Asia e University

Malaysian Institute of Logistics

Intermediate Logistics Officers Course

(Executive Bachelor in Logistics Management)

Group Assignment for Logistics Management

(Assignment No 3)

Enhancing Supply Support

LtCdr

Royal Navy

Date: 21 June 2011

Contents

Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 3

What is Supply Support? ............................................................................................. 3

Definition .................................................................................................................. 3

Aim .................................................................................................................................. 4

Introduction

What is Supply Support?

Definition

Supply support is the Management methods, practices and procedures employed in

determining requirements of goods and services and their acquisition, receipt, storage,

issuance, and final disposal. Supply support is an important element of integrated

logistics support1. It is very important to implement reliability and to manage different

supplies so the supply management procedure also very important criteria And should

be obtained and known as :The process of obtaining and managing of products or

services needed to operate a business or other type of organization. Elements of supply

management include the actual products, information, budgets, and employees. The

purpose of supply management procedures is to keep costs stable and use resources

effectively to increase the profits and efficiency of the business or organization2. It is

also very important to highlight the detention of

1 Supply Support. Business dictionary.com. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/supply-support.html. 21 June 2011.

2 Supply management. . Business dictionary.com. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/supply-

management.html . 21 June 2011.

Aim

The aim of this paper is to implement the Reliability Availability and maintainability

(RAM) to enhance the supply support.

Importance of RAM

Achieving specified levels of RAM for a system is important for many reasons,

specifically the affect RAM has on readiness, system safety, mission success, total

ownership cost, and logistics footprint.

1.3.1 Reliability

Reliability is the probability of an item to perform a required function under stated

conditions for a specified period of time. Reliability is further divided into mission

reliability and logistics reliability. For further information see Sections 3.2.2 and 4.4.8.

1.2.2 Availability

Availability is a measure of the degree to which an item is in an operable state and can

be committed at the start of a mission when the mission is called for at an unknown

(random) point in time. Availability as measured by the user is a function of how often

failures occur and corrective maintenance is required, how often preventative

maintenance is performed, how quickly indicated failures can be isolated and repaired,

how quickly preventive maintenance tasks can be performed, and how long logistics

support delays contribute to down time.

1.2.3 Maintainability

Maintainability is the ability of an item to be retained in, or restored to, a specified

condition when maintenance is performed by personnel having specified skill levels,

using prescribed procedures and resources, at each prescribed level of maintenance

and repair.