Whether a cancelled spec is still being bought as if current from NSN

Situation

NSN demand-and-backorder extract arrived with UCAs older than the local policy cap for repair-vs-buy decision support lead. That is a Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence decision on a cancelled spec is in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources.

Decision

Repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using NSN demand-and-backorder extract after UCAs older than the local policy cap.

Hypotheses to test

• UCAs older than the local policy cap is noise around an already-controlled Depot Procurement Intelligence process in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources, given NSN demand-and-backorder extract.
• UCAs older than the local policy cap is the event in NSN demand-and-backorder extract that forces Fund and move materiel for repair-vs-buy decision support lead under Defense Sustainment.
• NSN demand-and-backorder extract shows a one-file miss after UCAs older than the local policy cap, not a Depot Procurement Intelligence program failure.
• NSN demand-and-backorder extract cannot decide a cancelled spec is yet after UCAs older than the local policy cap; hold is the only Defense Sustainment close an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources can defend.

Analysis required

• Test whether the shortfall is materiel, maintenance posting, or a bad count.
• Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in NSN demand-and-backorder extract.
• Quantify mission impact if a cancelled spec is is deferred one cycle in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources.
• For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read NSN demand-and-backorder extract against UCAs older than the local policy cap and write the one fact that would move a cancelled spec is for repair-vs-buy decision support lead.

Recommendation

Choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold on this Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence packet (NSN demand-and-backorder extract after UCAs older than the local policy cap). The follow-on Depot Procurement Intelligence action is what repair-vs-buy decision support lead does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.