7-8
As a work center supervisor or division supply petty
officer, you must cooperate with the supply department
by returning replaced parts. By doing that, you will help
the fleet use assets more efficiently.
Afloat Shopping Guide (ASG)
The Afloat Shopping Guide (ASG), NAVSUP
P-4400, is another source used for identification
purposes. It is designed to assist fleet and Navy supply
support personnel in identifying an NSN for those items
of supply which do not have a part/reference number.
Descriptions and illustrations may be used to determine
substitutions and applicable NSNs in the general
hardware area.
The ASG consists of seven volumes containing
descriptive data and illustrations accompanied by
alphabetic and NIIN indexes of the groups/classes. The
NIIN index also indicates the availability of an item
from the mobile logistics support forces. The ASG is
updated annually, and each volume is reissued in its
entirety every fourth year. Figure 7-8 shows a page from
the ASG.
Coordinated Shipboard
Allowance List (COSAL)
The Coordinated Shipboard Allowance List
(COSAL) is both a technical and a supply document. It
is
technical
in
that
nomenclature,
operating
characteristics, technical manuals, and so forth, are
described in Allowance Parts Lists (APLs) and
Allowance Equipage Lists (AELs). It is a supply
document in that the COSAL provides a complete list of
all parts required to operate and maintain the equipment
installed at all ship/shore activities.
The COSAL is prepared for individual ship/shore
activities. It lists the following:
1.
Equipment or components required for the
ship/activity
to
perform
its
operational
assignment
2.
Repair parts and special tools required for the
operation, overhaul, and repair of these
equipments
3.
Miscellaneous portable items needed for the
care and upkeep of the ship/activity
The COSAL is based on equipment configuration
data contained in the computerized Weapons System
File (WSF) at the Ships Parts Control Center (SPCC).
The WSF includes the reported equipment configuration
installed on each ship as well as the individual repair
parts applicable to those equipments. Configuration
information for the COSAL must be precise. Therefore,
the initial establishment of a configuration database
must be accurate. Thereafter, changes resulting from
additions, deletions, or modifications of equipments
must be reported promptly. The quality of the COSAL is
only as good as the equipment configuration data
available to the various activities involved in its
development.
Figure 7-5.—Master Cross-Reference List (MCRL), Part II
