This new Decision Support was uploaded and used to establish new stockage goals on 3 May. Average order-ship times for last year ranged from 15 to 25 days for most items. In general, PI is adding an additional 14 days to average OSTs to derive OSTs for future stockage requirements. This means that retail stockage objectives are now driven almost automatically by DSCP s order fulfillment performance. The shorter the OSTs, the lower the retail stockage requirements. Several women s items require over 100 days for OST now so stockage requirements are extremely high for these.
Slacks are two good examples.
Continue to train managers and make minor improvements as required. Add the capability to adjust the retail BIO for the seasonal nature of recruit accessions weekly. Add a field to carry the policy safety level in DOS at the NSN levels. Develop the decision support module for PI that computes optimum stockage goals in terms of BIO and SIO by 1 Jun 99. The first fully functional version was installed and Item Manager training was conducted on 4 May 99.