Anticipatory Logistics

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This paper explains that anticipatory logistics are used to predict what a customer is going to need and to prioritize these needs so that a certain level of product or other needed item can be maintained. The Army uses anticipatory logistics to manage effectively their supply chains for ammunition, maintenance, and some of their petroleum and oil needs. The author points out that, for the military, the deployment of forces, the joint interoperability which takes place between the command, computer, intelligence, control, and communications systems, and the current mission and soldier requirements, affect the supply chain. This paper concludes that, because supply chain management works so well for the military, it is only logical that the anticipatory logistics in a modified form, would work well for the corporate world, with some small changes to focus on profit instead of mission completion.

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"To understand more about anticipatory logistics, it is important to understand supply chain management. The supply chain involves how things get from the manufacturer to the end user, but it also involves how the raw materials that are needed in manufacturing get to the manufacturer. When looked at this way, whoever creates or collects the raw materials is the manufacturer, and the manufacturing company that makes goods from them is the end user of that particular supply chain. What is important, however, is how that supply chain is managed. If it is not managed correctly, there are delays in the production process or there are too many shipments of materials and not enough places to store them."

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