Commercial Part Number to NSN

In the application: Main Menu → Parts/Products → Commercial Part Number to NSN

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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1. Commercial Part Number to NSN: check a reference against its item

Start with the button-specific workflow: Commercial Part Number to NSN: check a reference against its item.

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Choose a chapter
  1. 0:00 — Open Commercial Part Number to NSN
  2. 0:23 — Enter the commercial reference
  3. 0:47 — Compare the exact-reference matches
  4. 1:25 — Use a prefix to discover variants
  5. 2:03 — Open the matching NIIN
  6. 2:28 — Choose a useful item action
  7. 3:09 — Confirm the part reference in MCRL
  8. 3:53 — Compare the recorded characteristics
  9. 4:34 — Open the recorded drawing
  10. 5:04 — Review the drawing file
  11. 5:35 — Return to the reference search

2. Read NSN characteristics, awards and research records

Follow an item into characteristics, awards, documents, substitutes, drawings and its combined report. Chapters let you skip steps already shown.

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  1. 0:00 — Continue research on the same NSN
  2. 0:29 — Open Technical Characteristics
  3. 0:42 — Read each characteristic across its row
  4. 1:45 — Open Award History
  5. 2:03 — Compare the award date, quantity and price
  6. 3:06 — Open Associated Documents
  7. 3:28 — Choose the matching document number
  8. 4:01 — Read the listed specification revisions
  9. 4:43 — Open Substitutes
  10. 4:54 — Read the substitute relationship row
  11. 5:39 — Open the item's drawing list
  12. 5:50 — Compare drawing, sheet, type and revision
  13. 6:32 — Confirm the selected drawing row
  14. 6:56 — Open the combined HTML report
  15. 7:11 — Match catalog and management sections
  16. 7:52 — Read the report award quantities and prices
  17. 8:22 — Compare the report technical characteristics
  18. 8:46 — Read the report's document references
  19. 9:25 — Finish with substitutions and MOE rules
  20. 10:04 — Return to the NSN summary

3. 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.

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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

4. 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.

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  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

Written walkthrough and screen references

  1. Find NSNs from a commercial part number
  2. Read an NSN result
  3. Read FLIS identification, sourcing and reference segments
  4. Read an item's technical characteristics
  5. Inspect and download item drawings
  6. Read an NSN's award history
  7. Find documents associated with an NSN
  8. Evaluate recorded substitute items
  9. Read the combined NSN research report
  10. Read FLIS shipping and management data
  11. Read inventory and backorders
  12. Search and read APL/AEL equipment lists
  13. Read monthly and quarterly forecasts
  14. Use the short-form NSN market report
  15. Read contractor results and profiles