| The Supply Management Unit of the National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL),
under the direction of Will Lanier, has implemented a warehouse inventory
control system. The warehouse maintains an extensive inventory of materials and
office supplies. In this cost-containment climate, Lanier has adopted the
Computer Associates' ACCPAC software package for development of an in-house
inventory system using the new Distributed Information System (DIS). The system
is 95 percent computerized and provides management with the ability to track
supply use and to reorder.
The efforts of the warehouse mirror a national trend toward efficiency in
cost accounting and inventory control. The private sector has long realized the
importance of real-time access to inventory. Now, the NWQL warehouse is using
new concepts to streamline, manage, and develop a cost-accounting approach that
will provide a building block for the systems in use at the Laboratory.
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