(ILS). Integrated logistics support (ILS) is a management function focused on assuring that the user will receive a system that will not only meet performance requirements, but can be supported throughout its lifecycle.
To provide customers with reliable service through a systematic approach of simultaneous management and acquisition of equipment and logistics facilities. Life cycle cost can therefore be maintained at an optimum level for effective supply chain management.
disciplined approach to activities necessary to a) cause support considerations to be integrated into product design b) develop support arrangements that are consistently related to design and to each other c) provide the necessary support at the beginning and during customer use at optimum cost.
A disciplined, unified, and iterative approach to achieving the integration of support considerations into system and equipment design; the development of support requirements that are related directly to readiness objectives; the acquisition of required support; and the provision of required support during the operational phase at minimum cost.
The systematic approach applied to simultaneous management and acquisition of equipment and related logistics support, in order to provide the customer with a desired level of availability. Resulting in an optimum life cycle cost and to maintain this level through the entire life cycle.
Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) is the management process which facilitates development and integration of the 10 individual logistic support elements to specify, design, develop, acquire, test, field, and support systems.