AMSS Procedures Instructor: Spc Bragg

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AMSS ProceduresInstructor Spc Bragg
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References

• AR 700-138, 16 June 1993, Army Logistics
  Readiness and Sustainability, with the exception
  of "Table B-1".
• Materiel Condition Status Reporting System -
  Reportable Items List (Updated semi-annually).
• Unit Level Logistics System -- Ground (ULLS-G)
  End User Manual (EUM), 15 June 1996.

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What is ULLS?

• ULLS is a menu driven, real-time (non-batch)
  system which supports multiple con-concurrent
  users.
• ULLS contains basic access control for data
  security in database. Authorized users in ULLS-G
  are classed by DODAAC. In ULLS-A and ULLS-S4 the
  users are classed by UIC. All three baselines use
  a security system controlled by a user ID and
  password.

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What is ULLS? (Cont.)

• ULLS includes software to automate or replace
  the maintenance and supply documents and
  processes. Many of the processes produce reports,
  which are very useful for managing both the
  supply and the equipment maintenance functions of
  the unit.
• The ULLS system is mobile, and the current plan
  is that it will be taken with the units wherever
  they go.

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What is AMSS?

• The Commanders Guide for the Unit Level
  Logistics System-Ground identifies key AMSS
  reports that can be used to monitor readiness.
  These reports provide non-mission-capable
  information for reportable equipment, including
  systems and their associated subsystems. Unit
  personnel can run these reports any time during
  the report period at the unit level. Three of
  these reports can be rolled up to the battalion
  or brigade level. One of these reports--the
  Projection Report--displays projected FMC and NMC
  rates for all reportable equipment items in order
  to identify equipment that may not meet the DA
  goal for the period.

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What is AMSS (Cont.)

• Unit commanders should determine the frequency
  for generating AMSS reports and the positions
  responsible for reviewing such reports in their
  unit SOP for ULLS-G or in their maintenance SOP.
  Commanders should do the same for
  system-generated maintenance and supply reports.
  In doing so, commanders provide their ULLS-G
  operator with a guide that describes how often
  they need to produce each report and who should
  receive the report.

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Daily Reports

• Several AMSS reports are available to the user,
  daily. The Send AMSS Transactions to Higher Level
  can also be processed daily to provide battalion
  level reporting. The following procedure is used
  for selecting each report. The two most
  popular reports are

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Daily Reports (Cont.)

• Projection Report
• This can be run at any time and projects end of
  period readiness based upon data processed to
  date. This is what your readiness report will
  reflect if there are no other changes.

• Non-Mission Capable Report
• Provides the same information as the Backside
  2406.

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Running the AMSS

• The Army Material Status System (AMSS) The AMSS
  "End of Report Period" process will be run at the
  start of the 16th of the month if it is a
  business day, or the first business day following
  the 16th of the month. This report is run to
  capture the data ending on the 15th. This report
  contains data that units need to complete their
  monthly Unit Status Report (USR) and Readiness
  Reports. The Following steps spell out the proper
  sequence of events to accomplish the AMSS - "END
  OF REPORT PERIOD" process.

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Before Running AMSS

• Back-up your database
• This is the most important step. This ensures
  that if a problem arises that no data is lost.
  Backing up is mandatory for all shops to do on a
  daily basis.

• Verify Information Take time here to verify unit
  data. The reporting UIC must be the "AA" entity.
  For companies in a BN the reporting UIC is the BN
  UIC. Also verify the reporting date is correct.

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Verifying Information

• (1) From the main menu key in "F" and press
  enter.(2) Type "1" and press enter.(3) Select
  update and press enter.(4) Type the class IX
  DODAAC and press enter.(5) Type the Commanders
  password and press enter.(6) The system will
  show Unit Parameter Update screen.(7) Select
  Unit parameter.(8) Verify data and ensure that
  BN indicator is set to "N"

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End of Report Period Process

• (1) From the main menu select "N" and press
  enter. (2) Next select "2" and press enter. (3)
  The system will display the Send AMSS
  Transactions Higher screen. (4) Use the arrows
  keys and the spacebar to select the correct
  UIC(s). (5) The system will then display the
  device menu screen. (6) Select the right disk
  drive and press enter.

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End of Report Period Process (Cont.)

• (7) The system displays a prompt informing you
  of the required number of diskettes. (8) Insert
  the first disk and press enter. when this is
  complete remove the diskette and label it with
  the unit's UIC, name, file name, and "Send To
  Higher".

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Receive From Lower Process

• Units that have received information from lower
  must do this process
• (1) From the main menu select "N" and press
  enter.(2) Next select "3" and press enter. (3)
  The system will display the device menu. (4)
  Insert the first disk into the right drive.

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Receive From Lower Process (Cont.)

• (5) Select the appropriate disk drive and press
  enter. (6) Repeat the process until all "Send to
  Higher" diskettes have been entered. This is to
  include the parent unit. For example, the company
  and the detachment(s).

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Print Roll-up By UIC

• This process consolidates, by UIC, all
  reportable systems/subsystems and End Items that
  have accumulated an NMC time during the reporting
  period.

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Print Roll-up By UIC (Cont.)

• (1) From the AMSS options menu key in "1" and
  press enter.(2) The system will display the AMSS
  Rollup By UIC screen with the prompt   "Rollup
  By Reporting UIC (Y)es or (N)o." If Yes is
  selected, the report will consist of all
  reportable systems, subsystems and end items by
  EIC consolidated for the list shown.. If no is
  selected, the system will prepare individual unit
  reports for the selected UIC(s).

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NOTE

• The companies that have rolled up detachments
  and need to "Send to Higher" to report to a
  battalion headquarters will perform the "Send To
  Higher" process again. Repeat the processes in
  step (b), (c), and (d) above. The remaining units
  proceed to step (l) "End Of Report Period"
  process.

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Receive From Lower Level

• Units that have received information from lower
  must do this process.
• (1) From the main menu select "N" and press
  enter.(2) Next select "3" and press enter. (3)
  The system will display the device menu. (4)
  Insert the first disk into the right drive.(5)
  Select the appropriate disk drive and press
  enter. (6) Repeat the process until all Send to
  Higher diskettes have been entered. This is to
  include the parent unit. For example, the company
  and the detachment(s).

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Print Roll-Up By UIC

• This process consolidates, by UIC, all
  reportable systems/subsystems and End Items that
  have accumulated an NMC time during the reporting
  period.

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Print Roll-Up By UIC (Cont.)

• (1) From the AMSS options menu key in "1" and
  press enter.(2) The system will display the AMSS
  Rollup By UIC screen with the prompt   "Rollup
  By Reporting UIC (Y)es or (N)o." If Yes is
  selected, the report will consist of all
  reportable systems, subsystems and end items by
  EIC consolidated for the list shown.. If no is
  selected, the system will prepare individual unit
  reports for the selected UIC(s).

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NOTE

• Two (2) copies of the AMSS report "ROLL-UP BY
  UIC" will be forwarded one to each Bn or
  Separate (AA) units supply sergeant, one to the
  O-6 level command S-4 section.

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End of Report Period

• This process may be executed on or after the 16th
  of the month. It will save the appropriate data
  files from which the Materiel Status Report
  transaction files will be created. The process
  will also prepare the appropriate files for time
  accumulation for the next reporting period and
  usage data. Finally, the process will place the
  current period end date in the transfer data
  field in each record.

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• (1)  From the AMSS options menu key in "6" and
  press enter(2) The system will display the
  "Create AMSS Transaction To SAMS" Options
  menu.(3) Select "Send AMSS Transactions to SAMS"
  via Diskette.(4) The system will display a
  warning  screen. Six conditions are listed to
  indicate actions that must be taken prior to
  running the process. Ensure you have 2 blank
  formatted floppy diskettes "3.5 inch 1.44m"
  Statements also included indicating the end of
  the current reporting period and that the AMSS
  report date will be set the the next reporting
  period. Below the warning screen is the prompt
  "Do You Wish To Continue (Y/N)"

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• (5) Key in "Y" and press enter.(6) The system
  begins the process and when complete displays the
  device menu screen. (7) Insert the first
  diskette into the drive.(8) Choose the right
  disk drive and press enter.(9) The system will
  prompt you to remove the first diskette and press
  enter. Do so. (10) The printer will print out
  the AMSS and Usage data copied from the
  diskette.(11) The system will prompt you to
  insert the next diskette. Do so.(12) The system
  will prompt you to remove the diskette and press
  enter. Again do it.(13) The printer will print a
  DA form 2715 Feeder Report. (14) The system
  returns to the Create AMSS Transactions To SAMS
  options menu.

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End of Report Period (Cont.)

• Disk one (1) produced during the "End Of Report
  Period" Process is the file named AWAME130.dat
  and will be sent directly to the SSMO via blast.
  The second disk is to be used by ULLS-S4,
  currently fielded. Send this disk to the CO/BN
  S-4 for input into the ULSS-S4. NOTE Always
  refer to the EUM for further clarification on any
  process.

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Print/Display NMC Listing

• (1) From the ULLS-G main menu screen key in "k"
  and press enter.(2) From the Equipment Data
  reports menu key in "6" and press enter.(3) The
  system will display the Non-Mission Capable
  Equipment menu.(4) Print by DODAAC. Key in "2"
  and press enter.

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Print/Display NMC Listing (Cont.)

• (5) The system will display the Non-Mission
  Capable Equipment screen. (6) Key in the DODAAC
  and press enter or press enter for the logon
  DODAAC.(7) The system will produce the printout
  and return to the Non-Mission Capable Equipment
  screen.

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Roll-Up By Supporting UIC

• SOURCE Display/Print AMSS Reports process. 
• FREQUENCY Review weekly or IAW local SOP.
• PURPOSE Provides a rollup of Not Mission
  Capable time for all reportable systems
  and end items.
• DISPOSITION Dispose of IAW local SOP or the
  Modern Army Record Keeping System
  (MARKS). 

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• MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
• This report shows readiness data for al systems
  and reportable end items. It can be run anytime
  during the reporting period. Report can be for a
  unit or a rollup by reporting battalion/brigade.

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Roll-Up By End Item Code

• SOURCE Display/Print AMSS Reports process. 
• FREQUENCY Review weekly or IAW local SOP.
• PURPOSE Provides by UIC, a consolidated report
  by EIC sequence, of all reportable
  systems/subsystems and end items that have
  accumulated any NMC time during the reporting
  period.
• DISPOSITION Dispose of when no longer needed or
  IAW local SOP.

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• MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
• Provides readiness data for all
  systems/subsystems and end items.
• - Run anytime during the report period.
• - Available by Unit or rollup by reporting
  Bn/Bde.
• - Use to identify NMC subsystem of a reportable
  system and reason for NMC status.

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Organizational Class XI Failure Data By Admin
Number

• SOURCE Display/Print AMSS Reports process.
• FREQUENCY Review weekly or IAW local SOP.
• PURPOSE Provides a recapitulation of all
  reportable systems or subsystems with
  accumulated Non-Mission Capable Supply
  (NMCS) time and the parts information causing
  the system or subsystem to be NMC.
• DISPOSITION Dispose of when no longer needed or
  IAW local SOP.

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• MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
• - This report shows the NMC time for each system
  or subsystem by Admin Number.
• - It shows the equipment model and parts on
  order, with the NMCS and NMCM time in days or
  hours.

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Non-Mission Capable Report

• SOURCE Materiel Readiness Processes,
  Display/Print AMSS Reports.
• FREQUENCY Review Daily or IAW local SOP.
• PURPOSE Provides a recapitulation of all
  reportable systems and subsystems by Admin
  Number.
• DISPOSITION Dispose of IAW local SOP.

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• MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
• - This report shows by Admin Number the total NMC
  time accumulated for a reportable system or the
  subsystem configured to it.
• - The printout lists the subsystems by Admin
  Numbers and the NMC time in percentages for the
  different NMC categories.
• - The printout will show the UIC and date range,
  which is the beginning of the current report
  period until the day the report is executed.

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System Status Summery

• SOURCE Materiel Readiness Processes,
  Display/Print AMSS Reports.
• FREQUENCY Review weekly or IAW local SOP.
• PURPOSE Provides a rollup of all reportable
  equipment by weapon system EIC.
• DISPOSITION Dispose of IAW local SOP.

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• MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
• - This report explains NMC time by
  equipment/nomenclature and model and is keyed by
  date range, and UIC and equipment with the
  authorized and on-hand quantities given.
• - The FMC/NMC percentages by level are also given
  on this report.

TRK UTIL .75T M1009 1 1 100 --- --- --- ---
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Equipment Exception Report

• SOURCE Materiel Readiness Processes,
  Display/Print AMSS Reports.
• FREQUENCY Review daily or IAW local SOP.
• PURPOSE Provides a listing of all reportable
  systems or subsystems by Admin Number
  that do not meet the DA goal of 90.
• DISPOSITION Dispose of IAW local SOP

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• MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
• - This report shows the reportable systems by
  Admin Number that do not meet the Department of
  the Army overall FMC readiness goals.
• - If a reportable system has a FMC rate that is
  90 or below, it will be displayed or printed on
  this report.
• - Identifies part required if reason for NMC
  status is supply.

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Projected Fully Mission Capable Rates By
Reportable End Item/System

• SOURCE Materiel Readiness Processes,
  Display/Print AMSS Reports. 
• FREQUENCY Review daily or IAW local SOP. 
• PURPOSE Provides information to determine what
  equipment could possibly meet the DA goal of
  90 based on current FMC/NMC equipment
  status. 
• DISPOSITION Dispose of IAW local SOP.

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• MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
• - This report displays the projected FMC percent
  and the NMC hours/days to the DA goal of 90.
• - The projections are based on the current NMC
  status of the equipment and the concept that "if
  nothing changes between now and the end of the
  report period", this is what the result will be.
• - A negative number in the last column indicates
  number of days short of goal.

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Rollup By System/Subsystem Admin Number

• SOURCE Materiel Readiness Processes,
  Display/Print AMSS Reports.
•  FREQUENCY Review daily or IAW local SOP.
•  PURPOSE Identifies equipment usage and
  readiness by system/subsystem to date for
  the report period.
•  DISPOSITION Dispose of IAW local SOP.

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• MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
• - This report provides the total Fully Mission
  Capable and Non-Mission Capable time accumulated
  for a reportable system or subsystem by Admin
  Number.
• - The data portrayed includes nomenclature,
  model, quantity authorized, quantity on-hand,
  accumulated FMC and NMC time total by level and
  expressed in hours or days, type usage, usage
  totals and current FMC status.

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DA Form 2715 Summary Report

• SOURCE Materiel Status Processes, DA Form 2715
  Feeder Reports.
•  FREQUENCY Review weekly.
•  PURPOSE Provides the FMC data by percentage
  for on-hand equipment, pacing items and
  cumulative FMC Readiness (R) Level Range.
•  DISPOSITION Dispose IAW local SOP.

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• MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
• - Run anytime time during report period.
• - Use to determine R-Rating.
• - R-Rating is based on the date/range run and is
  not projected.

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DA Form 2715 Feeder Reports Detail Report (LIN
Sequence)

• SOURCE Materiel Status Processes DA Form
  2715 Feeder Reports.
• FREQUENCY Review Weekly.
•  PURPOSE Provides DA Form 2715 Feeder data at
  any time during report period for
  reportable systems/subsystems and end
  items.
•  DISPOSITION Dispose IAW local SOP.

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• MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
• - Use to identify systemic maintenance issues for
  specific types of equipment.
• - Use to prepare End of Reporting Period USR
  Data.

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AMSS Authorization Report

• SOURCE Update AMSS Authorizations Option
• FREQUENCY Run Monthly
• PURPOSE Provides a listing of all records in
  the AMSS Authorization File by UIC.
•  DISPOSITION Dispose IAW Local SOP.

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• MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
• - Use to verify unit MTOE authorizations.
• - Validate authorizations with EDF.

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QUESTIONS?