Description
DPAS's Warehouse / Materiel Mgmt modules currently do not report electronically to a Component or National SA/LW registry. The Navy Registry located at CRANE, IN was not accepting electronic transactions, but is willing to consider an electronic feed based upon transactions that are processed.
The DPAS PA Module currently interfaces with the Army Component / National Registry via it's UIT Interface with LOGSA, but it does not currently support the SA/LW accounted for within the Warehouse module.
With USSOCOM looking to utilize the Warehouse module for weapons inventory and with SPECWARCOM migrating its weapons accountability to the Warehouse module (from SWALIS), there is a need to automate the reporting / reconciliation process to reduce the level of effort to maintain the registry and improve the overall reporting and speed I.E. perform the reporting using the actual transactions processed within the inventory system vs. manual documents that are generated by hand often times.
Recommended
Automate the SA/LW reporting for warehouse actions to the Navy Component Registry (P64).
All receipts, issues, gains, and losses will be reported via the DLMS140A transaction set.
Inventory adjustments (Stock Nbr / Serial Nbr changes) will be reported via the DLMS 888A transaction set.
The implementation must be accomplished in a way that DPAS can accept registry 'transaction rejects' from the component registry (transactions that were sent to the registry for processing which were not accepted.
The design should permit the user take the necessary corrective action, and resubmit the transaction along with simultaneously correcting the user record in DPAS.
This SCR also includes the requirement to be able to conduct reconciliations with the component SA/LW registry, and respond to registry follow-ups.
Mission Critical
This SCR is considered critical for the successful implementation of DPAS. With USSOCOM planning to use the Materiel Mgmt/Warehousing modules to manage the wholesale inventory of weapons and related accessories that are subject to registry reporting, the level of effort to perform this manually is cost and resource prohibitive.
Benefits
Automating this process will improve reporting accuracy, and reduce the cost of reporting to the federal government. Utilizing standard DLMS transactions should enable this interface to be used to feed the other component registries (Army & Air Force), assuming they accept DAAS style transactions.
Users
The affected users are likely Navy, Marine Corps, and USSOCOM and their associated organizations report their SA/LW reportable items via the Navy Registry. With validation/testing, the use of this capability could be expanded to other Service Registries.
