Explorer

• What's New
• Introduction
  • Overview
  • Use of the SSE
  • SSE Compliance Process
  • Key Roles and Responsibilities
  • SSE Points of Contact
  • SSE Introductory Presentation
  • Frequently Asked Questions
• Resources
  • Resource Overview
  • Compliance Tools
  • Tailoring Guide
  • Glossary
  • Archived Version of SSE
• Key Support Areas and Governing Policies
  • KSA 1 – Logistics Readiness and Sustainability
    • KSA 1 – Introduction
    • GP 1.1 – Logistics Readiness and Sustainability Requirements
    • GP 1.2 – Contractors on Deployed Operations (CONDO)
    • GP 1.3 – Support Continuity
    • GP 1.4 – Deleted
  • KSA 2 - Supportability Engineering
    • KSA 2 – Introduction
    • GP 2.1 – ILS Process and Support Solution Development
    • GP 2.2 – Reliability
    • GP 2.3 – Obsolescence Management
    • GP 2.4 – Automatic Test Systems and Test and Measurement Equipment
    • GP 2.5 – Configuration Management of Defence Materiel
    • GP 2.6 – Technical Documentation
    • GP 2.7 – Disposal
    • GP 2.8 – Training and Training Equipment
    • GP 2.9 – Manpower and Human Factors Integration
  • KSA 3 - Supply Chain Management
    • KSA 3 – Introduction
    • GP 3.1 – Supply Chain Management
    • GP 3.2 – Codification and Item Ownership
    • GP 3.3 – Inventory Planning
    • GP 3.4 – Packaging and Labelling
    • GP 3.5 – Materiel and Financial Accounting
    • GP 3.6 – Fuels, Lubricants and Industrial Gases
    • GP 3.7 – Equipment Transportability
  • KSA 4 - Logistic Information
    • KSA 4 – Introduction
    • GP 4.1 – Logistics Information Requirements Planning
    • GP 4.2 – Information Systems and Services Requirements Planning
• GPs Amendment or Development
  • Overview

Content

Governing Policy (GP) 3.2 – Codification and Item Ownership

Support Solution Assurance Guidance

Scope

It is Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) and Front Line Command (FLC) policy that all materiel procured and deployed in support of UK Armed Forces is a corporate resource, to be allocated to meet overall Defence aims according to operational priority.

This policy applies irrespective of the requirements of individual projects or materiel ownership, when materiel may be common to more than one platform / equipment / capability.

Utilisation of NATO Stock Numbers (NSN), issued by a recognised NATO Codification Bureau

• to uniquely identify all items entering the Joint Support Chain (JSC),
• allocating item responsibility on the basis of one item one owner,
• hosted on a single Base Inventory System,

provides a key enabler in identifying, tracking, and managing items through the military support chain.

Benefits of applying this policy include:

• Single method of identifying all materiel.
• Aiding inter-operability across Service boundaries.
• With Allies, providing complete visibility of stock across Defence.
• Best use of minimal deployed stock, and reduced duplication within inventory.
• Identification of multiple sources of supply, and common use items for incorporation into new designs.
• Access to materiel information in support of exit strategies.
• Reduction in overall costs of spares support through consolidated purchasing.

Applicability

All support solutions that require materiel purchased through DE&S project teams (and industrial partners under Contractor Logistic Support (CLS) arrangements) including Urgent Operational Requirements, to utilise Joint Support Chain Logistic Information Systems (demanding, receipting, managing through life and accounting for materiel) to form part of the Defence Inventory.

Underpinning Policy

JSP 886 - The Defence Logistics Support Chain Manual.

Compliance Tool – Evidence Requirements

The Evidence Requirements for this Governing Policy (GP) can be found within the SSE Compliance Tool.

The adopted Support Solution is to provide specific evidence in order to achieve compliance with the needs of this GP.

Variations from this evidence set may be possible and should be discussed with the Subject Matter Experts (SME) or the relevant Support Solutions Officer (SSO) at the earliest opportunity.

Any risks associated with this variance will be agreed with the Key Support Area (KSA) Owner’s representative and SSO for the project team to manage or mitigate.

Any costs associated with this risk mitigation may potentially fall to the project team to fund the integration of a non-compliant solution.

GP 3.2 compliance areas [25KB DOC] that may assist project teams in the provision of evidence are provided separately to this GP.

Supporting Information

• JSP 886, Volume 2
  • Part 3 - Single Ownership of Items of Supply in the Defence Inventory
  • Part 4 - NATO Codification in the UK
  • Part 2 - Contractor Logistic Support.

Sponsoring Authority

• AD SCS (Policy) SO1 SC Development
• Mil: 9439 12037
• Civ: +44 (0) 1264 382037

Subject Matter Experts (SME)

For all aspects of this KSA the initial POC is the SIT Lead.

On completion of tailoring, the following may be contacted for specialist advice.

Title	Scope	Phone / Email
NCB-1c	NATO Codification and Single Item Ownership	Mil: 9456 12931 Civ: +44 (0) 141 224 2931 Email: DESSCM-NCB1c@mod.uk
SCS Progs DM3 SCS (Programmes) Data Management Team (DMT)	Transfer or holding items on the target base inventory management system	Mil: 9439 17836 Civ: +44 (0) 1264 381836 Email: DESSCS-ProgsDataMan3@mod.uk

Change History

Change History

Due to the significant number of changes contained within the SSE Version 5 update, ‘Change History’ will only reflect those amendments, inclusions or deletions which follow the launch of the website on 1st November 2008.

The SSE updated to Version 5.0.0 on 1st November 2008 following a full review of all documents and changes to a number of GPs. Individual document Change History pages will detail changes other than minor editorial amendments.

1 August 2010

Removal of ‘Support Solution Assurance Guidance’ paragraph.

1 April 2010

Text changed to reflect that support assurance policy and guidance is now incorporated into JSP 899.

1 November 2009

SME detail amended.

1 July 2009

Support Solution Assurance Guidance paragraph added.

SME details amended.

1 May 2009

Minor text changes.

‘Support Improvement Team Officer’ changed to ‘Support Solutions Officer’.

‘IPT’ changed to ‘project team’.

1 April 2009

Minor text change.

‘Supply’ changed to ‘Support’.

References to SCS Sp Solns replaced by SIT.

1 November 2008

Major update.