maintenance departments. You should be familiar with the functions of the entire maintenance department. MATERIAL CONTROL RESPONSIBILITIES Within maintenance organizations, the material control centers (MCCs) are the contact point for parts and material requirements. The material control coordinates these requirements with the supporting supply activity. This activity may be the aviation support division or aviation stores division (ASD) of the supply department. Material control centers (MCCs) are functional areas within the maintenance organizations. It is tasked with the following: . Ensuring that maintenance requirements for parts and material are forwarded to ASD in a timely and continuous manner. . Ensuring that parts and material received are expeditious y routed to applicable work centers and not allowed to accumulate. It is the responsibility of the material control center to coordinate material ordering, receipt and delivery. This is done to ensure the material ordered is the material required, and that it reaches the work center within the specified time frame. The following texts describes how the MCC provides material support to the maintenance organization. l Establishing delivery and pickup points for material as mutually agreed on by supply and the aircraft maintenance officer. . Maintaining liaison with the supporting ASD on maintenance material matters to ensure the material needs of the organization are satisfied. . Preparing documents for material required for operational support of weapons systems. Some examples of required material are aviation fuel, lube oil, flight clothing, and general supplies. l Furnishing technical advice and information to the supply activity on the identity and quantity of supplies, parts, and materials. l Establishing procedures to ensure proper operation of toolrooms and the performance of tool inventories. l Ensuring surveys are prepared in the event of loss, damage, or destruction of accountable material. . Keeping maintenance control advised of the overall supply situation and its effect on maintenance. . Performing memorandum operating target (OPTAR) funding, accounting, charting, and budgeting of costs. . Maintaining accountability of material and equipment on custody. l Maintaining inventory control of authorized allowances of material listed in the individual material readiness list (IMRL) and authorized allowance lists. . Validating Not Mission Capable Supply/Partial Mission Capable Supply (NMCS/PMCS) requisitions daily. Maintaining current NMCS/PMCS status records by aircraft bureau number. l Performing aircraft inventory upon receipt or transfer of an aircraft. The inventory maybe performed with technical assistance from others. Ensuring inventory log entries are made and shortage listings are prepared and forwarded to maintenance control for inclusion into the aircraft inventory record (AIR). . Maintaining control/records to ensure turn-in of defective repairable components within established time frames. NOTE: When using a VIDS/MAF to turn in a defective component, enter the same document number used to requisition the replacement item. ORDERING PARTS AND MATERIAL Work centers and support areas forward requests for parts and material to MCC. These may be material required in support of weapons systems maintenance or administrative areas. These are known as direct and indirect support requirements. Direct support consists of MAF-related material requirements needed to complete a maintenance action. Indirect support consists of material requirements NOT related to the maintenance action form (MAF). The MCC is responsible for entering the data listed in the following text in the material control register. NOTE: For activities using the NALCOMIS system, refer to the user’s manual for procedures. . Enter the ORGANIZATION CODE in the register. This is a three-character, alphanumeric code that identifies an organization. It identifies the organization that originally assigned the JCN to a maintenance action. In case of transient aircraft, the JCN will contain the organization code of the aircraft 8-2