Procedures and Practices Used by Army and Navy Inventory Managers and Their Shipping Activities To Respond to Requests for Cancellation of Requisitions for Materiel

The Navy, having responded to earlier GAO recommendations, has implemented an automatic data processing system which has saved an estimated $44 million in procurement and transportation costs between July 1974 and March 1976 by identifying and cancelling unfilled orders for materiel which the requisitioners no longer needed.