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CHAPTER 2
SUPPLY ORGANIZATION
This chapter provides basic information about the
ashore supply system and the shipboard supply
department. You will learn how they are organized and
what functions they perform. As a Storekeeper, you
may be assigned in any of the following functional
areas: accounting, correspondence and reports, stock
control, ordering, receiving, storage, or the supply
support center. In later chapters these various functions,
and the duties associated with them, are discussed
separately and in detail.
Our primary interest is in
seeing how the various functions that are performed at
different command levels merge so that the supply
system can accomplish its missions. It is important that
you understand this interrelationship if you are to do
your job successfully.
THE NAVY SUPPLY
The Navy Supply
SYSTEM
System is a part of the larger
Federal Supply System that manages millions of
different items. Knowing the functions of the various
Navy Supply System organizations will help you
understand how your job relates in managing these
items. Also, you learn how your job links to other
commands, bureaus, or offices in the Federal Supply
System. As the Navy Supply System evolved, the
organization for supply management has similarly
evolved. The organization has developed to respond to
the many changing working requirements. The
management part of the Navy Supply System
organization consist of the Assistant Secretary of the
Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations.
The office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy
(RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITION)
is responsible for supervising the Navy-wide policy in
production, procurement, supply and disposal of
material.
The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) is
responsible for planning and determining the material
support needs of the Navy’s operating forces. This
includes equipment, weapons or weapons systems,
material, supplies, facilities maintenance, and support
services.
The CNO commands all activities known as the
Systems Commands. The systems commands are:
Naval Air System Command (NAVAIR)
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
(SPAWAR)
Naval Facilities Engineering Command
(NAWAC)
Naval Sea System Command (NAVSEA)
Naval Supply System Command (NAVSUP)
NAVAL SUPPLY SYSTEMS COMMAND
The Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP)
is responsible for providing supply management
policies and technical guidance for Navy material to
activities of the Navy and Marine Corps. Guidance
includes provisioning, cataloging, inventory
management, distribution, materials-handling, traffic
management, transportation, packaging, preservation,
receipt, storage, issue, and disposal functions. Except
for those items specifically assigned to other systems
commands or offices. NAVSUP administers and
manages the Defense Business Operating Funds
(DBOF), the Navy Resale Program, and the Navy Food
Service Program. They also maintain official property
records for material in store. NAVSUP exercises
management control of field purchasing offices,
inventory control points, supply centers, and other
offices concerned with supply support. For a complete
listing of NAVSUP’s responsibilities, and those
specifically assigned to other commands, refer to Afloat
Supply Procedures, NAVSUP P-485, chapter 1.
The Navy’s supply manager is the Commander,
Naval Supply Systems Command. He makes sure the
Navy Supply System operates as a single entity.
INVENTORY MANAGERS
Navy inventory managers have primary
responsibility for the managing assigned groups or
categories of items of supply. The primary function of
a Navy inventory manager is to provide effective and
efficient support to the fleet and shore (field) activities
of the Navy. Navy inventory managers include systems
commands, project managers, bureaus, offices
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