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FAIRBORN — Three Wright State University graduate students have proposed a change in the Air Force’s supply-chain program that they claim could save the service tens of millions of dollars in costs annually.
The students in the university’s master’s of science in logistics and supply chain management degree program, in a project done for the class, studied Air Force parts distribution systems that support aircraft programs. Their study concluded that if just 4 percent of spare parts inventories for the F-15C Eagle aircraft were consolidated from decentralized warehouses, the Air Force could save millions.