Resilience and Military Supply Chain Management

Abstract

Military supply chain management (MSC) represents a crucial role in the military sector to ensure operation sustainability. A MSC is concerned with focused logistics, precision and velocity, coordinated delivery schedules, fast and flexible distribution, resilience planning, and good infrastructure and equipment at distribution centers. Starting from the challenges of military organizations in the future, the article aims to give an overview about essential parts of a military supply chain for a military operation in missions abroad, the military definition of resilience, the integration of risk and resilience planning, and in the military operational planning. In summary, a military supply chain network must adapt to any change in requirements and recover quickly and stainability from a disruption, and is influenced by properties and activities that must be established and well though through in advanced of the creation of a military network.