The risk to reconstitution: supply chain risk management for the future of the US Air Force’s organic supply chain
Purpose – The future retirement of US Air Force (USAF) legacy weapon systems (WSs) removes their associated funding from within the Air Force Working Capital Fund and their parts from its organic supply chain inventory. The trending outsourcing of product support to contracted logistics support and...
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| description | Purpose – The future retirement of US Air Force (USAF) legacy weapon systems (WSs) removes their associated funding from within the Air Force Working Capital Fund and their parts from its organic supply chain inventory. The trending outsourcing of product support to contracted logistics support and its potential long-term consequences to the USAF government-owned, government-operated, organic supply chain and the reconstitution capabilities it enables in the USAF’s organic industrial base, suggests the need to assess its risks. Although there is an existing body of research into the risks of outsourcing the USAF’s industrial repair, and federal legislation such as Core 50/50 laws enacted to institutionalize its risk management, there is comparatively little research into the outsourcing risks to the long-term viability of the supply chain on which that repair capability is dependent. The aim of this research is to fill that research gap by assessing and modeling those risks. This research concludes by providing several future research directions that may be evaluated to provide more detail. Design/methodology/approach – Leveraging a conceptual model derived from research and a multi-criteria analysis framework to assess supply chain risk. Quantifying the predicted impact of retirements on funding and inventories of unique parts. Modeling the potential risk due to WS retirement. Findings – Results indicated long term enterprise risks to the Air Force’s supply chain correlated to the retirement of WSs and their associated funding and spare parts inventory. Originality/value – This research provides an in-depth evaluation of the USAF’s supply chain to assess the holistic risk of product support outsourcing and its long-term impacts on viability by using resource-based view and contingency theory as theoretical underpinnings. In addition, insights and implications for defense supply chain managers and decision-makers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6c38433f6dd847c9a9e75118ee4e3cf12022-12-22T03:16:37ZengEmerald PublishingJournal of Defense Analytics and Logistics2399-64392399-64472020-05-0141194010.1108/JDAL-03-2019-0005644204The risk to reconstitution: supply chain risk management for the future of the US Air Force’s organic supply chainDavid Loska0James Higa1US Air Force, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USAUS Air Force, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USAPurpose – The future retirement of US Air Force (USAF) legacy weapon systems (WSs) removes their associated funding from within the Air Force Working Capital Fund and their parts from its organic supply chain inventory. The trending outsourcing of product support to contracted logistics support and its potential long-term consequences to the USAF government-owned, government-operated, organic supply chain and the reconstitution capabilities it enables in the USAF’s organic industrial base, suggests the need to assess its risks. Although there is an existing body of research into the risks of outsourcing the USAF’s industrial repair, and federal legislation such as Core 50/50 laws enacted to institutionalize its risk management, there is comparatively little research into the outsourcing risks to the long-term viability of the supply chain on which that repair capability is dependent. The aim of this research is to fill that research gap by assessing and modeling those risks. This research concludes by providing several future research directions that may be evaluated to provide more detail. Design/methodology/approach – Leveraging a conceptual model derived from research and a multi-criteria analysis framework to assess supply chain risk. Quantifying the predicted impact of retirements on funding and inventories of unique parts. Modeling the potential risk due to WS retirement. Findings – Results indicated long term enterprise risks to the Air Force’s supply chain correlated to the retirement of WSs and their associated funding and spare parts inventory. Originality/value – This research provides an in-depth evaluation of the USAF’s supply chain to assess the holistic risk of product support outsourcing and its long-term impacts on viability by using resource-based view and contingency theory as theoretical underpinnings. In addition, insights and implications for defense supply chain managers and decision-makers.https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JDAL-03-2019-0005/full/pdf?title=the-risk-to-reconstitution-supply-chain-risk-management-for-the-future-of-the-us-air-forces-organic-supply-chainoutsourcingpurchasingsupply chain risk managementrisk and vulnerabilityacquisition and procurementair force |
| spellingShingle | David Loska James Higa The risk to reconstitution: supply chain risk management for the future of the US Air Force’s organic supply chain Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics outsourcing purchasing supply chain risk management risk and vulnerability acquisition and procurement air force |
| title | The risk to reconstitution: supply chain risk management for the future of the US Air Force’s organic supply chain |
| title_full | The risk to reconstitution: supply chain risk management for the future of the US Air Force’s organic supply chain |
| title_fullStr | The risk to reconstitution: supply chain risk management for the future of the US Air Force’s organic supply chain |
| title_full_unstemmed | The risk to reconstitution: supply chain risk management for the future of the US Air Force’s organic supply chain |
| title_short | The risk to reconstitution: supply chain risk management for the future of the US Air Force’s organic supply chain |
| title_sort | risk to reconstitution supply chain risk management for the future of the us air force s organic supply chain |
| topic | outsourcing purchasing supply chain risk management risk and vulnerability acquisition and procurement air force |
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