Assess whether an alternate source is technically qualified (fb0f97)

SITUATION A contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data cannot treat a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock as incidental context on NSN demand-and-backorder extract. DLA item manager's data counterpart must close an alternate source is from that extract under Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence.

DECISION DLA item manager's data counterpart in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using NSN demand-and-backorder extract after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. The population in NSN demand-and-backorder extract is the one a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock named, so Fund and move materiel follows for this Depot Procurement Intelligence file. 2. The population in NSN demand-and-backorder extract is adjacent only to a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock; Cannibalize or substitute is the honest Defense Sustainment call. 3. A contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data already contained a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock before NSN demand-and-backorder extract arrived; no new Depot Procurement Intelligence path. 4. Provenance on NSN demand-and-backorder extract after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock is broken; do not pick Fund and move materiel or Cannibalize or substitute yet.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Test whether the shortfall is materiel, maintenance posting, or a bad count. 2. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in NSN demand-and-backorder extract. 3. Quantify mission impact if an alternate source is is deferred one cycle in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read NSN demand-and-backorder extract against a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock and write the one fact that would move an alternate source is for DLA item manager's data counterpart.

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 a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock). The follow-on Depot Procurement Intelligence action is what DLA item manager's data counterpart does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on an alternate source is, then the evidence in NSN demand-and-backorder extract, then the action for DLA item manager's data counterpart - Hypothesis scorecard against NSN demand-and-backorder extract: supported / rejected / untestable - Depot Procurement Intelligence finding in NSN demand-and-backorder extract that a second reviewer can re-perform - Missing page in NSN demand-and-backorder extract after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock, if any