DETECT AND SUPPRESS

28 March 2018

The Resource Protection Department of KAMAZ detected thieveries in the course of a regular audit.

A batch of 120 batteries (60 right and 60 left ones) was not delivered from the warehouse of the logistics center (LC) to the shop of the engine plant. In the course of the audit, the experts of the Resource Protection Department detected a thievery. As it turned out, there were several contributing factors. The batteries are purchased aggregates. It turned out that by acceptance from a supplier boxes are unsealed at random, and, according to the auditors, even this can lead to risks of short-deliveries, and subsequently to inability to lay claims to the supplier. Inventories and documents for them are handed by warehouse workers to a loader operator who is employed at the engine plant. And, being a person responsible for delivery of parts, he puts no signatures to documents. It is not necessarily right that responsible workers of the shop accept the inventories right after they are off-loaded at the plant. Besides, requisition notes signed by the shop workers, for their part, return to the warehouse with delays. It appears that nobody is responsible financially for preservation of inventories from the moment inventories are handed over to a loader operator to the moment requisition notes are signed by a shop worker. As a result, the chain resulted in a thievery.

The detected fact of short-delivery of batteries obliged to do a surprise spot inventory count at the warehouse of the logistics center. However, this was done only three months after. A shortage was almost for one million rubles. As evidenced by the Central Inventory Commission, it was partially paid off.

According to the audit results, the LC in cooperation with the engine plant framed a plan to rectify violations discovered, and it's controlled by the Resource Protection Department now. Junior and middle managers were reprimanded. Besides, those responsible of the LC undertook a commitment to pay off the short-delivery according to a schedule. According to Albert Valiullin, Director of the Resource Protection Department, inventory preservation should be the focus of attention. "Almost each KAMAZ worker is a financially liable person, and equally important is availability of individual and collective agreements of financial responsibility," noted Valiullin. "The employees should realize it: any illegal action will undoubtedly be detected, the guilty will be brought to justice."

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