Project Proposal
Over the past several weeks we have looked at the business need of how we improve the food service support in the 35th Services Logistics Operations Branch to be more conducive to its customers and the inventory process. A deficiency was identified in the inventory process procedure and recommendations were made. This paper will summarize our efforts over the past few weeks.
Systems Solution
The 35th Services Logistics Operations Branch is an activity attached to an overseas military Morale Welfare and Recreations Unit. They are charged with the storage, accountability and maintaining of the fixed and resale assets assigned to the Air Base Support Group. In the logistics branch the resale department is responsible for receiving, accounting, storing, distributing and inventorying of resale assets and foodstuffs assigned to the unit primarily. There are two existing factors that contribute to the sometimes daunting and conflicting task of receiving scheduled shipments and conducting of monthly 100% inventory.
The shipment delivery date is set by the stateside distribution centers and by higher command. The logistics branch, located in Northern Japan, receives shipments in accordance with scheduled leave times from the United States West Coast-based California Pacific Distribution Company. In an effort to provide tracking accuracy and to ensure that governmental costs are minimized it would not be feasible to govern the shipping of goods from stateside to Japan in any other fashion. The shipments are normally received, in credible environments, of course, within a window of the last 10-12 days in each month.
In addition, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces require that MWR logistics facilities submit a month ...