LOGISTICS SUPPORT IN

THE SYSTEM LIFE-CYCLE

 System Life Cycle

Construction
Design and
and/or
Development
Production

Utilization
Retirement Operation, utilization,
Material phase-out and sustaining life-
and cycle maintenance
recycling/disposal and support of a
system
System Life Cycle: Logistics
Support
Overall support infrastructure must be addressed
from the beginning of the life cycle
when system requirements are initially defined and the
early stages of planning and conceptual design are in
progress
Supportability both at the forward and
backward flows
Supply-oriented maintenance and support
infrastructure (forward)
Maintenance for possible product failure (backward)
Supportability must be considered in the overall
engineering process
 Integrated Logistics Support (ILS)
Plan
Logistics Support Planning
Begins early in the conceptual phase of a program
A significant ongoing activity
The early phases of this planning effort must be closely
integrated with the System Engineering Management
Plan (SEMP)

Preliminary ILS Plan

Should address:
overall approach to system support
functions to be performed throughout system design
related to supportability

Formal ILS Plan

Covers logistic support activities that deal with the
detailed requirements for the system and the
provisioning, procurement and the acquisition, and the
maintaining of a support capability for the system
throughout its planned life cycle
 Formal ILS Plan
Sections:

1. Maintenance plan
2. Supply support plan
3. Test and support equipment plan
4. Personnel and training plan
5. Facilities plan
6. Data plan
7. Computer resource plan
8. Retirement plan
 1. Maintenance Plan
Includes:
description of the levels of maintenance required
for sustaining system life-cycle support
major functions to be performed at each level
organizations responsible for performing the
required maintenance
summary of the logistic support resources
required.
The information contained in this
plan serves as a technical baseline
for all other sections of the formal
ILS plan.
2. Supply Support Plan
Includes:
Summary listing of spares/repair parts and consumables
for each level of maintenance
Procedures covering the procurement and handling of
spares, repair parts, and consumables
Definition of warehousing and the accountability
functions associated with maintenance support.
initial cataloging, stocking, inventory maintenance and control,
establishing procurement life cycles, and disposition of residual
assets
Procedures of data collection, analysis and the updating
of spares and repair-part demand factors necessary to
improve procurement cycles and to reduce waste
 3. Test and Support Equipment Plan
Includes:
Summary listing of test and support equipment requirements
for each level of maintenance (based on the results of the
supportability analysis)
Procedures covering the acquisition of newly designed support
equipment and the procurement of the off -the-shelf items
from supplier inventories
Procedures covering support equipment/prime equipment
compatibility testing and the subsequent distribution of test
and support equipment to the geographical point of need
Procedures for data collection, analysis and the evaluation of
test and support equipment to assess testing accuracy and
thoroughness, test equipment utilization, reliability of the test
equipment and test equipment maintenance
4. Personnel and Training
Plan
Includes:
Operator training (training of system operators) to include
the type and level of training, the proposed schedule for
training, basic entry-skill requirements and a brief course
outline
Maintenance training for each level of maintenance to
include the type and depth of training, the proposed schedule
for training, basic entry requirements and a brief course
outline
Training equipment, devices, aids and data required to
support operator and maintenance training activity
Proposed approach for the accomplishment of periodic
training for new personnel or for the recycling of existing
personnel for upgrading purposes
 5. Facilities Plan
Developed to identify all real property and
equipment to support system testing, training,

operation and maintenance functions

Must contain sufficient qualitative and
quantitative information to allow facility
planners to:
Initially assess and allocate requirements
Analyze existing facilities to determine
adequacies or deficiencies
Determine requirements for new facilities
or modifications to existing facilities
Estimate the cost of construction or
modification projects required to meet the
need of the system, and establish the
appropriate facility development schedule
6. Data Plan
Includes:
A summary of technical data requirements for
each level of maintenance for the system and
its components
Technical data development schedule (major
milestones)
A procedure fir data verification and validation
Database for data verification and validation
7. Computer Resource Plan

A detailed listing of computer hardware

and maintenance software programs and
the procedures for modifying such
programs
8. Retirement Plan
Should address:
Disposability
Possible candidates for item recycling
Procedures for recycling
Methods for material decomposition

Objectives:
To identify the magnitude of effort required in this
final phase of the life cycle
To define the anticipated logistic support resources
needed
 Important Factors to
Consider

PERFORMS
MAINTAINAB
INTENDED RELIABLE
LE
FUNCTION

ECONOMICA
OPERABLE
LLY FEASIBLE
 Blanchard, B. & Fabrycky, W. (2010).
Systems Engineering and
Management 5th ed. USA.
Blanchard, B. (2004). Logistics
Engineering and Management 6th
Ed. USA.