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DCCUMENT FESUME
03685 - [B28-74145]
[Implementation of Recommended Improvements by the Defense
Logistics Agency]. LCD-77-111; B-133118. October 14, 1977. 9 pp.
Report to Secretary, Department of DefePse; by Robert G.
Rothwell (for Fred J. Shafer, Director, Logistics and
Communications Div.).
Issue Area: Military Preparedness Plans: Military Communications
and Infornation Processing Needs (803).
Contact: Logistics and Communications Div.
Budget Function: National Defense: Defense-related Activities
(054).
Organizaticn Concerned: Defense Logistics Agency.
Congressional Relevance: House Consittee on Arted Services;
Senate Committee on Armed Seroices.
A review of the actions taken by the Defense Logistics
Agency (DLA) to implement the reccumendations contained in the
report entitled Autonated Support of Depot Operations Could Be
Improved showed that DLA has not fully implemented those
recommendations that will provide the most substantial
improvements in the automated depot system.
Findings/Conclusions: DLA can realize substantial savings in
materiel shipment costs when it imFroves consolidation of parcel
pos4 shipments with freight shipments. Additional controls and
verification procedures are still needed before DLA should rely
on its microfiche records for its shipping and transportation
data. Reccmmendaticns: The Secretary of Defense should direct
the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency to revise the
automated depot systems to identi~v those parcel post shipments
that .:an be combined with freight Lhipments and sent at a
reduced cost and to incorporate adcitional procedures and
controls to provide assurance that all shipping data related to
its shipments is included in the microfiche records. In
addition, the Office of the Secretary of Defense should rrovide
for evaluation of the process of establishing and mainta&ning
materiel descriptions used by the wilitary services. After the
evaluation, the establishment of effective procedures should be
assured by the Office so that the freight description of
materiel will be consistent and uniform. (SC)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaawak0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)