Best Practices in Supplier Relationship Management and Their Early Implementation in the Air Force Materiel Command

Mary E. Chenoweth ; Nancy Y. Moore ; Amy G. Cox ; Judith D. Mele ; Jerry M. Sollinger

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: Military Logistics;    Military Budgets and Defense Spending;    Supply Chain Management;   

ISBN  :  9780833051448
RP-ID  :  TR904

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

The U.S. Air Force is under pressure to reduce the costs of its logistics operations while simultaneously improving their performance. More than 40 percent of the total Air Force budget goes toward purchases from the private sector, so any efforts to generate significant savings must target purchases from the private sector. Since 2002, the Air Force has had a program called Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) within the Air Force Materiel Command that has the goal of reducing the cost and improving the quality and performance of purchased goods and services by carefully managing relations with suppliers to the mutual advantage of each. Commercial firms have benefited from SRM for some time, but the scope and pace of the savings generated by the Air Force SRM program have been less than anticipated by senior leaders. This report reviews the literature on best practices in SRM; assesses how the Air Force has implemented SRM, including an analysis of annual spending with key SRM contractors as well as interviews with Air Force personnel; and recommends actions, based on lessons from private-sector firms, that the Air Force could take to improve its implementation of SRM.