Inventory Management: Army Needs To Reduce Retail Level Excesses
NSIAD-87-197
Published: Sep 02, 1987. Publicly Released: Sep 02, 1987.
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Highlights
GAO examined the Army's procedures for controlling excess stocks of secondary items to determine whether retail installations were: (1) reporting excess items to the National Inventory Control Point (NICP) for subsequent redistribution to other facilities; (2) retaining the items; (3) redistributing them to another installation; or (4) disposing of them in some other manner.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| Department of the Army | To provide the wholesale inventory managers with complete information on excess secondary items at the retail level and enhance their capabilities to make more informed procurement and redistribution decisions, the Secretary of the Army should direct retail-level item managers to report all excesses, not just those items that the installation-level item manager determines should be reported to the wholesale level. In those cases where an installation needs to retain items over its authorized stock level, the installation's item manager should justify the need and obtain the wholesale-level manager's concurrence. |
Closed – Implemented
The Army notified its major commands to report all excesses.
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| Department of the Army | To provide the wholesale inventory managers with complete information on excess secondary items at the retail level and enhance their capabilities to make more informed procurement and redistribution decisions, the Secretary of the Army should direct the major commands to eliminate retention levels for those secondary items for which retention levels are not authorized. |
Closed – Implemented
The Army advised its major commands to eliminate retention levels for items where retention levels are not authorized. The Army also directed that freeze codes to preclude automatic reporting be eliminated.
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Army suppliesEquipment inventoriesInventory control systemsMilitary cost controlMilitary inventoriesSurplus propertyMilitary forcesProcurementInventory controlStock market