Improvements Needed in Management of Items Transferred from the Army to the Defense Supply Agency
Abstract
DOD has long recognized the desirability of eliminating duplication in the supply systems of the military departments. In the early 1960s it established the Integrated Materiel Management Program to effect economies and to increase supply effectiveness by consolidating and concentrating under a single agency the management of items used by two or more military services. DSA was designated the focal point of the program. Certain commodity stock classes, previously managed by the individual service supply activities, were assigned to DSA for integrated management. Subsequently, DOD instructed military service managers to screen the items they were managing in the commodity classes assigned to DSA and to transfer management to DSA for those items which the services did not need. During fiscal years 1969 through 1971, the services transferred 319,000 items to DSA supply centers for management. The Army transferred about 36 percent of these items and the following table shows the number of items that the Army transferred each year.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 03, 1974
- Accession Number
- AD1118998
Entities
People
- F. J. Shafer
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office