Download or read book The Army Can Save Millions Annually by Properly Considering Serviceable Returns in Its Requirements Computations written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review was undertaken of the way the Army removes invalid demands, representing unsuccessful attempts by customers to cancel orders, from its demand database. Currently, the Army's wholesale supply system's procedures reduce demands in the database by crediting the amount of serviceable materiel customers return. However, the automated system at each inventory control point can be set to limit or prevent serviceable returns from initiating demand reductions in the system's database. Moreover, the U.S. Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command (DARCOM) has given the inventory control points blanket authority to use these limitations without prior notice or approval. On the basis of an analysis of 115,000 returns of serviceable materiel from the field to DARCOM inventory control points, GAO estimated that in 1978 the Army wholesale inventory managers received $1 06.2 million of serviceable returns for demand-supported items. However, because four of the five inventory control points imposed limitations on the use of serviceable returns to offset demands, serviceable returns worth millions of dollars were not used to reduce the demand base. Moreover, if the returned materiel had been used to offset past demands the Army could have avoided inventory procurement and repair costs estimated at tens of millions of dollars.

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Download or read book The Army s Use of Serviceable Returns in Requirements Computations written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO surveyed the Army's serviceable returns to the wholesale supply level to determine the degree of compliance with the recommendations in a previous report. The Department of Defense (DOD) had concurred with that report's recommendation that the Army reduce projected requirements for materiel by the full amount of forecasted returns of serviceable materiel. DOD directed the Army to review the procedures that establish an offset to demands through serviceable returns at the inventory control points (ICP) and ensure that the policy was followed. GAO found that, as a result of forecasted serviceable returns, the rate of offset demands remained low. The Army's excess serviceable materiel is either returned to the wholesale supply level or disposed of locally. The Army Materiel Command (AMC) established limits on the serviceable return rate that ICP's could use to offset the demand history by directing that any ICP that used a maximum rate exceeding 20 percent was to furnish its rationale for doing so. An AMC study concluded that: (1) using the returns to offsets demand history did not improve the forecast of future net demands; and (2) a forecast which offsets returns would cost less but would result in a lower supply performance. However, the GAO study did not show either of these results. GAO found that nearly 50 percent of the reported serviceable materiel is accepted by the wholesale supply activities; however, these returns are recorded as assets on hand and receive limited consideration in forecasting requirements which results in unnecessary procurements.

Download or read book Background Material on Economic Aspects of Military Procurement and Supply written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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