of Flow Time And On-Time Delivery, John R. Grout

Historical Working Papers

Delivery windows are mathematically modeled in order to ascertain the effect that may be obtained in improving on time delivery, inventory reduction, and steady flow times. Outcomes suggest that it is not possible to improve flow times but not to improve on time delivery or inventory reduction.