Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- Defining Supply Chain Management and Integration -- Achieving Supply Chain Integration -- CHAPTER TWO Case Studies That Illustrate the Need for Supply Chain Integration and Systems Thinking -- Theater Inventory Case Study -- Supply Chain Silo Case Study -- The Need for Systems Thinking -- CHAPTER THREE Policy Review -- CHAPTER FOUR High-Level Policy Recommendations -- The Supply Chain Objective -- Guiding Principles -- A DoD Supply Chain Supply Structure or Framework -- The End Users of Materiel -- Retail/Tactical Warehouses/Distribution Centers-The Wholesale Customers -- DoD Distribution Network -- Distribution Modal Choice for Shipments to OCONUS Customers -- Distribution Modal Choice Within CONUS -- Transportation Management, Assets, and Facilities -- Non-Stocked Items -- Purchasing and Supply Organizations -- Factories and Maintenance Facilities -- The Overall Supply Chain Structure -- CHAPTER FIVE Enabling Mechanisms -- Incentives: Metrics and Budgets -- Decision Authority and/or Rights -- Financial Controls, Methods, and Budgets -- Information Sharing -- Decision Support Tools -- Workforce Knowledge -- Principles for Enabling Mechanisms -- CHAPTER SIX Supplier and Inventory Management Integration -- Where Is the Money? -- The Drivers of Inventory Costs -- DoD Lead Times and Order Quantities -- The Impact of Lead-Time Induced Forecast Errors -- Reparable Inventory -- CHAPTER SEVEN Scheduled Trucks-Apply a Systems View for Shipment Consolidation -- CHAPTER EIGHT Integrating Supplier and Transportation Management -- CHAPTER NINE Positioning Materiel Based on Total Costs -- Stock Transport Orders -- Improving STO Business Logic -- Stockage Location and Replenishment Source Decisions.

CHAPTER TEN Integrating Financial Policy with Network Design and Inventory Planning -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Conclusions and Overall Recommendations -- APPENDIX -- A. Legal and Regulatory Environment for FDT Alternatives -- B. Inventory Performance Analysis -- References.