Defense Inventory: Further Analysis and Enhanced Metrics Could Improve Service Supply and Depot Operations

Abstract

The military services have, to varying degrees, transferred retail supply, storage, and distribution functions at their depot-level industrial sites to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and achieved some efficiencies, but have not fully assessed the costs and benefits of transferring more retail functions to DLA at Army and Marine Corps depots and Navy shipyards. Specifically, Air Force Air Logistics Complexes (ALC) and Navy Fleet Readiness Centers (FRC) transferred all retail supply, storage, and distribution functions to DLA over the course of several years. For example, according to officials and GAO's assessment, these changes have led to a number of benefits, including a 20 percent reduction in on-hand inventory and a 10 percent reduction in backorders at the Air Force ALCs over a 5-year period (see figure for examples of benefits).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1013798

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Engineers
  • Information Systems
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Management Personnel
  • Marine Transportation
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Organizational Structure
  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Management
  • United States Government
  • Uss Ronald Reagan

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  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.