Defence inventory management

To address its long-standing challenges in inventory management and successfully deliver its transformation initiatives, we recommend that the MoD: defines the levels of inventory needed to support its new strategic aims, and develops an understanding of what arrangements are needed to support these, and the barriers to achieving them

To address its long-standing challenges in inventory management and successfully deliver its transformation initiatives, we recommend that the MoD: identifies and prioritises the resources it needs within Defence Support and across MoD?s constituent organisations to ensure its transformation programmes can be implemented successfully to deliver the available financial and operational benefits.

To address its long-standing challenges in inventory management and successfully deliver its transformation initiatives, we recommend that the MoD: ensures that a management framework for raw material and consumable commodities is in operation, which controls demand and consumption, incentivises the upkeep of reserve items, and is supported by appropriate management information and tools;

To address its long-standing challenges in inventory management and successfully deliver its transformation initiatives, we recommend that the MoD: develops an assessment of the skills and resources its needs across inventory management, whether current resourcing levels are sufficient to meet these, and what resourcing risks it is carrying in its current and future operations.

To address its long-standing challenges in inventory management and successfully deliver its transformation initiatives, we recommend that the MoD: draws together the best practice from its current projects to identify surplus inventory, supported by a coherent plan covering its whole inventory estate. It must also ensure this approach is brought into its future inventory management outsourcing;