John M Menter

The Sustainment Battle Staff & Military Decision Making Process (Mdmp) Guide: for Brigade Support Battalions, Sustainment Brigades, and Combat Sustainment John M Menter

Publisher Marketing: Since 2004, the US Army has started a revolution of reorganization and doctrine development throughout its Combat, Combat Support and especially Combat Service Support logistics organizations, known as Transformation. In the logistics or Sustainment arena, the Army's concept towards supporting other units has changed from the old out-stockpile the enemy concept towards a system used by modern civilian distributors - Just-In-Time sustainment, leaving planning and synchronizing throughput of commodities and support to the customer with little margin of error. To successfully accomplish this, Sustainment planners must thoroughly understand the Military Decision Making Process or MDMP for short. Conducting a Sustainment oriented MDMP is essential in integrating the Sustainment War Fighting Functional Area into the unit's plan and for ensuring a synchronized and supportable course of action. Successful integration is a result of having the right personnel, available tools, correct MDMP methodology, and synchronized timeline throughout the process. If this guide can assist logistics' planners in accomplishing this process, then it has accomplished its intent and mission.