Improving Supply Management: The CALS Connection
Abstract
The Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support (CALS) program provides data management concepts and interchange standards that promote information sharing in digital form. CALS concepts can improve supply management processes and reduce costs by eliminating data exchange problems and providing timely access to information. Today with sequential processes, data are passed along with the task from function to function. The CALS concept shares digital data in a common data base allowing many tasks to be performed concurrently. As a result, throughput times are improved and flexibility is added so that the process can be modified as new information, like a design change, becomes available. This report examines the exchange of information between weapon system contractors and DoD when spare parts for new weapon systems are being provisioned and procured. The acquisition phase of weapon system support requires the transfer of information between a large number of contractors and DoD. The diversity of computer systems used by contractors and by Government activities has made information exchange extremely difficult to standardize. As a result, the introduction of CALS concepts can have its most dramatic impact during the acquisition phase of weapon system support.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA252214
Entities
People
- John Fitzpatrick
- Kenneth Lindstrom
- Larry Klapper
- Phil Clark
Organizations
- LMI