Planning

[Bill Foster]

Planning. Way back in 99, some were concerned about the Y2k bug, including me. The county that I lived in had no plans, none. I heard that a neighboring county was having a public forum. The informal meeting had a gentleman who was prior military logistics. At his age I assumed post-Korea. People were asking questions and he was giving input from the knowledge he had gleaned with meetings with county officials. The concern was about power outages. He told the group not to worry about hospital services, as they had back-up generators and if power were lost, nursing home residents would be moved to local schools where generators would set up as necessary. I asked if fuel was available; he said that the police and fire serviced had fuel stores at the repair center. After the official meeting ended, I hung around and asked another couple of questions. I asked how they were going to get the fuel out of the tanks without power. Unsure. As hospital tanks and school generators ran out of fuel, how would fuel be transported? Unsure. There were more questions, but you get the idea. My point leads to project management. Take a task, break it down to its smallest elements and then build it back to completion. Example: To cook you need fire, for fire you need dry wood, tinder, and something to ignite the tinder. I thought of this today as I made four trips across my property to my workroom for tools to replace a motion sensor. At least I got my exercise for the day. Exercise was the plan, right? Proper prior planning...

[Lowdown3]

Can't tell you how many times I've done similar, or had a project grind to a halt due to a lack of a .50 pipe fitting or something like that. Then you spend $8. in gas to go and get the .50 PVC fitting. Actually you usually buy four of them and squirrel them away for "the next time."

Logistics planning is like that- it's like a big train. Each piece is coupled together with the other.

Look at your needs and work backwards from that. Everything needs to be thought and worked through mentally. "Lists" are great, but thinking through the process yourself is better- it forces you to visualize the situation. And besides, half of the "lists" out there are regurgitated crap.

One need may have multiple answers to fill it, with each answer have multiple logistics chains.

Water- it may be about keeping your well running which means spare parts for it, power for it which may mean POL supplies stocked for that or another leg might be a hand pumped well which means lube for the hand pump, extra ****** rods and leathers if applicable. Another leg might be gutters on your house which means water tanks, extra gutters, connections, ways to tap the water then filter. Another legs might be ground water sources which might mean safe and secure access points with cover and concealment, buckets or other ways to draw water, mass filtration and processing, storage issues, etc. etc.

It really becomes a fun mental game :)

[protus]

When I do the logistics /plan what it's.
I end needed,4 2000sq ft buildings...spread sheets for the inventory and another 10 acres lol .

I deal with the same junk at work.

Just fix it.

Ummm..no we need x and 10 of them,plus y and 5 gallons of it.

Why..it ain't that hard....

3 hours later.
Go to xyz and buy those parts ...hurry up .I'm holding the water so we don't flood.