LESSON 3
FOLLOWING THROUGH ON REQUISITIONS FOR REPAIR PARTS AND SUPPLIES
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GENERAL
After requisitioning repair parts and supplies, there are a variety of follow-up
activities you could perform. This lesson covers requesting a supply status, posting status
cards received, requesting cancellation of supplies, receiving and issuing repair parts, and
packing medical and dental equipment for movement.
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SUPPLY STATUS
Supply status is a notice of a supply decision, on a specific supply request, made
by the supplier. You receive supply status from the SSA on status cards and/or listings.
Supply status is in the form of status codes. Supply sources use these codes to pass data
about requisitions to the requesters. Refer to Extract 2, Table C-1, pages Extract 2-4
through 2-6, for a listing of status/rejection codes.
a. Supply Status Types.
(1) Shipment status. Shipment status is advice of an estimated or actual
shipment date.
(2) Exception supply status. An exception status results from any of the
supply decisions listed below made by a supplier.
(a)
Substitutions of an authorized stock number.
(b)
Change of unit of issue or quantity.
(c) Backorder is established when materiel cannot be sent by the
standard delivery date (SDD) or RDD.
(d)
Procurement of materiel for direct shipment from vendor to customer.
(e)
Partial supply action on a requisitioned quantity.
(f)
Requisition rejected (returned without action) for a certain reason.
(g)
Cancellation confirmed.
(h) Events indicating that materiel may not be delivered to the requester
within the set time frame for the assigned priority or the RDD.
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