Reusable Container Worldwide Warehouse (RECON) Tool

​The Reusable Container Worldwide Warehouse (RECON) Tool is an Air Force packaging tool which augments the Air Force Reusable Container Program. RECON is designed to control packaging costs and promote efficiencies while maintaining high levels of asset protection during Packaging, Handling, Storage (PHS&T). Additionally, RECON promotes conservation, reuse, and reclamation of reusable containers in the Air Force domain vice disposal/waste stream. RECON bolsters packaging operations by cross-leveling excess reusable containers and/or packaging materials at base-level, and providing worldwide visibility for possible redistribution to units or other MAJCOM activities that need them. See also the Special Packaging Instructions Retrieval & Exchange (SPIRES) Tool 

Note: CAC required for access.

See also:

• Joint “Packaging of Material” Regulation (Army Regulation 700-15/ NAVSUPINST 4030.28E /AFJMAN 24-206 /MCO 4030.33E /DLAR 4145.7)http://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/r700_15.pdf 
  
• MIL-STD-2073-1E  Standard Practice for Military Packaging  http://quicksearch.dla.mil/qsDocDetails.aspx?ident_number=37232
• See Also the Container Design Retrieval System (CDRS) Tool https://www.dau.mil/tools/wft/Container-Design-and-Retrieval-System-(CDRS)
  

Processes Supported

• Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Departments Associated

• Air Force

Integrated Product Support Elements Addressed

• Packaging, Handling, Storage, & Transportation (PHS&T)

Disclaimer
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