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Commercial Logistics vs. Military Logistics
2012Military logistics originated from the military’s need to make provisions of arms, ammunition, and ration as they moved forward from their bases. Military operations and maintenance have made a significant contribution towards developing logistics in the initial stage as compared to other business sectors. Though logistics originated and developed from
Siva Kumar, Aaron Chia
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Military Logistics: Insights for Business Logistics
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 1992During the last 30 years the environments faced by the business logistics manager have dramatically increased in complexity. The integration of logistics processes with organizational strategy, increasing complexities of partnership/channel relationships, and the increasingly international scope of business logistics processes are examples of these ...
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Logistics evolution: a comparison of military and commercial logistics thought
The International Journal of Logistics Management, 2012PurposeThis paper aims to look at the relative position of thought leadership between the areas of military and civilian logisticians.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides a theoretical framework in an exploratory study using the literature to evaluate the constraints on the military side of logistics thought.FindingsThe discussion identifies ...
Stephen M. Rutner +2 more
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Military logistics' innovative role
International Journal of Physical Distribution, 1972A brief look at some of the commercial applications of methods first developed in military logistics which are now gaining universal ...
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Collaborative Logistics on the Military Flightline
International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'06), 2006This paper discusses field experiments in the Air Force Research Laboratorys ongoing Smart Systems for Logistics Command and Control (SSLC2) research program. Spiral 1 of this program included four field experiments conducted in the spring of 2005 at Air Force Reserve/Air National Guard bases in Indiana and Ohio.
P. Faas +6 more
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Logistics Standardization in Civil-military Integration
2020 The 11th International Conference on E-business, Management and Economics, 2020This paper describes the definition of civil-military integration, significance of logistics to the work of the whole army and important role of standardization in logistics work, puts forward the content of logistics standardization civil-military integration, including organization management system integration, technical integration and important ...
Jing Li, Hanfang Hou, Chunyan Wang
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Exoskeletons for Military Logistics and Maintenance
2021Field studies were performed at various logistics and maintenance facilities of the German armed forces, with the aim to develop a set of design requirements for novel exoskeletons in military logistics applications. This led to an improved understanding of common logistics tasks and a list of design requirements including main and secondary activities,
Mona Hichert +5 more
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Military Logistics and Supply Chains
2009The military activity known as logistics probably is as old as war itself. In the 12 early history of man when the first wars were fought, each man had to find his own 13 food, stones, and knotted clubs. Each warrior was his own logistician. Not until 14 later, when fighters joined as groups and fighting groups became larger, was there 15 any basis for
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