The supply chain of military and civilian organizations have one thing in common: they both need to integrate information technology into their chain management supply. Although some schools of thought may argue that both industries need the same organizational skills when implementing IT in the supply chain, this assertion is debatable. This article primarily focuses on the need for much greater IT implementation in the military supply chain compared to civilian organizations. Information technology is probably one of the most important aspects in military and civilian organizations. Due to major differences in supply chain design objectives in the two sectors, different organizational capabilities are essential when implementing and planning for information technology in military and civilian organizations. For example, unlike civilian organizations, military organizations use highly sophisticated, sensitive and specialized weapons. Some weapons must be handled with appropriate care and kept secret from the public. This high sophistication and specialization of the military hardware system is accompanied by much higher information technology competence than that of most civilian organizations. According to Wang (2012), managing the military supply chain is often a challenge. First, military stocks must come from a single supplier, with no other commercial markets to examine. Many parts, including transmissions and engines, can be repaired and should be overhauled to serve as a resource for future supply. This means that in addition to managing a forward logistics channel, the military must also manage a reverse logistics channel of almost equal magnitude...... in the middle of the paper supply chain... ...zation. First, the Army must have best-in-class integration of material handling controls with WMS (Basu et al., 2007). This is necessary to enable it to optimize the use of space in the warehouse to create optimized space for any unpredictable military inventory. Additionally, unlike civilian organizations, additional intelligence is required for scanning, coding, and even performing tasks via voice command. Works Cited Basu, G., Butner, K., Cope, E., Deleris, L., Dong , J., Helander, M.,…Ray, B. (2007). Managing supply chain risks: a delicate balancing act. Retrieved from http://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/papers/2A4BBFF62659E48B852573A1007488DF/$File/rc24415.pdf Wang, M.Y. (2012). From factory to foxhole: Improving the military's supply chain. Retrieved from http://www.naefrontiers.org/File.aspx?id=21911