DLA Required Changes for VA PPE Mgmt

Warehouse

DLA

Done

Submitted: 05 Nov 2020

Description
DLA is implementing DPAS Warehouse module to support receipt, storage, and issue of the Veterans Administration's PPE.
Currently there is no electronic communication of Requisitions / MROs. 
DLA does have a requirement to route the MRO to a TMO to have the materiel shipped (DLMS ADC 316 Functionality). 
It appears that the ADC 316 functionality within DPAS only works with external ICPs. 
The ADC 316 functionality is between the TMO and Warehouse and should not be dependent upon an ICP being associated to the Warehouse / Owning DoDAAC. 
There also appears to be an issue with the printing of Special Instructions. 
The allowable characters are insufficient, and it appears they only print when the continuation page is printed which is only printed when the MRO is for serialized assets and the Qty > 1. 
Special Instructions should print for all MROs when entered.
The TMO DLMS 945A needs to be reviewed to determine if all of the data is being extracted related to the shipment. 
This information needs to be extracted and included in the DLMS 945A to the ICP and 856S to the customer.

Recommended

1.   Review current ADC316 TMO functionality to ensure it functions with all MROs that contain a valid TMO RIC / Transportation Account Code (TAC).
2.   Validate what fields are required to generate a 940R to a TMO.  Add BRs for fields that are currently not marked as required when a TMO is present to make them required.
3. Increase the number of allowed characters for special instructions, and ensure they print when present (either add to main 1348 to the right of block 27, or always print the continuation page when special instructions are present). DLA desires the capability for 4 lines with each line having 25 characters.
4. Review the inbound DLMS 945A to ensure DPAS is extracting all of the shipping elements and including them in the DLMS 945A to the ICP as well as the 856S.

Mission Critical
Yes. Without this change, DLA will need to delay the implementation of DPAS for managing the Veterans Administration PPE.  Estimated Required Delivery date of this functionality is 12/1/2020.

Benefits
Accurate accounting and reporting for materiel is mandatory.

Users
These changes will improve Warehouse for all users who use this functionality. 

Completed – Release 2021.1 – 5 February 2021