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02957 - [A1993040]
How the Item Reduction Program of the General Services
Administration Could Be More Effective. LCD-76-459; B-1I6778.
Jujy 1, 1977. 20 pp. + 3 appendices (8 pp.).
Report to Joel W. Solomon, Administrator, General Services
Administration; by Fred J. Shafer, Director, Logistics aia
Communications Div.
Issue Area: Facilities and Material Management: Consolidating or
Sharing Supply and Maintenance Systems (701); Facilities and
Material Management: Requirements for Equipment, Spare Parts
and Supplies (702).
Contact: Logistics and Communications Div.
Budget Function: National Defense. Defense-related Activities
(054) ; General Goiernment: General Property and Records
Management (801'' .
Authority: 10 U.S.C. 145.
The General Ser ices Administration (GSA) maintains
supply records on over 210,000 items, with about 37,500 of these
stocked in depots at an inventory value of $223 million. The
remaining items are available to ?e'leral agencies through GSA's
special buying program. Findings/Conclusions- The GSA has
participated in an item-reduction program but has not fully
assumed responsibility for makling it effective. GSA has only
recently begun to develop an item-reduction study capability;
has continued to buy nonstandard items although the standard
items are available; and has not established controls to first
issue nonstandard inventory and then fill customer requests with
the standard items. Recommendations: The Federal Supply Service
should: implement the Defense Department's item-reduction
decisions in General Service's 69 Federal supply classes;
establish procedures for item managers to use the technical
support staff, technical data, and the data processing system to
substitute nonstandard items for standard items rather than
retain or declare them as excess nonstandard inventory; and
implement item-reduction decisions in the Defense Logistics
Agency-managed classes by deleting the nonstandard items and
referring civil agency requisitions -co Defense Logistics, or,
alternatively, agree with Defense Logistics on which agency
should stock each item so that each has only one manager.
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