WAREHOUSE AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Division Goal: To optimize the customers’ supply chain by reducing inventory costs, utilizing just-in-time logistics processes, and reducing unproductive waiting times.

About the Division

We pass along Skookum’s supply chain management processes so that you can provide it to your internal and external customers. Improvements in customer waiting time, customer satisfaction, waiting time for parts, and cost of inventory are the main chapters in the Skookum warehouse and inventory management book.

Services we provide our customers:

• Supply Management
• Warehousing
• Inventory Systems Management
• Retail Operations
• Retail Deployment Analysis (where you should locate your outlets to optimize customer service and system productivity)
• Delivery Management
• Postal Systems
• Just-in-time Order Fulfillment
• Auto-parts Management
• Loaned Employee Program (Use our employees to augment your workforce)

Central Issue Facility (CIF)

In April 2001, Skookum began its relationship with the United States Army as the chosen contractor to operate the Central Issue Facility (CIF) at Fort Lewis, Washington. Since that time, Skookum has managed a large warehouse where individual equipment, for all soldiers and other authorized customers, is received, repaired, stored and issued by Skookum employees. Skookum supports the community of Fort Lewis by facilitating the individual issue, turn-in and Direct Exchange (DX) of Organizational Clothing and Individual Equipment (OCIE). We also support Bulk Issues, Bulk Turn-Ins, Temporary Loans, Deployment, Re-Deployment, Mobilizations, Demobilizations and ROTC National Advanced Leadership Camp. In an average month, Skookum's experienced CIF crew will serve approximately 8,600 soldiers, each of whom will return and/or receive some 40 items of equipment, clothing and gear.

Skookum is committed to providing the soldiers and community of Fort Lewis the most efficient and friendliest service possible. We successfully exceed our customers and clients expectations while fostering a positive, supportive and learning environment for our CIF team members. We work to sustain our future at Fort Lewis by continually improving our processes and providing our customers‚ quality services and support, thereby furthering the social mission of Skookum.

Our goal is to provide absolute customer oriented service and we are totally dedicated to the highest quality customer service standards.

Division Contact

Michor Gentemann
office: 253-967-7856
mobile: 360-790-4161
email: michorg@skookum.org