A Spreadsheet Implementation of an Ammunition Requirements Planning Model for the Canadian Army

W. J. Hurley () and Mathieu Balez ()
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W. J. Hurley: Department of Business Administration, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7K 7B4
Mathieu Balez: Department of Business Administration, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7K 7B4

Interfaces, 2008, vol. 38, issue 4, 271-280

Abstract: This paper describes our experience constructing a spreadsheet implementation of a dynamic ammunition requirements model for Canadian Army training. Each year, the Canadian Army offers a variety of training courses and expends approximately $40 million in ammunition costs to run these courses. It was budgeting over $60 million, and this created a number of organizational problems. The Canadian Army needed a planning tool to bring budgeted expenditures into line with actual expenditures. Our 14 MB spreadsheet implementation accomplished this objective, and the Canadian Army is very pleased with the result.

Keywords: military; logistics; software; system design/operation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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