HAYSTACK® Gold - Parts and Logistics Solution

HAYSTACK Gold provides immediate information on more than 100 million items in the U.S. Federal Supply Catalog and over 40 U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and related databases. HAYSTACK Gold contains advanced search features to locate a part number, determine its manufacturer, and identify alternative sources of supply through the massive aggregate of government procurement catalogs. 

Fast Facts on HAYSTACK Gold

The subscription to HAYSTACK Gold makes all of this data available for flexible online searching right from your desktop.  This includes not only the Federal Supply Catalog, but also other valuable databases that greatly expand the scope of both spare part searches and business prospecting:

• The Procurement History database --  provides both government and industry sectors access to  government and defense procurements that includes outmoded identification numbers.
• The Inventory Locator Services (ILS) --  inventory data information link within HAYSTACK Gold from one of the world's largest and most active e-marketplace for the aviation, marine, and defense industries.
• The APL (Allowance Parts List) database --  the Navy’s general distribution list that cross-references part numbers from top-down to bottom-up part assemblies.

The HAYSTACK Gold subscription service offers a wealth of information and gives the advance and flexible querying capabilities that generates real value to your business. The FLIS (Federal Logistics Information System) is the primary HAYSTACK Gold database, which includes Federal Supply Catalog data. The FLIS can be searched by: 

• National Stock Number (NSN)
• Part Number
• Company Name
• Item Name
• CAGE code
• FSC (Federal Supply Code)
• SOS (Source of Supply)
• Product Item Description (PID)
• Technical characteristics

…as well as many other parameters.

The HAYSTACK Gold parts and logistics service gains added value when used in tandem with the comprehensive IHS Specs & Standards Service, which allows seamless searching between information contained in both products. The cross-reference  in the HAYSTACK Gold PSDT (Procurement Specification/Drawing/Technical publication) database brings up all of the IHS Specs & Standards documents related to a specific parts record. This cross-referencing allows you to locate parts and sources according to their standards or mil-spec compliance.

HAYSTACK Gold search tools are also certified to operate on many organization-specific platforms and according to special user requirements:

• All IHS products comply with U.S. DoD ETA (Joint Technical Architecture) standards.
• IHS complies with U.S. DISA (Defense Information Service Agency) standards.
• IHS is U.S. Air Force ACACIA (Air Combat Command Interim Security) accredited.
• IHS products comply with the U.S. FAR 508 Rehabilitation Act and are accessible to people with disabilities.

With integration into your existing systems, HAYSTACK Gold can play a central role in managing the complexities of parts procurement, inventory, and obsolescence planning.  Organizations that integrate the HAYSTACK Gold resource directly into their business applications report vast savings in the elimination of duplicate part orders, greater productivity, and proactive response to issues of part availability.

Why HAYSTACK Gold Isn't free - But Worth Every Penny
We know you can find a lot of this information for free out there somewhere on the internet , but do you know where? And is all that time you spend searching really the best use of your time? Not when we’ve made it this easy. With HAYSTACK Gold, you have everything you need accessible with a single search so you get the exact information you need, when you need it.

The Parts & Logistics Management System that Meets Your Needs
This complete parts and logistics management system provides crucial, integrated and interoperable logistics information so that processes can be automated, labor and research costs reduced, and new levels of efficiency and return on investment realized. HAYSTACK Gold will significantly cut down the time you spend researching hard-to-find parts, maximizing supply chain effectiveness by giving you a single access point for this disparate information. Is your time better spent searching on the internet or quickly getting the information you need when you need it?

Spend Less Time Researching Hard-to-Find Parts
Providing crucial, integrated and interoperable logistics information, with HAYSTACK Gold processes can be automated, labor and research costs reduced, and new levels of efficiency and return on investment realized. Using HAYSTACK Gold will significantly cut down the time you spend researching hard-to-find parts and help maximize supply chain effectiveness.

Make Better Decisions with Simple or Batch Search Functionality
Whether you are conducting a simple search to verify a NSN or part number, or a timesaving batch search for thousands of items in one operation, your mission is dependent on fast, accurate and reliable data. With HAYSTACK Gold's breadth of content and superior indexing, you get the information necessary to make the decisions related to your specific job function and the ability to focus on what is truly important: the projects you're managing to support your mission.

Empower Your Organization

HAYSTACK Gold provides a single source of information to users across the organization who need vital parts information.

Engineers
HAYSTACK Gold delivers critical decision support information for engineers, allowing your organization to:

• Streamline important engineering processes including design, component, test, and quality assurance
• Determine if required parts already exist so you can avoid expensive development cycles and part duplication.
• Identify new and alternate supply sources by searching on the technical characteristics of a needed part.
• Quickly ensure that parts meet all engineering design requirements.
• Enhance part and material obsolescence management capabilities with complete information on Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS), as well as information about past vendors.
• Extend existing parts data including internal parts reference sources and data from legacy systems by downloading cleansed and standardized information from HAYSTACK Gold .

Purchasing/Acquisition
Improve procurement and supply chain efficiency by enabling purchasing professionals to:

• Locate sources for parts even if you have incomplete information.
• Find what you need to know about each supplier, including pricing and contact information.
• Strengthen negotiating capabilities with access to the actual prices paid by the government.
• Identify alternate suppliers to ensure critical parts are always available.
• Leverage consolidated award history information to view products purchased by a specific government agency

Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO)
Reduce the high costs of MRO parts acquisition by enabling users to:

• Expedite the parts research process to respond more quickly to MRO requests.
• Quickly identify existing parts to avoid expensive part duplication.
• Access obsolete part number and NSNs to identify alternate sources
• Provide support for Foreign Military Sales (FMS)
• Enable maintenance of older equipment

Sales and Marketing
Develop new business opportunities by arming your sales and marketing teams with the ability to:

• Access information about over 135,000 organizations who sell to the U. S. government.
• View details of U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) bid opportunities and related Request for Information (RFQs).
• Monitor trends in pricing for government purchases
• Track activities of competitors

Catalog data validation
Use information from HAYSTACK Gold to ensure your internal information is complete and accurate by:

• Validating parts data and supplier information in your internal systems against HAYSTACK Gold
• Utilizing HAYSTACK Gold data as a reference source in data cleansing, standardization and enrichment activities