Navy WSS Inventory at-Risk Stock Alert Tool (IRAS)

The Inventory-at-Risk Alert System (IRAS) is a NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support (WSS) application that flags National Item Identification Numbers (NIINs) and repairable assets that need planner or item-manager attention before they become a fleet readiness problem. It was built in-house by NAVSUP WSS's N61 Operations Research & Analysis directorate and is used daily by WSS item managers and buyers, not by the general public.

What it is

IRAS was introduced in July 2017 to solve a specific inventory-control problem: preventing the Navy from storing government-owned repairable assets ("carcasses") at commercial repair contractor sites without matching, funded contract coverage. The tool compares what a commercial repair activity has on-hand and in-transit against open repair contract slots, then recommends whether that activity needs additional carcasses shipped to it, or whether assets need to move elsewhere. Because of its success on the commercial-contractor side, NAVSUP WSS extended a version of IRAS to organic Navy sites such as Fleet Readiness Centers starting in November 2019, comparing on-hand Navy stock to open orders to recommend material movement. More broadly, item managers and buyers use IRAS to prioritize workload across purchase, repair, forecast, and inventory-accuracy actions, surfacing alerts and flags tied to Fleet Readiness risk. NAVSUP WSS reported that IRAS helped it manage roughly 450,000 fleet customer orders a year across more than 300,000 unique items, and credited it as one factor behind an 8% increase in material availability on high-demand maritime items and a fill-rate improvement from 84.5% (FY2016) to 86.2% (FY2018). The tool won the Department of Defense's 2018 Award for Supply Chain Excellence.

Who operates it

NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support, headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, owns and operates IRAS as an internal item-management tool; it was developed by the command's N61 (Operations Research & Analysis) team.

Access

IRAS is an internal NAVSUP WSS planning/item-management application, not a public-facing tool. Related NAVSUP WSS internal-user documentation references a System Authorization Access Request (SAAR) as part of the onboarding process for IRAS-adjacent tools, consistent with CAC-authenticated, SAAR-gated access for NAVSUP WSS personnel and their supporting contractors. The directory's stored primary URL is a third-party (rb.gy) shortened link that could not be resolved or verified during this review; it should be replaced with an official NAVSUP-hosted URL once one is confirmed, or the entry should note that IRAS has no public-facing page.

How logisticians use it

NAVSUP WSS item managers and buyers use IRAS to decide where repairable carcasses should go — a commercial contractor site, an organic Fleet Readiness Center, or elsewhere — based on current contract coverage and stock positions, so that repair actions keep pace with fleet demand without the Navy carrying uncovered inventory risk at a contractor's site.

Related systems

IRAS sits alongside other NAVSUP WSS item-management and supply-chain analytics tools; it works from the same repairable-asset and contract data that feeds NAVSUP WSS's broader supply support and asset-visibility functions.