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Economic Tradeoffs of Substituting Transportation for Inventory in the Department of Defense: A Case Study of Pipeline Reduction

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dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Hugh Donen
dc.contributor.committeechairWaud, Roger N.en
dc.contributor.committeememberLutton, Thomas J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberReid, Brian K.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWentzler, Nancy A.en
dc.contributor.departmentEconomicsen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:51:02Zen
dc.date.adate1998-03-19en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:51:02Zen
dc.date.issued1997-02-06en
dc.date.rdate1998-03-19en
dc.date.sdate1997-02-06en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis identifies the potential net economic gains from substituting less costly transit for relatively costly parts inventory through pipeline reduction. The analysis considers long run steady state economic implications of adjusting the current mix of inventory investments and transportation expenses. The scope of the analysis is focused on a case study of Department of Defense (DoD) parts inventories within the US. The inventory scope is limited to high cost low priority, non-mission critical, replenishment parts (engines, electronics, assemblies and components, etc.). The study uses baseline data collected over 9 months from over 200 inventory sites on thousands of parts. Pipeline reductions are achieved by replacing the current 6 day transit time with a conservative 3 day commercial carrier (e.g., UPS, DHL, Emory Air, etc.). Warehouses in the case study automatically lower inventory levels in response to lowered transit times to prevent inventory buildup. These lower inventory levels will generate reductions in inventory investment and associated holding costs. The reductions in these inventory costs are compared to the increases in transportation expenses to generate benefit to cost ratios.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-21398-20285en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-21398-20285/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/36540en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartThesis_Taylor.PDFen
dc.relation.haspartVita_Taylor.PDFen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectTransportationen
dc.subjectInventoryen
dc.subjectTradeoffen
dc.subjectSimulationen
dc.titleEconomic Tradeoffs of Substituting Transportation for Inventory in the Department of Defense: A Case Study of Pipeline Reductionen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineEconomicsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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