Interservice Availability of Multiservice Used Items.
Abstract
A recent Inspector General, DoD, review identified approximately $0.5 million of inventory unused in one Service that could have been transferred to other using Services to reduce planned procurements. Because of the concern that Services may hold or dispose of excess inventory that other Services could potentially use, the Joint Logistics Commanders requested that the Joint Logistics Audit Planning Group review this issue to determine the extent of the problem and to recommend corrective actions. As of March 31, 1998, approximately 5,700 items were coded as inconsistently managed. The overall audit objective was to evaluate how effectively Service item managers coordinated multiservice item disposal and transfer. Specifically, we evaluated procedures and controls that the Services used over inconsistently managed assets and how well they coordinated asset transfer to other Services or disposal to the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service. We judgmentally sampled 80 of 50,302 disposal transactions for items considered to be consistently managed and 105 of the 5,700 items coded as inconsistently managed. We also reviewed the management control program as it related to the overall objective.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 14, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA366768
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense