Machine Shops Opportunities

In the application: Main Menu → Parts/Products → Machine Shops Opportunities

Follow the sections in order, or use the contents and chapter links to go directly to what you need. Existing lessons may change example records or repeat a shared screen.

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Written walkthrough and screen references

  1. Explore fabrication and machine-shop categories
  2. Inspect and download item drawings
  3. Read an item's technical characteristics
  4. Read an NSN result
  5. Read an NSN's award history
  6. Find documents associated with an NSN
  7. Evaluate recorded substitute items
  8. Read the combined NSN research report
  9. Work with project folders
  10. Review my opportunities
  11. Read FLIS identification, sourcing and reference segments
  12. Read FLIS shipping and management data
  13. Read inventory and backorders
  14. Search and read APL/AEL equipment lists
  15. Read monthly and quarterly forecasts
  16. Use the short-form NSN market report
  17. Read contractor results and profiles

Watch the learning sequence

1. Use Machine Shops Opportunities and research a part

Start with the button-specific workflow: Use Machine Shops Opportunities and research a part.

Watch from the beginning

Choose a chapter
  1. 0:00 — choose-category
  2. 0:29 — review-spacer-row
  3. 1:00 — Read the notice fields and research links
  4. 1:47 — compare-item-dimensions
  5. 2:18 — inspect-drawing-reference
  6. 2:47 — Select drawing files and return
  7. 3:20 — Continue into item research with a separate example
  8. 3:49 — Open Technical Characteristics
  9. 4:02 — Read each characteristic across its row
  10. 5:05 — Open Award History
  11. 5:23 — Compare the award date, quantity and price
  12. 6:25 — Open Associated Documents
  13. 6:47 — Choose the matching document number
  14. 7:21 — Read the listed specification revisions
  15. 8:03 — Open Substitutes
  16. 8:14 — Read the substitute relationship row
  17. 8:59 — Open the item's drawing list
  18. 9:10 — Compare drawing, sheet, type and revision
  19. 9:52 — Confirm the selected drawing row
  20. 10:16 — Open the combined HTML report
  21. 10:31 — Match catalog and management sections
  22. 11:11 — Read the report award quantities and prices
  23. 11:42 — Compare the report technical characteristics
  24. 12:06 — Read the report's document references
  25. 12:45 — Finish with substitutions and MOE rules
  26. 13:23 — Return to the NSN summary
  27. 13:52 — Organize a prospect in a project folder
  28. 14:19 — Start from the assigned parts record
  29. 14:43 — Understand the first Folder visit
  30. 15:05 — Read the project folders
  31. 15:34 — Create a subfolder under Notes
  32. 15:45 — Verify the new folder
  33. 15:58 — Copy the folder to Misc
  34. 16:08 — Paste into the destination folder
  35. 16:19 — Confirm the copied folder in Misc
  36. 16:34 — Review Upload options without submitting a file
  37. 17:04 — Return to My Projects Folder and reopen this record
  38. 17:20 — Continue work in the saved project
  39. 17:32 — Return to categories and choose the next opportunity

2. Read NSN catalog, logistics and inventory screens

Continue from NSN details into catalog, logistics, inventory and backorder records. This shared lesson uses another item example.

Watch from the beginning

Choose a chapter
  1. 0:00 — Start at the NSN item page
  2. 0:31 — Open FLIS Header
  3. 0:33 — FLIS Header — Segment A
  4. 1:52 — Open MOE Rules
  5. 1:56 — MOE Rules — Segment B
  6. 2:52 — Open MCRL
  7. 2:55 — MCRL — Segment C
  8. 3:51 — Open Shipping
  9. 3:55 — Shipping — Segment G
  10. 5:03 — Open ML-C
  11. 5:07 — ML-C — Segment H
  12. 6:11 — Open Inventory
  13. 6:15 — Inventory
  14. 6:57 — Open BackOrder
  15. 7:00 — BackOrder
  16. 7:40 — Return to item research

3. Follow NSN forecasts, equipment lists, market totals and source documents

Continue item research through equipment lists, forecasts, market analysis and source documents. The lesson identifies changes of example.

Watch from the beginning

Choose a chapter
  1. 0:00 — Check the screw's APL lookup
  2. 0:42 — Use a separate populated APL example
  3. 1:25 — Read the pump list's parts
  4. 2:07 — Read the screw's forecast result
  5. 2:34 — Identify the monthly forecast
  6. 2:52 — Read monthly quantities and total
  7. 3:00 — Read price and acquisition fields
  8. 3:13 — Switch from item months to class quarters
  9. 3:35 — Read the chain's quarterly quantities
  10. 4:14 — Read this screw's three-year market result
  11. 4:46 — Read a populated item market example
  12. 5:17 — Open the item competitor list
  13. 5:39 — Use a separate opened-drawing example
  14. 6:16 — Inspect the opened drawing file
  15. 6:47 — Open the printable award table
  16. 7:25 — Follow an awardee to its CAGE profile
  17. 7:55 — Read the associated specification itself
  18. 8:38 — Browse documents related to the specification
  19. 9:18 — Choose the right reference link on the screw
  20. 9:45 — See where the part-number link goes
  21. 10:18 — Confirm the referenced organization
  22. 10:45 — See what IPB Search opens
  23. 11:13 — Start another item lookup
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