Plan Repair Parts
Definition
Repair parts include kits, assemblies, and subassemblies that are required for maintenance support of materiel, and fall under Class IX of the Federal Supply Classification System. Provisioning is the process of ensuring the proper availability of spares and repair parts for a fielded system, and is reflected in the provisioning plan (PP).
General/Information/Narrative
The process of provisioning consists of all management actions, procedures, and techniques necessary to determine requirements to acquire, catalog, receive, store, transfer, issue and dispose of spares, repair parts, and supplies. This means having the right spares, repair parts, and supplies available, in the right quantities, at the right place, at the right time, at the right price. The process includes provisioning for initial support, as well as acquiring, distributing, and replenishing inventories.
The PP is essential in achieving a successful provisioning program. General planning and initial development of the PP will begin during the Materiel Solution Analysis phase (to include market survey for nondevelopmental items (NDI) of the EI or system). PP documents will be updated at each milestone decision point through the Technology Development, Engineering and Manufacturing Development and Low Rate Initial Production and Full Production phases of the acquisition cycle. The PP will have as its goal the readiness of a weapon system or end item. The design engineering for new acquisition end items, will consider the two-level maintenance concept with its objective of a reduced logistics footprint. The PP is summarized within the life-cycle sustainment plan (LCSP) and the Acquisition Strategy (AS).
Policies, Directives, Regulations, Laws
Army Regulation 700-127, Integrated Logistics Support
Army Regulation 700-18, Provisioning of U.S. Army Equipment
Best Practices, Lessons Learned, Stories, Guides, Handbooks, Templates, Example Tools, Communities of Practice, LEC Tools
The Support Items Validation (LSA-009) and the Parts Standardization Summary (LSA-010) directly support the planning for repair parts. PowerLOG is a logistics data management system developed to support the development, integration, and review of logistic product information throughout the acquisition life cycle. PowerLOG implements the Logistics Support Analysis Record (LSAR) requirements defined in MIL-STD-1388-2B as well as Logistics Product Data defined by GEIA-STD-0007. PowerLOG is available free to all Government agencies and their contractors and can be obtained by visiting: https://www.logsa.army.mil/lec/powerlog/.
The Computerized Optimization Model for Predicting and Analyzing Support Structures (COMPASS) is a system Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) modeling tool. LORA is the analytical methodology used to determine the maintenance repair levels where items should be removed and replaced; and ultimately repaired or discarded. COMPASS estimates the cost to repair or discard items at various maintenance levels, with contractor facilities included as a separate level. COMPASS optimizes both the maintenance and support to achieve your target operational availability (Ao). COMPASS can consider up to four levels of organic maintenance (supports Two-Level Maintenance studies), supply support, and contractor support. You can also use COMPASS output data as a source for developing the MAC and SMR codes. COMPASS is a free tool available to both DoD and contractors at: https://www.logsa.army.mil/lec/compass/.
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