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Navy Embarks on a Warehousing and Storage GSIP

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Story Number: NNS070815-16
Release Date: 8/15/2007 4:55:00 PM

From Commander, Fleet and Industrial Supply Centers Public Affairs

SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- The Navy has embarked on an ambitious global shore infrastructure plan (GSIP) footprint reduction initiative in support of the CNO’s target of a 30 million square feet reduction by 2013.

The Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP), working in partnership with Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) and Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), will lead an effort to deliver a significant piece of that infrastructure savings in the area of warehousing and storage facilities.

A senior-level stakeholder meeting was held July 12 at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., to kick-off this important cost-saving initiative.

The warehouse and storage GSIP will cut laterally across all Navy enterprises and enabling activities to capture and assess the Navy’s warehouse and storage requirements.

“The ultimate objective will be to both drive down our warehouse and storage footprint and develop a comprehensive, corporate warehouse and storage facilities strategy, which delivers a more effective return on our warehouse and storage investment dollars for the future," said Rear Adm. Ray Berube, Commander, Fleet and Industrial Supply Centers (COMFISCs) and the NAVSUP lead for the GSIP initiative.

Three major elements to this initiative will require stakeholder involvement.

“The first thing we need to do is ensure we have a good snapshot of the current warehouse and storage profile,” said COMFISCs GSIP Program Manager, Cmdr. Brian Weiss.
“This will be done by looking at current stakeholder storage requirements and assessing the characteristics and condition of their warehouse and storage facilities.

“The second required action will be more complex and will involve each stakeholder pressurizing their individual storage requirement to ensure it can pass the good business practice test, a critical factor in determining our success in terms of footprint reduction,” he said.

Key tenets involved with this second element include ensuring the cost of holding material is incorporated into the stakeholder decision process to store material, and that stakeholder decision criteria also allow for an appropriate level of risk in any requirements analysis.

Once current facilities profiles and core current and future storage requirements are identified, work can begin on the third element of the warehouse and storage GSIP, to generate facility strategy and investment plans.

“We expect this GSIP initiative to yield a plan, which not only reduces our infrastructure footprint, but that also transitions into more modern, better maintained facilities,” said Berube.

COMFISCs' mission is to facilitate best business practices and efficiencies across the seven FISCs located in San Diego, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Fla.; Yokosuka, Japan; Pearl Harbor, Bremerton (Puget Sound), Wash.; and Sigonella, Italy. COMFISCs is also responsible for optimizing the performance of base supply functions and standardizing levels of service across 13 regions and 110 Navy installations worldwide.

COMFISCs comprises more than 7,500 military and civilian logistics professionals, operating as a single cohesive team providing logistics services from more than 100 locations worldwide.