Organizational Concepts for Purchasing and Supply Management Implementation

This report presents a construct for reorganizing Air Force acquisition and purchasing activities by implementing purchasing and supply management.

This report presents a construct for reorganizing Air Force acquisition and purchasing activities using purchasing and supply management (PSM).

PSM involves managing not only suppliers but the entire supply network.

A PSM demonst ration was chartered and eight initiatives were targeted to help modernize the spares process and ultimately put more spares into the hands of maintainers.

The report presents a flexible, springboard design to guide implementation of the process.