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National Defense: Navy Logistics Data-Base Problems Need Increased Management Attention

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Aug. 19, 1983
Report No. NSIAD-83-48
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Summary:

GAO completed a review of Navy efforts to improve the accuracy of its logistics database as a part of a project to acquire new computers and redesign the Uniform Inventory Control Point (UICP) system.

Over the years, the accuracy and reliability of logistics information in the UICP database has been challenged in GAO and other audit reports. GAO has stated that incomplete inventory data in Navy computer records have resulted in understatement of stock on hand and overbuying. Logistics managers at the inventory control points are aware of the inaccuracies in the system and there are a number of ongoing efforts designed to improve database quality. However, GAO found that the plans which the Navy has developed to replace the computer and totally redesign the UICP system do not adequately address the database problems and that independent efforts to redesign the system are being made by different entities within the inventory control points.

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