COORDINATED SHIPBOARD ALLOWANCE LIST OPTIMIZATION: CONFIGURATION DATA MANAGEMENT
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Authors
Finley, Benjamin F., III
McLaury, Benjamin D.
Subjects
Coordinated Shipboard Allowance List
COSAL
Naval Sea Systems Command
NAVSEA
Naval Supply Systems Command
NAVSUP
operational availability
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Summary of Effective Allowance Parts List
SOEAPL
ship’s force
S/F
information systems
IS
type command
TYCOM
Regional Maintenance Center
RMC
Configuration Data Managers Database-Open Architecture
CDMD-OA
Organizational Maintenance Management System-Next Generation
OMMS-NG
MBPS
Model Based Product Support
feedback reports
FBR
COSAL
Naval Sea Systems Command
NAVSEA
Naval Supply Systems Command
NAVSUP
operational availability
Ao
Summary of Effective Allowance Parts List
SOEAPL
ship’s force
S/F
information systems
IS
type command
TYCOM
Regional Maintenance Center
RMC
Configuration Data Managers Database-Open Architecture
CDMD-OA
Organizational Maintenance Management System-Next Generation
OMMS-NG
MBPS
Model Based Product Support
feedback reports
FBR
Advisors
Aros, Susan K.
Frakes, Dale
Date of Issue
2024-12
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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The Naval Supply System Command’s Allowancing Department sponsored the thesis topic of Coordinated Shipboard Allowance List (COSAL) optimization. The problem identified was the Fleet’s requisition metrics—specifically, gross, net, and allowance effectiveness metrics—were below stated goals over an eighteen-month period. These metrics measure the ability of the ships’ supply storerooms to issue parts from onboard stocks to work centers. To narrow the topic, the researchers—who completed a multi-disciplinary curriculum in Logistics Information Systems (IS)—focused myopically on configuration data management and how COSAL discrepancies originate. The researchers conducted interviews and literature reviews of Naval Sea Systems Command and Naval Supply System Command publications to create process maps documenting the COSAL creation and its management processes. Next, the researchers utilized fishbone diagrams to help organize cause and effect analysis. The researchers examined configuration data management through the lens of Business-IT alignment theory as well as business process management principles. The data and research lead to two primary conclusions: Auditing of configuration data throughout a ship’s life-cycle is insufficient, and feedback report procedures are not uniformly enforced or incentivized.
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