Assessment of the USCENTCOM Medical Distribution Structure

摘要

In July 2008, the Director of Logistics of the Joint Staff (JSJ4) and the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4 (Army G-4) visited the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) area of responsibility (AOR) to review logistics operations. One of their questions was whether efficiencies could be gained by combining medical and nonmedical warehouse distribution with stocks consolidated at one location. RAND Arroyo Center and U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) expanded this question and explored whether there might be less costly medical distribution structures for USCENTCOM that would maintain the quality of health care delivery. In this report we describe the current distribution structure for medical (Class VIII) materiel for USCENTCOM customers, a set of alternatives, and the likely performance, cost, and other effects of changing the current system to that of one of the alternatives.