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Appendix A: Operations and Existing Automation Systems
Pages 51-54

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... The contract administration activities are carried out through nine regional operations. The logistics data management functions include maintaining the federal catalog of over 4 million items, maintaining records on DOD-owned industrial plant equipment, and maintaining a central repository of R&D reports.
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... Defense Integrated Subsistence Management System (DISMS) Supports worldwide perishable/semiperishable subsistence items for troop issue and stocked nonperishable commissary resale.
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... Supports bibliographic entry, indexing, and dissemination functions at the Defense Technical Information Center. REUTILIZATION AND MARKETING Disposal Automated Information System (DAISY)
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... Equipment Management and Control System (EMACS) Inventory management functions for all DLA operating equipment and maintenance functions on operating equipment and mechanized handling systems at depots and supply centers.
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Key Terms

  • management functions
  • logistics data
  • industrial plant
  • plant equipment
  • materiel management

  • inventory management
  • supply centers
  • operating equipment
  • six supply
  • defense integrated

  • federal catalog
  • military services
  • dla standard
  • information center
  • hazardous materiels

  • standard automated
  • functions include
  • automated information
  • defense technical
  • subsistence management

  • depot operations
  • government shipping
  • shipping documentation
  • subsistence items
  • equipment management

  • integrated materiel
  • managing related
  • six warehouses
  • handling equipment
  • nine regional


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