Finding the cubic footage of your shipment.With each deployment or redeployment re·de·ploy tr.v. re·de·ployed, re·de·ploy·ing, re·de·ploys 1. To move (military forces) from one combat zone to another. 2. , someone in the unit will probably have to figure out the cubic footage of shipments or storage. You might just be the one. You can find cubic footage in the CTASC CTASC Corps Theater ADP Service Center Catalog Data report online in the Integrated Logistics Analysis Program (ILAP ILAP Integrated Logistics Analysis Program ILAP Integrated Logistical Analysis Program ILAP Integrated Logistics Automation Program ). ILAP is located on the Logistics Information Warehouse (LIW See VLIW. ) website run by the Logistics Support Activity: https://liw.logsa.army.mil/index.efm?fuseaction=login Signing in and gaining access to a network server, Web server or other computer system. The process (the noun) is a "login" or "logon," while the act of doing it (the verb) is to "log in" or to "log on. .main Once you're logged on to LIW, click on the Army ILAP icon in the center column. Expand the Catalog tab and select CTASC Catalog Data. You can enter one NIIN NIIN National Item Identification Number NIIN NATO Item Identification Number NIIN Navy Integrated Information Network at a time or you can import a list of previously prepared NIINs. Prepare a NIIN list by typing the complete NIINs with their hyphens. Leave no blank spaces in the file, do a hard return after each NIIN, and be sure to save the file as a Notepad The text editor that comes with Windows. It is a very elementary utility, but gets the job done most of the time. See text editor and WordPad. (text, tool) Notepad - The very basic text editor supplied with Microsoft Windows. or WordPad (*.txt) file. Load the "txt" file from the CTASC Catalog Data screen by clicking the radio button for NIN Import. Click the Import button, find your "txt" file in the "Look in:" block, and OPEN the file. Your NIINs will display in the "NIIN(s)" box. Click to run the report. The report provides a lot of data other than the cube. You can make the report easier to use by saving it to an Excel spreadsheet. Right click on the report, go to File, then Save As. Make sure the "Save as Type:" block is set to Excel with headers. Change the "Save in:" block to C$ on 'Client' and select the folder you want to save the Excel file in. Then in the "File name:" block, name your file. Click Save. Open Excel, select File, Open, and find the file you just saved. Select and open it. You can right click on the heading of one or more columns and choose Delete to get rid of data you don't need. If you have problems, you can get help from LOG 911: https://weblog.logsa.army.mil/log911/index.cfm THERE ARE WAYS TO FIND CUBIC FOOTAGE ... ... AND SOME FAR OUT WAYS! ILAP MAKES THE PROCESS EASIER! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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