LETTER TO JOHN HOLMES (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00191R000100050009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 1, 1986
• Content Type: LETTER

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John Holmes
Management Science America, Inc.
Mack Centre IV
61 South Paramus Road
'Paramus, NJ 07652-1217
John:
The CLAS team members met with Ladd Shinn on 30 July for
preliminary discussions on modifying the MSA packages. I
believe the day was successful. Discussions began with
Ladd and myself delineating the scope of Ladd's
capability to help us. The understanding is that Ladd is
prepared to support changes to the packages. He is not prepared
to support implementation efforts, which remain with the account
managers.
We held very general discussions on each package and the overall
technical concerns. At the end of the day, however, we asked
Ladd to apprise us on the effort required to:
A. . Accept multiple Buying Entity Codes (BEC) on
requests generated by the Manufacturing System and on p 35 -41- K
requests originated in the Purchasing System. There is also
a requirement to permit changes to BEC without having to
cancel and re-enter--requests.
B. Pass request data (request number, stock number,
quantity, required date) from Purchasing to Manufacturing
and pass inventory data on that request (request number,
quantity released, unit price) back to Purchasing. This
requirement assumes we're viewing the Manufacturing
Inventory as if it were a vendor or Buying Entity, as we
have discussed.
C. Establish a wholly new screen, with data elements.
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For planning purposes, these screens represent data capture
only, with no logic fields. The purpose of such a screen ftc
would be to provide structured input instead of relying on
the comment screens so much.
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D. Insert a new data field into an existing screen. 372A?Ir
E. Increase the size of a Key data field (such as 3Yt cio.1
purchase order number). cuktA 431