This begins our second year of the newsletter! We'd love to hear what you think about it and what we can add to keep you in the loop.
NEWS: Check out the Active Approved DLMS Change page on our website to see the newest search functionality. Users can now search for specific “high interest/priority” DLMS changes with just one click! Categories are: Unique Item Tracking, Audit/Material Weakness, G-Invoicing, SLOA, and SFIS. These “high interest/priority” changes have been included in the new Logistics Information Technology Policy Compliance Assessment Tool (LOGIT-PCAT) and must be implemented to help achieve the Department’s audit goals. See it here (look for the ADC Quick Searches box).
UPCOMING TRAINING EVENTS: See what’s next, downloads, and sign-ups here.
UPCOMING MEETING SCHEDULES & CONTACT INFO: Learn more about the teams and meetings here.
APPROVED DLMS CHANGES (ADC) IN AUGUST:
Approved Change 1472: Procedures for Correcting Adjusting Ownership Changes After Goods Receipts. At a minimum, DoD Component using DLA as a storage activity must review and take steps to improve existing processes, understand the updated procedures, and test implementation of transaction coding.
Approved Change 1507: DLMS 870S Implementation Convention Reference Segment Clarification (Supply). Corrected an omission. No action required.
GAMECHANGER: ADC searchable library here (CAC-restricted).
PROPOSED DLMS CHANGES (PDCs): See all PDCs in development, coordination, or on hold by clicking here.
IMPLEMENTED/WITHDRAWN DLMS CHANGES: We have been working hard to clean out some of our older ADCs to make implementation clearer. Find those documents here.
SOME ACTIVITIES FROM AUGUST:
Supply Chain Data Foundation Meeting: DEDSO supported the DoD-wide kick-off meeting to establish the way forward in the getting our arms around the vast library of logistics data sources.
Army Enterprise Systems Integration Program (AESIP) Programming: The Supply Team and Defense Automatic Addressing System (DAAS) received a request to support the AESIP programming team’s implementation of the DLMS Acquisition and Valuation 536R transaction set.
DLMS Data Cleansing Efforts: Our Data Team identified and updated approximately 2,000 individual changes to the 59 active DLMS transaction sets to improve the clarity, usability, and implementation of DLMS transactions.
DoDAAD Contract Expiration Reporting: Our Department of Defense Activity Address Activity (DoDAAD) Team met with 37 DoDAAD Central Service Points (CSP) monitors to discuss how to use the recently created Contract Expiration Report that is automatically generated on the first of each month and emailed to CSPs.
PDREP SDR Logic Update: The Supply Discrepancy Report (SDR) Team coordinated testing between the DLA Distribution and Navy Product Data Reporting and Evaluation Program (PDREP) teams.