Project Snowshoe: Planning Warehouse Space Requirements at the CIA

摘要

As part of its logistics organization, the Central Intelligence Agency has an800,000 square foot warehousing operation responsible for receipt, storage, staging, issuing, packing, and transportation of a variety of materials to various groups within the Agency. In this study, we conclude that the range and depth of items in storage can be reduced significantly and that the Agency's goal of vacating 250,000 square feet of space is attainable. We recommend that the logistics organization form a partnership with its customers that is significantly different from today's environment to prevent the costly buildup of unnecessary materials in the future. We also recommend specific actions to improve performance, reduce costs, and achieve the consolidation of space within the warehousing operation. The opportunity for cost reduction in following our advice is savings of $10 million to $16 million annually in material procurements and $2 million annually in storage space fees.