Two required inventories are the Sensitive Item Inventory and Annual Inventory. Quartermasters have been doing these inventories for years - nothing new. Yet, most units only publish schedules for who will be performing the inventory but not who is getting inventoried . Also, units wait until the last minute to add inventories to the training schedule, causing rescheduling or canceling of events.
Predictability ensures completing inventories in a timely and efficient manner.
C ommanders can increase predictability by spending three hours to schedule these inventories for a year or more. Yes, it is possible to schedule in three hours or less in as few as five steps. Plus, once inventories are on the training calendar, leaders will be less likely to wait until the end of the month to perform them and will not be scheduling them when a section has another mission. D o not start your three-hour clock yet, though. This schedule usually is published by memorandum for an entire year.