RAOC Gazette - page 142
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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THE FORMATION OF THE LOGISTIC EXECUTIVE (ARMY) By MAJOR M. G. D. WILLIS (DA<JMG, DGOS, Section 1) IN the May issue of T u t CORPS GAZI-TTI- details of Che re- titling of the Director General of Ordnance Services were announced, consequent to the formation of the Logistic Executive (Army). (LE(A)J. As the first elements of the LE(A) arc moving, or about to move to the new location at Andover, it is an opportune time to explain what this new MOD Headquarters is all about. The LE(A) is an amalgamation of the following organisa- tions into a single establishment: (a) Director of Equipment Management (Army). (b) Headquarters Transport Officer in Chief .(Army). (c) Headquarters Director of Ordnance Services. (d) Headquarters Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (Army). (e) Headquarters Base Organisation R A O C (f) Headquarters REME Support Croup. The aim in forming the LE(A), is to reduce overlap between the staff and logistic service functions, especially in the area of equipment management, Each of the logistic service directors concerned have now become staff directors under the QMG and have been re-titled Director General of Transportation (DGT), Director General of Ordnance Services (DGOS) and Director General of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (DGEME). The QMGs represen- tative at the LE(A) will be the Chief of Staff, Logistic Executive, or COSLOG, whose duties will be to co-ordinate the activities of the Directors General and to have special responsibility fof the evolution of methods and the working of the LE(A). The Director General of Transportation has now taken on the responsibility for executive movements from the Directorate of Movements (Army) and in essence RAOC and REME have split the responsibilities for the management of equipment, formerly held by DQMG, between them. The rationale govern- ing the split has been on the basis of REME managing all those ranges of equipment maintained in Service by base repair and RAOC managing the remainder. Thus DGOS now have respon- sibilities to QMG in two capacities; as a Q Staff Director General and as the Director of the RAOC. Changes in the organisation and responsibilities of the directorates and the branches through which DGOS discharges his responsibilities have been made and are explained briefly in the following paragraphs. HQ DGOS. DDGOS is the deputy to DGOS and his Principal Staff Officer, he is, in addition, the Director of Q Maintenance Services. The branches under his control are: — (a) DGOS Secretariat responsible for Director level co- ordination, briefings, visits and RAOC Corps matters. (b) Ord 1 responsible for operations, training, establish- ments and manpower. (c) Ord 2 responsible for accommodation services, food, petroleum and fire services, (d) Ord F responsible for the control of expenditure and financial estimates and forecasts in respect of POL, domestic fuels and electricity, barrack services and water, Directorate of Base Depots (DBD). DBD will form from Headquarters Base Organisation RAOC on 1st January 1978 when it will become a Staff directorate under DGOS. DBD, in the rank of brigadier, will be responsible for the control and management of the RAOC depots in UK and RAOC warehousing procedures worldwide. The branches under DBDs control will be designated Ord 3, Ord 4 and Stocktaking and Reconciliation (Ord(S and R)). Equipments Division at Donnington and Vehicle Division at Chilwell are responsible for RAOC Inventory Management, whilst the Army Cataloguing Authority retain their previous responsibilities and remain a part of DSM(A's) Organisation, Directorate of Land Service Ammunition {DLSA). DLSA was formed on 1st November 1976 from the Inspectorate under CILSA. Equipment management responsibilities for am- munition have been transferred to DLSA who has also assumed control of the Ammunition Inventory Branch from the old CICP. Directorate of Supply Computer Services {DSCS), DSC5 was formed by combining the Automatic Data Processing Division, formerly part of CICP, and the Computer Systems Development Wing and is responsible for the design, implemen- tation and management of Supply Computer Systems and the formulation of RAOC ADP policy. Directorate of Clothing and Textiles. DCT is responsible to DGOS for the procurement of Clothing and Textiles for the Services and for the routine maintenance of the Army. DCT was previously under DQMGs control, but DOS (now DGOS) assumed this responsibility on 1st April 1976. By April 1978 Headquarters DGOS. DBD and DSM(A) will be colocated at Andover. DCT, DLSA and Headquarters Army Fire Services will remain for the time being in London, Didcot and Hounslow respectively, whilst DSCS will move to Bicester. The timetable for these moves is: September 1977 Ord 2 and Ord F to Andovcr. November 1977 ,.. DGOS, DSM(A) and Ord I to Andover, December 1977 DSCS to Bicester. January/February 1978 ... Ammunition Inventory Branch from Bicester to Didcot. April 1978 DBD to Andover. I A HOME of your OWN ? I I Is this Your Problem ? I I I I I I I cannot 1 can Let me Advise whether or find you a House but HELP You Buy It. You without any Obligation, you wish to Buy Now In the Future, I I I I I I I I I I Why Not Consult Doug Cilmour (Insurance Broker) "Woodlands", 35 The Broadway, Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey. Telephone: Yareley 873020 I I I I I • (Member of the Federation of Insurance Brokers) I I AM Types of Insurance Transacted. 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| Book number | R0246 |