Single Stock Fund (SSF) represents one of the most far-reaching changes to the Army logistics processes in recent memory. At Milestone 1&2, the Army Materiel Command (AMC), as the National Manager, is capitalizing stocks previously maintained in both installation retail stock funded (RSF) accounts and Operations & Maintenance (O&M) accounts. At Milestone 3, SSF was extended down to the divisional and non-divisional authorized stockage list (ASL) level. As a result, SSF is changing the way the Army operates at every Army installation, every Corps and Division Support Command, and every AMC Integrated Materiel Management Center (IMMC).

SSF Business Rules provide the overall framework for understanding SSF impacts within functional areas and at specific milestone events. The main SSF characteristics are a single point of sale, a single credit process, movement toward an integrated requirements determination and execution process, and movement toward National maintenance operations. The SSF business rules provide the vehicle for communicating the associated implementing procedures.

The Single Point of Sale is defined as the point at which a consumer-funded requisition is satisfied by a nationally controlled AWCF-SMA account. The current RSF and Wholesale Stock Fund (WSF) points of sale are being eliminated to create a single point of sale. Consumer-funded requisitions are obligated upon submission to the AWCF SARSS-1. Billing occurs after an AWCF-SMA account issues the item and this point of sale could be in one of two places. If the item is stocked locally, the supporting AWCF-SMA SARSS-1 account will issue it to the O&M customer. If the item is not stocked locally, then the wholesale source of supply (Commodity Command Standard System/CCSS or non-Army organization) will issue the item.

Credit from the AWCF-SMA to the consumer-funded activity will be based on the new Army credit policy, which went into effect on 1 October 2000. IMMCs are responsible for projecting annual credit rates for AMI on an NSN-by-NSN basis. Credit will be granted at the point of materiel turn-in (serviceable and unserviceable) from the consumer-funded activity to the supporting AWCF-SMA activity. These credit rates are stabilized, annualized in the year of execution, and predictable.

For MS 1&2, the integrated requirements determination and execution process will occur when AWCF-SMA requirements are forwarded from installation (AWCF-SMA SARSS-1) to the National level to be consolidated with other worldwide requirements. Shortages to requirements are computed based on asset information (visibility) from all AWCF-SMA locations. Supply decisions will routinely include stocks located at all forward storage AWCF-SMA locations. Stock replenishment for AWCF-SMA stockage locations will be made on a non-reimbursable basis.

All AWCF-SMA SARSS-1 sites will continue to manage the stock and release assets to customers on the same installation and using lateral redistribution. AMC will maintain status of AWCF SARSS-1s in CCSS. NAMI within the SSF will only be redistributed by exception to ensure the AWCF-SMA does not incur non-reimbursable costs associated with moving NAMI between locations.

SARSS calculates the requisition objective and retention limit for AWCF-SMA SARSS-1 sites and passes the information to CCSS. Replenishments will occur based upon a “pull system” from SARSS. This means that AWCF-SMA accounts in SARSS will be replenished only when the reorder point is reached. The AWCF-SMA SARSS-1 account will generate a replenishment requisition with a non-reimbursable fund code. Visibility of those assets will be achieved by posting the asset balance files in CCSS. Asset balances will be updated at the end of each day using AMC L8A inventory processes. Updated assets positions will improve accuracy in identifying procurement offsets.

Department of the Army Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics (DA ODCSLOG) Message, dated 1406232 July, Subject: National Maintenance Program, announced the movement to NMM operations. The basis of the NMM business practice is the former Integrated Sustainment Maintenance (ISM) management structure and procedures as described in the ISM Business Process Manual. This program calls for a new strategy to move to a centrally coordinated and controlled repair based logistics system.

The NMM will receive requirements from the IMMC and workload General Support (GS) component repair based on a National need. Based on the repair requirement and in conjunction with MACOMs, IMMCs, and installations, the NMM will determine where GS component repair will be performed. Inherent in this determination process is the knowledge of installation capacity and capability and the “best value” cost to the Army. IMMCs will reimburse installations to pay for labor and parts used in support of the repair program. Repaired items will then be stocked at repairing installation’s AWCF SSA for future distribution. Inherent in this determination process is the knowledge of installation capacity and capability and the “best value” cost to the Army.

Also changing in the movement to NMM is the repair standard. Under SSF, repair is performed for return to stock rather than repair and return to owning organization. Under the NMP, items repaired and returned to stock will be repaired by an approved national maintenance provider (e.g., organic depot contractor facility, or below depot maintenance activity) to an overhaul standard. In essence the program will return the item to a like new condition with an expected life. For this reason, repair under the NMM will be performed in accordance with a Statement of Work generated by the responsible IMMC. This process creates efficiency in the army’s logistics systems, revolutionizing the way the army does its logistics.

Complements of Army Materiel Command’s (AMC) Integrated Materiel Management Center (IMMC) of Single Stock Fund