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920A Property Accounting Technician

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Overview

A Property Accounting Technician administers Army supply systems, maintains inventory control, and supervises purchasing, storage, record keeping, and stock control. This technician manages property accounts and supply budgets, forecasts requirements, establishes procedures for handling supplies, and advises supported commanders on supply matters.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Supply budget development and administration
  • Supply requirements forecasting and planning
  • Requisition, receipt, storage, and issue procedures
  • Supply, maintenance, and transportation coordination

Civilian Career Paths

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Supply Chain Managers

Managing Army supply systems, forecasting requirements, controlling inventory, and coordinating with maintenance and transportation directly overlap with civilian supply chain operations.

How to prepare: Build a sample materials plan in Microsoft Excel that connects forecast demand, inventory levels, purchasing needs, and storage capacity.

What the civilian work involves
  • Manage activities related to strategic or tactical purchasing, material requirements planning, controlling inventory, warehousing, or receiving.
  • Define performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of supply chain factors, such as product cost or quality.
  • Develop procedures for coordination of supply chain management with other functional areas, such as sales, marketing, finance, production, or quality assurance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Purchasing Managers

Supervising purchasing procedures, administering supply budgets, and establishing requisition procedures provide a foundation for civilian purchasing management.

How to prepare: Practice reviewing a sample commercial purchase order and contract against a purchasing policy, documenting discrepancies and proposed corrections.

What the civilian work involves
  • Develop and implement purchasing and contract management instructions, policies, and procedures.
  • Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in buying, selling, and distributing materials, equipment, machinery, and supplies.
  • Review purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 920A Property Accounting Technician

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 920A (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank warrant_officer, authority codeType warrant_officer

    Supports: Supply budget development and administration, Supply requirements forecasting and planning, Requisition, receipt, storage, and issue procedures, Supply, maintenance, and transportation coordination, Supply Chain Managers (O*NET 11-3071.04), Purchasing Managers (O*NET 11-3061.00)

  2. O*NET: Supply Chain Managers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Supply Chain Managers (O*NET 11-3071.04)

  3. O*NET: Purchasing Managers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Purchasing Managers (O*NET 11-3061.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 920A

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