BY ORDER OF THE COMMANDER
AIR FORCE MATERIEL COMMAND
AIR FORCE MATERIEL COMMAND
MANUAL 23-102
10 JUNE 2021
Materiel Management
COMPUTATION OF REQUIREMENTS
FOR EQUIPMENT ITEMS
COMPLIANCE WITH THIS PUBLICATION IS MANDATORY
ACCESSIBILITY: Publications and forms are available on the e-Publishing website at
www.e-publishing.af.mil.
RELEASABILITY: There are no releasability restrictions on this publication.
OPR: USAF/HQ AFMC/A4RM
Supersedes: AFMCMAN 23-4,
26 July 2011
Certified by: HQ AFMC/A4R
(Col Ray Jones)
Pages: 43
This manual implements Air Force Policy Directive (AFPD) 23-1, Supply Chain Materiel
Management. This manual applies to the Inventory Management Specialists (IMS), Equipment
Specialists (ES), Production Management Specialists (PMS), and Logistics Managers (LM) at all
Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) field units (except Aerospace Maintenance and
Regeneration Group [AMARG], and the United States Air Force (USAF) Medical Center, Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base (AFB). This publication does not apply to the Air Force Reserve
Command (AFRC) and Air National Guard (ANG) units. Attachment 1 contains a glossary of
references and is not mandatory for compliance. Compliance with Attachment 2 is mandatory.
This publication may be supplemented at any level, but all supplements must be routed to
Headquarters (HQ) AFMC/A4RM for coordination prior to certification and approval. Submit
requests for waivers using Air Force (AF) Form 679, Air Force Publication Compliance Item
Waiver Request/Approval, through the chain of command to the appropriate Tier waiver approval
authority, or alternately, to the Publication Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR) for non-tiered
compliance items. All requests for waiver must be approved by the publication OPR prior to
implementation. Copies of all approved waivers will be provided to HQ AFMC/A4RX, to include
waivers approved against the basic publication. Refer recommended changes and questions about
this publication to the OPR using AF Form 847, Recommendation for Change of Publication; route
AF Forms 847 from the field through the appropriate functional chain of command using the
following MANDATORY HQ AFMC/A4R e-AF Form 847 submission process. (T-2). Centers
will assign a primary and alternate POC to populate the HQ AFMC/A4R Publications Management
SharePoint, to include attaching a digitally signed AF Form 847 with Sections 1 and 2 completed
