Accession Number:

AD0692703

Title:

ALTERNATIVE MEASURES OF SUPPLY PERFORMANCE: FILLS, BACKORDERS, OPERATIONAL RATE, AND NORS

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA

Personal Author(s):

• Brooks, Robin B.
• Gillen, Colleen A.
• Lu, John Y.

Report Date:

1969-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

63.0

Abstract:

Description is given of a measure of support effectiveness that appears to be an improved predictor of the expected number of NORS Not Operationally Ready--Supply aircraft. The NORS criterion brings the performance measure for base supply closer to the measure for base operations but, since it is not a separable function, item-by-item optimization with a cost constraint represented by a Lagrange multiplier is not feasible. The theorem developed in this study shows how a separable function can be optimized instead of a nonseparable function. The algorithm based on this theorem seems to have worked well.

Descriptors:

• *AIR FORCE
• *INVENTORY
• AIRCRAFT
• ALGORITHMS
• INVENTORY CONTROL
• LOGISTICS
• MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING
• MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION
• NUMERICAL METHODS AND PROCEDURES
• OPTIMIZATION
• SPARE PARTS

Subject Categories:

• Logistics, Military Facilities and Supplies

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE