What I did in the Army
This reminds me of my time in the US Army back in the late 1960s. I was assigned to a second echelon electronics repair section of a training unit at Ft. Benning GA.
At the time policy dictated that our supply room have in stock exactly the number of each item as specified in some document or other. The supply room was subject to regular "surprise" audits and there would be hell to play if any of the prescribed quantities were off in either direction. (I put surprise in scare quotes because for some reason or other our supply sergeant always knew about the audits a day or two in advance.)
There were two consequences of this arrangement. The first was that we were never allowed to draw spares from the stock room. If we needed so much as a new fuse we had to fill out a complicated legal size multi-copy form and send it up to Brigade. The item needing repair would sit on the shelf until a week or so later when the single fuse would arrive packed in military grade multi-layered moisture and mold resistant packaging. If the fuse blew again when we tried it we went back to step one.
The other fun bit was that the stock room had to carry excess inventory of some items to keep the unit running at all. When word of the audit came down two guys were s=dispatched to the motor pool to check out a large truck. All the excess inventory would be piled into the truck along with a case of C rations. The drivers were instructed to disappear into the boonies for a day or two until the audit was over. Great fun!