Traditional ways ‘defy logic’ MoD chiefs warn delegates_2
19 July 2012
Old-fashioned attitudes are blocking the modernisation of supply chains for military spending, senior members of the Ministry of Defence’s logistics arm have warned.
Wing Commander Nigel Stevens of the Defence Logistics Organisation’s (DLO) corporate strategy team told delegates to the Logistics Forum, which met recently on the Oriana cruise liner, of the difficulties involved in delivering requested savings of £1.38 billion by 2005.
“The attitudes we have to overcome defy logic if we want to deliver change,” he said. “Every...