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Every day, thousands of requisitions flow through the military requisitioning pipeline. Although it is important to track requisitioned items in peacetime, war makes the need for tracking these items critical. Maintenance personnel need a query tool that indicates where critical parts can be found. They also need to know the transportation mode and expected delivery date of shipments. For requisitions that are rejected at the national inventory control point (NICP), maintenance personnel need to know the reason for the rejection and whom to contact for further details and options. Item managers at the NICP need to know when items are received by customers.
The Army Materiel Command Logistics Support Activity's (LOGSA's) Parts Tracker meets those needs at the tactical and strategic levels by providing the status of requisitions in the supply and transportation pipeline. This visibility is achieved by capturing and displaying data, including the location and date of each segment of a shipment from the time it originates at the source of supply through the military or commercial transportation pipeline to its receipt by the customer. The segments include source of supply, depot, consolidated containerization point, port, supply support activity, and customer receipt.
Parts Tracker provides a tracking capability...