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CHAPTER 7
SUPPLY PROCEDURES
When a piece of equipment becomes inoperative
because of a broken part, you must replace the broken
part. If you do not have a replacement or spare part, you
must order one from supply.
What must you do to obtain materials from the
supply department? What forms are used to requisition
materials? As a petty officer, you should be able to
answer those questions. Why is that so important?
Because as a petty officer, you may be the work center
supervisor responsible for maintaining the equipment
within your center.
The purpose of this chapter is to help you become
familiar with the workings of the supply department. By
understanding how the supply department works, you
can use the Navy supply system to help you carry out
your duties more effectively. You will be provided
information on material identification (that is, national
stock number format, etc.), requisition documents, and
material expenditures.
This chapter is not intended to make you an expert
in the area of supply. Rather, it is designed to give you
a basic understanding of supply matters to improve your
supervisory abilities.
The following definitions of the basic supply terms
should help you understand the material in this chapter:
CONTROLLED EQUIPAGE—Items requiring
special management control because the material is
essential to the protection of life or is relatively valuable
and can be converted easily for personal use.
LOGISTICS—The science of planning and carrying
out the movement and maintenance of military forces. In
its most comprehensive sense, logistics involve those
aspects of military operations that deal with the
following areas:
1. Design, development, acquisition, storage,
movement,
distribution,
maintenance,
evacuation, and disposition of material
2.
Acquisition,
construction,
maintenance,
operation, and disposition of facilities
3.
Acquisition and furnishing of services
4.
Movement, evacuation, and hospitalization
of personnel
MATERIAL—All items necessary to equip,
operate, maintain, and support an activity.
SUPPLIES—All items necessary to equip, maintain,
and operate a military command, including food,
clothing, equipment, arms, ammunition, fuel, materials,
and machinery of all types.
SUPPLY—The
procurement,
distribution,
maintenance (while in storage), and salvage of supplies,
including the determination of the type and quality of
supplies.
SUPPLY CONTROL—The process by which an
item of supply is controlled within the supply system,
including requisitioning, receipt, storage, stock control,
shipment, disposition, identification, and accounting.
MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION
Learning Objectives: Recognize the different types of
stock and control numbers. Recall the purpose of
cognizance symbols. Recall the purpose of the special
material identification code. Recognize sources of
identifying material when a stock number is not
available. Recognize the uses of the following supply
publications: ML-N, MCRL, MRIL, ASG, and COSAL.
What is meant by material identification? Why is it
necessary? What tools are available for you to use in
identifying material? The problem of material
identification is not peculiar to the Navy or the military.
You probably have had occasion to purchase a part for
your car or an appliance or to use a mail-order catalog.
Those items were all identified by a catalog or part
number as part of the manufacturer’s or supplier’s
identification system. Companies use an identification
system for the same reason the Navy does. It is a brief,
