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DEFINITION
Supply Support includes all the management actions, procedures, and techniques used to determine requirements to acquire, catalog, receive, store, transfer, issue and dispose of secondary items. 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.
GENERAL INFORMATION/NARRATIVE
The objective of supply support is to identify, plan, resource and implement management actions to acquire repair parts, spares, and all classes of supply to ensure the best equipment / capability is available to support the warfighter or maintainer when it is needed at the lowest possible LCC.
The process includes provisioning for initial support, as well as acquiring, distributing, and replenishing inventories. This encompasses provisioning for initial support and all end-to-end replenishment supply support and supply pipeline plans and activities. Supply support must be distribution based rather than inventory based and proactive rather than reactive.
POLICIES, DIRECTIVES, REGULATIONS, LAWS
Army Regulation 700-127, Integrated Logistics Support
Best Practices, Lessons Learned, Stories, Guides, Handbooks, Templates, Example Tools, Communities of Practice, LEC Tools
The Systems Planning and Requirements Software (SYSPARS) can be used to accomplish tasks discussed in this article. Specifically, SYSPARS can be used to create a Diminishing Manufacturing Sources & Materiel Shortages plan. SYSPARS assists users with the creation of acquisition documents throughout the life cycle of a program. SYSPARS can be used to create required plans beginning as early as the System Engineering Plan and Acquisition Strategy, and continue to assist with various required plans through the end of the program's life up to and including a Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Materiel Shortages (DMSMS) Plan. SYSPARS is free, and may be obtained by visiting the following hyperlink: https://www.logsa.army.mil/lec/syspars/
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 (LPD) standard defined by GEIA-STD-0007. PowerLOG also supports legacy data standards such as MIL-STD-1552 (PMR). 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/.
The Cost Analysis Strategy Assessment (CASA) Life-Cycle Cost Estimating Software uses an engineering cost model to estimate total cost of ownership based on RDT&E, Acquisition/Procurement, O&S, and Disposal activities. In addition to life-cycle cost estimation, CASA can perform trade-offs, production rate, warranty effectiveness, and other economic analyses. CASA is distributed freely to all US personnel. Request from foreign nations for CASA and associated training and technical support are handled through a Foreign Military Sales Case (FMS). CASA can be obtained here: https://www.logsa.army.mil/lec/casa/
Post Fielding Support Analysis (PFSA) can be useful in accomplishing the tasks discussed in this article. PFSA uses data captured in field performance databases such as the Logistics Information Warehouse, acquisition databases, and other user-owned data sources. PFSA assists users by using statistical methods for tracking logistics throughout the life cycle. This data is used to create an analysis capability for Army PEO/PMs, LCMCs and field organizations to better manage and solve logistics based readiness problems. PFSA is a free tool offered to the Army, it can be obtained by visiting: https://www.logsa.army.mil/lec/pfsa.
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