table 1-7 postal service facilities workload

 Projects Completed During FY2003Projects Ongoing as of End of FY2003
New construction, major renovations, and expansion projects1192
Building Purchases2423
New construction, major renovations, and expansion projects1629
Other lease actions (alternate quarters, new leases, and lease renewals)6,0382,535
Expense repair and alteration projects11,7445,400
Capital repair and alteration projects11,0002,249
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table 1-6 realty asset management

Leasing to private tenants$29.1 million     
Leasing to government tenants$33.2 million     
Sales of excess property$27.8 million     








c. Postal Service Facilities Workload
























3. Supply Management

     The Postal Service's Transformation Plan states that "adopting business-driven purchasing and materials management procedures will enhance supply chain management." Supply chain management (SCM) has become one of the most successful aspects of contemporary business. To increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs, the Postal Service adopted the SCM philosophy and its attendant business practices as a key enabling strategy to Postal Service transformation. This integrated business approach aims to achieve optimal efficiencies and cost reductions at every point in the purchasing and supply stream, from the supplier's supplier to the customer, through disposal. During 2003, Supply Management succeeded in achieving its business objectives and realized more than $469 million, including $84 million of capital, in cost reductions, cost avoidance, and revenue generation benefits while gaining new efficiencies. Since 2000, cumulative


































SCM cost avoidance, cost reductions, and revenue generation benefits exceed $700 million, including $145 million of capital.

     This year, Supply Management achieved greater cost efficiencies and quality management by centralizing purchasing activities, aggregating requirements to leverage volume, reducing the supplier base, instituting standardized requirements based on historic demand, implementing a Postal Service-wide paperless requisitioning system, increasing the number of electronic catalogs within eBuy, and participating in strategic partnerships that draw upon specific expertise and capabilities of both the Postal Service and its suppliers.

a. Supply Chain Management

     To achieve the Postal Service's business goals, SCM depends upon close interaction among end users, buyers, and suppliers with a focus on creating long-term contracts and partnerships, as well as ongoing analysis and improvement of operating and administrative processes and costs. To manage these

Chapter 1
Compliance with Statutory Policies Introduction
  1. Fundamental Service to the People
  2. The Workforce
  3. Service to Small or Rural Communities
  4. Postal Cost Apportionment and Postal Ratemaking Developments
  5. Transportation Policies
  6. Postal Service Facilities, Equipment, and Supplies
Chapter 2 Postal Operations

Chapter 3 Financial Highlights

Chapter 4 2003 Performance Report and Preliminary 2005 Annual Performance Plan