STATISTICAL AND INVENTORY PROCEDURES APPLIED TO NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT. Final Report

This report recommends centralized data reporting and analysis applied to inventory management and materials control. Adoption of this report will require a two-stage development program. In the first or study phase, a computer system (software) organization will take the lead role but will work closely with the AEC organization affected. The study phase, lasting three to four months, will delineate clearly the specific approaches to be taken, potential difficulties and advantages, costs, and the preliminary systems concept and specifications for the basic information system and procedures needed for statistical control and inventory management. The AEC, after review of the study phase, would normally proceed with detailed development, programming, and implementation in which it would be assisted by outside organizations, but in which it must play the dominant role. The basic information system needed for monitoring and statistical control of nuclear materials probably could be operable within a year from the start of the study phase. Implementation of more complex and specialized statistical and inventory management techniques would extend over another four to eight months.