Integrated Product Support (IPS) Element - Supply Support

Integrated Product Support (IPS) Element - Supply Support [Suggest Change]

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Primary Functional Area : Life Cycle Logistics

Definition [Suggest Change]

Supply Support identifies, plans for, resources, and implements 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 Total Ownership Cost (TOC).

General Information/Narrative [Suggest Change]

The objective of the Supply Support IPS Element is to identify, plan for, 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 Total Ownership Cost (TOC). (Source: DoD Product Support Manager (PSM) Guidebook, Appendix A)


Supply support consists of the management actions, procedures and techniques necessary to acquire, catalog, receive, store, transfer, issue and dispose of spares, repair parts, and supplies. Supply support includes provisioning for initial support, as well as acquiring, distributing, and replenishing inventories as reflected in the supply chain management strategy. Proper supply support management results in having all the right spares, repair parts, and all classes of supplies available, in the right quantities, at the right place, at the right time, at the right price.


Key Supply Support IPS Element activities according to Appendix A of the DoD Product Support Manager (PSM) Guidebook and the DoD Integrated Product Support (IPS) Element Guidebook include:


  • Initial provisioning
  • Routine replenishment management, including buffer and safety stock management
  • Demand forecasting and Readiness Based Sparing (RBS)
  • Bills of Material management and maintenance
  • Support equipment initial provisioning
  • Support equipment routine replenishment provisioning
  • Reparable, repair part, and consumable procurement
  • Cataloging
    • Expendability, recoverability, Reparability Category (ERRC) Codes
    • National Stock Numbering (NSN)
    • Part numbering
    • Source, Maintenance & Recoverability (SMR) Codes)
  • Receiving
  • Storage
  • Inventory management
  • Transfer
  • Issuance
  • Redistribution
  • Disposal
  • Material pricing
  • Total Asset Visibility/AIT
    • Serialized Item Management (SIM)
    • Item Unique Identification (IUID)
    • Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
  • Shelf Life Management
  • Buffer Management
  • Warranty Management
  • Supply Chain Assurance
    • Counterfeit material prevention
    • Malicious hardware and software prevention
    • Unauthorized technology transfer prevention
  • Supply Chain Management (SCM)
    • SCOR Model (Plan, Source, Make/Repair, Deliver, Return)
  • Classes of Supply
  • PICA/SICA
  • National Inventory Management Strategy (NIMS)
  • Strategic Sourcing/Commodity Councils
  • Joint Supply Chain Architecture (JSCA)
  • Mean Down Time (MDT) Sustainment Outcome Metric

The primary purpose of DoD supply chain management is to provide effective and efficient end-to-end customer service to meet operational requirements. To supply materiel to DoD units throughout the world, the DoD Components maintain a supply chain consisting of:


  • weapon system support contractors
  • retail supply activities
  • distribution depots
  • transportation channels including contracted carriers
  • wholesale integrated materiel managers (IMMs)
  • weapon system product support integrators
  • commercial distributors and suppliers including:
    • Manufacturers
    • commercial and organic maintenance facilities
    • other logistics activities (e.g., engineering support activities, testing facilities, reutilization and marketing offices).

In support of DoD Supply Chain Strategies, Components shall:


  1. Structure materiel management to provide responsive, consistent, and reliable support to the warfighter during peacetime and war.
  2. Establish end-to-end processes focused on achieving warfighter readiness goals and meeting customer needs in the most efficient way possible within the bounds of acceptable risk, including security risk.
  3. Provide best-value materiel and services to support rapid power projection and operational sustainment of U.S. forces as required by the National Military Strategy.
  4. Use the supply chain operational reference processes of plan, source, make and maintain, deliver, and return as a framework for developing, improving, and conducting materiel management activities to satisfy customer support requirements as efficiently as possible.
  5. Consider all life-cycle costs associated with materiel management, including acquiring, distributing, transporting, storing, maintaining, repairing, protecting, and disposing.
  6. Identify a dominant supply chain strategy from supply chain characteristics and apply the strategy consistently for a given type of item, commodity, class, customer, or supplier.
  7. Employ risk management strategies to identify and assess potential supply chain disruptions.
  8. Reduce exposure to potential disruptions, monitor the supply chain to provide as much early warning as possible, and mitigate the effects of problems that do occur.
  9. Will maintain records and documentation for purposes of audits prescribed in this manual.
  10. Protect Defense missions by implementing materiel management procedures that prevent the introduction of unauthorized or counterfeit materiel.

For more information about Supply Chains, including processes and business processes, go to DoDM 4140.01-V1, February 10 2014.

Defense Acquisition Guidebook, Policies, Directives, Regulations, Laws [Suggest Change]

Best Practices, Lessons Learned, Stories, Guides, Handbooks, Templates, Examples, Tools [Suggest Change]

Training Resources [Suggest Change]

  • Product Support Tools and Training
  • LOG 101 Acquisition Logistics Fundamentals
  • LOG 102 Fundamentals of System Sustainment Management'
  • LOG 200 Product Support Strategy Development, Part A
  • LOG 201 Product Support Strategy Development, Part B
  • LOG 204 Configuration Management
  • LOG 206 Intermediate Systems Sustainment Management
  • LOG 211 Supportability Analysis
  • LOG 215 Technical Data Management
  • LOG 235 Performance-Based Logistics
  • LOG 340 Life Cycle Product Support
  • LOG 350 Enterprise Life Cycle Logistics Management
  • CLL 001 Life Cycle Management and Sustainment Metrics
  • CLL 002 DLA Support to the PM
  • CLL 005 Developing a Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP)
  • CLL 006 Public-Private Partnerships
  • CLL 007 Lead-free Electronics Impact on DoD Programs
  • CLL 008 Designing for Supportability in DoD Systems
  • CLL 011 Performance Based Logistics
  • CLL 012 Supportability Analysis 
  • CLL 013 DoD Packaging
  • CLL 015 Business Case Analysis (BCA)
  • CLL 016 Joint Logistics 
  • CLL 020 Independent Logistics Assessment
  • CLL 021 Product Support Arrangements
  • CLL 031 PBL Contracting Strategies
  • CLL 032 Preventing Counterfeit Parts from Entering the DoD System
  • CLL 035 Operating and Support Cost Estimating for the PSM 
  • CLL 036 Product Support Manager
  • CLL 037 DoD Supply Chain Fundamentals
  • CLL 038 Provisioning and Cataloging
  • CLL 046 The Twelve Integrated Product Support Elements
  • CLL 051 System Retirement, Materiel Disposition, Reclamation, Demilitarization and Disposal
  • CLL 057 Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) Fundamentals
  • CLL 058 Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) Implementation
  • CLL 059 Sustaining Engineering
  • CLL 062 DoD Counterfeit Prevention Awareness
  • CLL 120 Shelf Life
  • CLM 017 Risk Management
  • CLM 024 Contracting Overview
  • CLM 031 Improved Statement of Work (SOW)
  • CLM 200 Item Unique Identification
  • CLM 201 Serialized Item Management

A complete list of DAU training resources can be found inside the DAU iCatalog. Courses are classified as Training Courses (Regular (certification and assignment specific) training courses), Continuous Learning, and Targeted Training (Alternate means to meet training requirements).

Communities [Suggest Change]

Item Unique Identification
Life Cycle Logistics
Performance Based Logistics
Production, Quality & Manufacturing
Program Management
Systems Engineering

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Cataloging
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Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) and Lean Six Sigma (LSS)
Counterfeit Parts
Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS)
Disposal of Contractor Inventory
Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements
Interim Contractor Support (ICS)
Item Unique Identification (IUID)
Level of Repair Analysis (LORA)
Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP)
Logistics Response Time (LRT)
Materiel Availability
Materiel Fielding Plan (MFP)
Mean Downtime (MDT)
Modification Management
Obsolescence Management
Operating and Support Cost
Operations & Sustainment
Primary Inventory Control Activity (PICA) and Secondary Inventory Control Activity (SICA)
Readiness-Based Sparing
Readiness-Based Sparing (RBS)
RFID - Radio Frequency Identification
RFID - Tagging Principles
Suitability
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)
Supply Classes
Sustainability
Sustainment Maturity Levels (SML)
Total Package Fielding
Integrated Product Support (IPS) Element - Manpower & Personnel
Provisioning
Integrated Product Support (IPS) Element - Packaging, Handling, Storage, and Transportation (PHS&T)
Funding Product Support Strategies

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