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The Section would be headed by a Chief Property Management Officer (P-4), the incumbent of which would report to the Chief of Integrated Support Services and would be responsible for: the management and maintenance of the Mission’s electronic assets control system; inventory management and the reduction of inventory levels; the disposal of written-off assets; the provision of specialist inventory and supply-chain management advice to self-accounting units; the continual review of store-holder inventories at all levels within the Mission; the modernization of warehousing standards and practices; reduction of inventory processing times; the collection, collation and analysis of stock holdings and stock consumption data; maintaining databases; and conducting contingent-owned equipment arrival and operational readiness as well as periodical and repatriation inspections and verifications.

The GICHD added that the destruction method to be used by Ukraine is safe, affordable, easily upgradable to national emission standards, simple to maintain and operate, built using readily-available materials and capable of sustaining high rates of output.

The Advisory Committee was informed that this approach provides the following benefits: (a) significant worldwide discounts for all locations; (b) speedier diagnosis of problems, thereby minimizing unplanned downtime of the Organization’s networks; and (c) interoperability, which reduces finger-pointing among multiple vendors when incidents occur and also allows implementation of common end-user procedures for telephones at all offices.