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Defense Inventory: Depot Packing and Shipping Procedures

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Dec. 7, 1992
Report No. NSIAD-93-3
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Summary:

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) routinely consolidates the packing of low priority shipments going to the same military installation at the same time. Yet Pentagon regulations do not allow consolidating the highest priority orders going to the same place at the same time, even though this would yield considerable savings. One DLA depot has estimated that it could save about $250,000 annually through consolidated packing of these priority orders. DLA depots generally pack and ship supply items in an efficient and effective way. DLA is incurring unnecessary costs, however, because of a new Army supply system that automatically expedites transportation for high priority requisitions that fail to show a required delivery date. This procedure contradicts a Pentagon directive allowing DLA depots to downgrade the transportation priority of requisitions when materiel is not needed within 20 days. GAO also found that recycling efforts varied from one military installation to another.

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