DPAS SCR: 01846

• SCR Number
  01846
• Title
  SKO Catalog Improvements
• DPAS Module
  Warehouse
• Reporting Organization
  Army: ASA(ALT)
• State
  New
• History
  Submitted 11/18/2022
• Description
  Change Request: Process Improvement

  
  

  Description: 

  The current SKO catalog process is difficult to use to create a kit configuration that contains many items. It requires a lot of scrolling left to right and up and down.  Note: U.S. Army has kits that contain as many as 500 items with kits within kits.

   

  Recommended:

  1. With ASA(ALT) having lots of kits containing many items, it is recommended that DPAS provide the capability to import kits using an Excel spreadsheet and/or another format that simplifies the process.  The process should also allow for th export of a current kit, the update of it off-line, then the re-upload the updated kit configuration.
  

  2. U.S. Army has many of its kit configurations available via LDAC.  It is recommended that DPAS work with LDAC to determine the possibility of LDAC providing the kit configuration in a format that a DPAS user could directly import into DPAS and / or have the kit configurations included as part of the AEEM catalog data feed.

  3. DPAS needs to display the kit configuration as a tree based upon the tree order.  When there are kits within a kit, it needs to display the kit tree with the appropriate indents for the kits within a kit

  4. DPAS needs to support at least 5 levels of kits within kits.

   

  Mission Critical:

  This functionality is needed to support U.S. Army kits.

   

  Benefits:

  This change will enable kits to be assembled with more items than the SKO catalog identities.

   

  Frequency: Weekly

   

  Users:

  This feature will be utilized by the ASA(ALT) PMs in fielding of the next generation of equipment to the U.S. Army. It is believed that other DPAS users that are managing kits with large numbers of items and with kits within kits.