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The operations branch also administers the
ship’s stores participation in (and responsibility
for) the Navy Stock Fund in the following ways:
l Issues policies and procedures (notices,
instructions, NAVSUP Publication 487, etc.)
l Provides input to the financial manage-
ment group (FMG) for budgetary functions
l Monitors financial operating results and
provides comments
You, as a senior Ship’s Serviceman, may find
the fleet assistance branch (SSD2) to be one of
the most valuable resources available to you
within the ship’s store division. For example, you
may find yourself in charge of a retail operation
that is not as efficient as you feel it could be. You
realize that the operation needs some type of im-
provement, but you do not know where to start
or what to do. The fleet assistance branch will
analyze your operation and will provide the
following services:
. Fleet assistance including technical
guidance and training in all phases of retail,
operating, and accounting procedures and services
for ship’s stores
. Fleet assistance including technical
guidance and training in service activities such as
laundry/dry cleaning and vending services in
ship’s stores
. Recommendations for changes to ship’s
stores policies and operating procedures
The fleet habitability assistance branch (SSD3)
provides guidelines on habitability standards in
the design and improvement of ship’s store spaces.
The functions of this branch are as follows:
l To determine, under OPNAVINST 9640.1
requirements, the required space and equipment
needed for ship’s stores retail and service activities
in regard to habitability standards for new ship
designs
l To assist NAVRESSO in making recom-
mendations to the OPNAV shipboard habitability
manager on ship’s stores retail and service
activities
l To assist ships in determining maximum
improvement of shipboard habitability in regard
to ship’s stores retail and service activities, within
the constraints imposed by physical configuration
and other competing requirements of the ship’s
resources
HOW NAVRESSO ASSISTS SHIP’S
STORES AFLOAT
There is a ship’s store on practically every
surface ship. As mentioned before, NAVRESSO
has a fleet assistance program to provide technical
assistance and guidance to ensure the efficient and
economical achievement of all ship’s stores
operations.
Fleet assistance teams are made up of fleet
assistance representatives. These representatives
are master and senior chief petty officers who are
positioned in major port areas to provide technical
and management assistance to ship’s stores.
Technical assistance may be provided by
telephone, by desk visits to fleet assistance offices,
or by advisory visits to individual ships. Visits to
ships are made on an informal basis, and no
formal report is made upon completion of the
visit.
Assistance is provided upon request for any
of the following areas:
l Modernization planning, merchandising
promotion assistance including layout, display,
and signing
l Merchandise planning, including stock
control review, model stock plans, and disposi-
tion of excess stocks
l Pricing procedures, accounting records,
returns, and bill payments
l Internal operating procedures including
internal controls consisting of cash-handling pro-
cedures, security of spaces, and receipt and in-
spection procedures
l Procurement assistance, including pur-
chasing procedures, contract administration
procedures, vendor relations, and merchandise
quality assurance, and the processing of forms for
merchandise ordered according to the simplified
requisition and purchase procedure
. Training in ship’s stores afloat operations
in retail and service areas
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