Unfulfilled NSN Opportunities

In the application: Main Menu → Parts/Products → Unfulfilled NSN 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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1. Review Unfulfilled NSN Opportunities

Start with the button-specific workflow: Review Unfulfilled NSN Opportunities.

Watch from the beginning

Choose a chapter
  1. 0:00 — Understand the unfulfilled list
  2. 0:28 — Choose a profile match group
  3. 0:59 — Identify the requirement
  4. 1:40 — Manage the list
  5. 2:27 — Open the same item results
  6. 3:11 — Read the matching characteristics
  7. 3:51 — Open the item record
  8. 4:37 — Review the same item awards
  9. 5:32 — Return and continue

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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Choose a chapter
  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.

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

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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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

5. How to use My Projects Folder

Locate saved work, navigate the explorer, create and organize subfolders, and understand upload and deletion controls. This shared example may differ from the preceding search.

Watch from the beginning

Choose a chapter
  1. 0:00 — Open My Projects Folder
  2. 0:15 — Choose the owner and saved project
  3. 0:42 — Expand an award project
  4. 1:11 — Open the project file area
  5. 1:37 — Create and organize a parts project
  6. 1:56 — Start from the assigned parts record
  7. 2:20 — Understand the first Folder visit
  8. 2:41 — Read the project folders
  9. 3:11 — Create a subfolder under Notes
  10. 3:21 — Verify the new folder
  11. 3:35 — Copy the folder to Misc
  12. 3:45 — Paste into the destination folder
  13. 3:56 — Confirm the copied folder in Misc
  14. 4:11 — Review Upload options without submitting a file
  15. 4:40 — Return to My Projects Folder and reopen this record
  16. 4:57 — Continue work in the saved project
  17. 5:09 — Navigate within the explorer
  18. 5:29 — Distinguish file deletion from project deletion

Written walkthrough and screen references

  1. Find DLA requirements that remain unfulfilled
  2. Find a part by NSN or NIIN
  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. Inspect and download item drawings
  9. Read the combined NSN research report
  10. Read FLIS identification, sourcing and reference segments
  11. Read FLIS shipping and management data
  12. Read inventory and backorders
  13. Search and read APL/AEL equipment lists
  14. Read monthly and quarterly forecasts
  15. Use the short-form NSN market report
  16. Read contractor results and profiles
  17. Work with project folders