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This text recounts a study organized as part of an effort to design a particular kind of training for the ""Theater Support Command"" - a US Army organization. The main goal was to teach participants the effects in distribution and time of their decisions using microworld-based training.
United States. --- Procurement --- Mathematical models. --- Management --- Study and teaching. --- Computer simulation.
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As the Army has implemented initiatives to improve its basic logistics processes, it has found that these processes are hampered by a financial management system that is slow and inaccurate and that creates errors and delays. This report documents analysis supporting the Army's effort to improve its logistics financial management (FM) processes using Velocity Management's Define-Measure-Improve methodology. In defining the FM process, researchers developed process maps that showed that the delivery of conflicting information from the supply and finance systems forces units to create time-consuming, manual reconciliation processes to determine their remaining budgets. Researchers identified metrics to measure performance: quality of price and credit information and financial wait time--the time it takes for a supply transaction to be closed out in the financial system. To improve the quality of price and credit information and eliminate the need for manual reconciliation, the researchers recommended that the prices and credits in place when a transaction is first undertaken should be the prices and credits that are used for all records of the transaction.
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The Army is in essence reengineering itself under the auspices of Force XXI, and at the same time it is evolving into a "force projection Army." Such changes place increasing importance on effective combat service support (CSS) command and control (C2). These challenges and changes to CSS management will occur in an increasingly information-rich and distributed environment. Earlier aspects of this research reported on the opportunity to reexamine training for support staffs above the division level and determine how the Army might change its training to best prepare for new styles of CSS management. This documented briefing illustrates a microworld simulation modeling approach that can help to facilitate changes in structure and content for training CSS staffs operating as staffs, not for individual training. The authors discuss how microworld models can be used to train CSS processes. Included in the discussion is an overview of how these models operate and what the prototypes are intended to illustrate in a training curriculum. The briefing concludes with some general lessons learned from developing and testing these prototype models with an actual training audience, and the authors suggest how training developers may proceed to redesign mission training plans for higher-level theater CSS C2 staffs.
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This report summarizes and extends RAND research on process-oriented training for Army combat service support (CSS) command and control (C2) using microworld models. To assess learning outcomes, a model can be devised that uses a multidimensional, objective approach and includes cognitive, skill-based, and affective measures.
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A discussion of how prices and credits for spare parts affect the behaviour of logistics customers and suppliers. It explores how they could be modified to improve the performance of the US Army logistics system as a whole.
Spare parts --- Prices --- United States. --- Supplies and stores --- Prices.
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