Pure pallets: effectiveness and efficiency impacts on the defense transportation system

The military supply chain must explore initiatives to improve its ability to meet warfighter needs. One initiative, developed during operations in Afghanistan and Iraq is the pure pallet process—by consolidating material early in the supply chain into user-specific pallets, these pallets are able to transit the defense transportation system without being broken down en route, theoretically arriving to the warfighter in less time than prior break-bulk methods required. The pure pallet initiative’s effectiveness and efficiency was assessed by measuring customer requisition wait time, cargo throughput, and revenue performance. It was found that effectiveness increased, without corresponding losses in efficiency

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Contains research objectives and reports on four research projects.Lincoln Laboratory, Purchase Order DDL-B222Department of the ArmyDepartment of the NavyDepartment of the Air Force under Contract AF19(122)-45