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NSIAD-84-81 1 (1984-04-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnhx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIVISION B-21 4536 APRIL 5, 1984 The Honorable Caspar W. Weinberger The Secretary of Defense Dear Mr. Secretary: 123840 Subject: Consolidation of Personal Property Shipping Offices (GAO/NSIAD-84-81) In a 1981 report, the Defense Audit Service (DAS) estimated that about $3 million could be saved anually by consolidating selected Personal Property Shipping Offices within the con- tinental United States. At the request of members of Congress, we reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD's) recent efforts to consolidate these offices. Although some consolidation action was taken in 1981 and 1982, the consolidation plan implemented by DOD was more limited in scope than recommended by DAS and did not achieve the savings expected. Consolidation generally was limited to booking out- bound personal property shipments, including administering non- temporary storage and the Carrier Evaluation Reporting System. Other functions, including management of inbound shipments; local moves; do-it-yourself moves; inspections of personal property shipments for quality assurance, both outbound and inbound; and personal property shipments by the direct procurement, method, remain fragmented among the shipping offices. Also, in several instances, the booking workloads of larger shipping offices were transferred to smaller offices which, although employing limited automation, had neither the staff nor the equipment to handle the increased workloads. Although some staffing authorizations were transferred from the losing to the gaining offices with the workloads, more staff had to be added. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS We believe the 1982 consolidations were useful if viewed as a first step in overcoming the military services' reluctance to consolidate; however, they did not achieve the expected savings because they were not complete. They did not result in any (943398) 0,-) L4q

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