SCOPE, LIMITATIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS
This study focuses on the initiatives at the Defense General Supply Center
(DGSC) with regard to the Buy Response Vice Inventory (BRVI) program, a
Government purchasing initiative program that contains common elements with
commercial Just-In-Time (JIT) purchasing. The BRVI initiative was analyzed to
determine those factors that may help and/or hinder successful implementation ofJIT
purchasing at other DOD activities. In addition to information provided by the Defense
General Supply Center (DGSC), contractor purchasing operations personnel were
interviewed and surveyed to determine those elements that were either a significant
barrier to implementation or hindered the implementation process. No other limitations
were included in this study.
The key assumption in this study is that the reader is familiar with general
business and Government relationships through the purchasing process.