1. INSTRUCTIONS TO DOWNLOAD LOGISTICS COST ESTIMATING TOOL (LCET) OFF THE WEB:
 1. Go to the following address on the Internet:
2. Click on the Directions to Download LCET
3. Double click on the Version you want to Download:
- LCETCOMP if you have COMPASS on your PC
- LCETNOCOMP if COMPASS is not on your PC
4. Click the “Run” or “Open” Button Under “File Download”. Click “Run” again if Get Security Warning
5. Click the “Unzip” Button. Click “Close” after Unzipping
6. Go to the Unzipped Folder on Your PC & Follow Instructions in “Installing LCET.doc”
7. Must have Admininstrative Rights to Install LCET 
This section of the course will show a simple sample run of the Logistics Cost Estimating Tool (LCET). LCET is available to the general public and is obtainable by downloading it from the web. This slide contains instructions for downloading LCET.
There will be 2 options for downloading LCET. One version of LCET does not interface at all with the Computerized Optimization Model for Predicting and Analyzing Support Structures (COMPASS) making it purely a standalone tool. The other version permits the user to interface with the COMPASS model.

2. LOGISTICS COST ESTIMATING TOOL (LCET) SAMPLE SCREENS
C-E LCMC DCSOPS Systems Analysis Division
LCET & COMPASS Help Desk:
DSN or (732)
The presentation to be shown will contains screens from a demonstration run of the Logistics Cost Estimating Tool (LCET). It is intended to give you an idea of what LCET looks like and how it works.
The demonstration slides were obtained from the Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command (C-E LCMC) Systems Analysis Division. The Army C-E LCMC help desk provides assistance to anyone who has questions, needs clarification or needs help in running the LCET.
The same help desk also provides assistance for Computerized Optimization Model for Predicting and Analyzing Support Structures (COMPASS) usage. However, the official Army help desk and teaching of COMPASS comes from Army’s Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) in Huntsville, AL. Although the LCET contains built-in help screens and provides the ability to document input data values used in a run, these capabilities will not be shown in the demonstration.

3. The first screen is the main menu for LCET
The first screen is the main menu for LCET. LCET is made up of two tools: the Time Phased COMPASS and the Logistics Cost Spreadsheet. The Logistics Cost Spreadsheet is a standalone tool or it can be used in conjunction with Time Phased COMPASS. For this demonstration, the Logistics Cost Spreadsheet will be used together with Time Phased COMPASS. Clicking the “Create New Time Phased COMPASS Spreadsheet” button will begin the demonstration.

4. To execute the Time Phased COMPASS Spreadsheet, the buttons with steps at the top are clicked from left to right. After clicking the “Step 1: Open COMPASS Files” button, the user will select the name of the COMPASS input file to be imported and time phased and also select the name the COMPASS policy output file, which contains the maintenance concept to be used. The maintenance concept may come from an optimization run of COMPASS or an evaluation run of a specific maintenance policy.
As you can tell, all the screens in the sample run are not being shown. This screen shows the names of the input file and output policy file already selected in red.
Also, a different screen not shown asks the user to indicate whether the system to be analyzed is a new system that has not been fielded, a legacy system that has already been fielded or a partially fielded system. If a fully fielded legacy system is identified, just the recurring, yearly support costs from a COMPASS analysis will be calculated in the Time Phased COMPASS worksheet.
Then, the button for Step 2 is clicked for entering time phasing data or changing data from the COMPASS run.

5. After clicking on Step 2, the Inputs worksheet form appears and is filled in by the user with the time phasing data.
The time frame of the analysis is entered first, which is 2001 through 2010 for this demonstration. Then, the number of systems to be fielded in each year is entered next, which was 200 per year for 3 years in the demonstration. Also, the number of maintenance or supply support shops at the Organizational Unit (ORGs) level, Direct Support (DS) level and General Support (GS) level that will be added in each year to support the timed phased fielding is entered. For this demonstration, 30 ORGs, 10 DS units and 1 GS unit of support were added per year for 3 years.
With the advent of two level maintenance representing just field and sustainment maintenance, there may sometimes actually be a second level of sustainment maintenance. One level would be at the Continental United States (CONUS) depot and the other being a Forward Repair Activity in a theater of operation modeled as a GS. Supply support may actually have supply activities below Brigade (ORG), at the Brigade level (DS), a theater level supply (GS) and the wholesale supply level in CONUS.
The button for Step 3 is clicked for calculating the Time Phased COMPASS costs. Clicking on the button for Step 4 will show a view of these costs.

6. The Results worksheet of the Time Phased COMPASS costs will appear after clicking on Step 4: View Costs button. For the demonstration, a screen like the one shown will appear from the Years 2001 to 2010.
All the COMPASS logistics support cost categories are listed in Column A on this spreadsheet.

7. This chart shows the remaining years of the Time Phased COMPASS sample run. Besides showing the COMPASS logistics support costs in constant dollars for each year, the Totals column shows the total cost associated with each COMPASS logistics support category.
When COMPASS is used, it determines the cost effective steady state maintenance and supply support concepts based only on the Net Present Value of the total support costs computed. LCET will permit annualized support costs to be shown in Net Present Value dollars, Constant dollars or Future dollars.
Using the Excel Save and Close commands will save the Time Phased COMPASS Spreadsheet and return the user to the main menu of LCET.

8. Clicking the “Create New Logistics Cost Spreadsheet” button will cause a new Logistics Cost Spreadsheet to be generated.

9. After clicking on the “Create New Logistics Cost Spreadsheet” button, this menu appears. Since the demonstration is to use the Logistics Cost Spreadsheet tool in conjunction with the Time Phased COMPASS tool, clicking on the “Import COMPASS Fielding and Cost Data” button is done next.

10. After clicking the “Import COMPASS Fielding and Cost Data” button, the Time Phased COMPASS results spreadsheet desired to be imported is selected. Cost results of the selected file are combined and captured into 10 of the 25 Logistics Cost Categories covered by LCET. This is a screen of the Phased COMPASS Costs worksheet, which imported the cost data from the selected Time Phased COMPASS spreadsheet.
The rows in gray that are left blank are logistics support costs that the Time Phased COMPASS does not calculate. COMPASS only calculates the maintenance and supply support related costs.

11. Fielding data from the selected Time Phased COMPASS Input worksheet can also be imported into the Fielding Schedule worksheet used to determine Logistics Cost Spreadsheet costs.
The number of systems fielded in each year and the number of maintenance and supply shops are shown as having been imported into the “Fielding Schedule” worksheet. If the Logistics Cost Spreadsheet was to be used as a standalone tool, this data would need to be typed directly into the cells on this worksheet.

12. In order to calculate the logistics costs that the Time Phased COMPASS does not consider, the User clicks on the “Calculate Costs” worksheet and uses the macros on this sheet to calculate their costs.
First, the “General” button is clicked to input mission and operating tempo data before entering any cost category data. Each cost category has a button in column A. The macros within the LCET Cost Category is executed by clicking the numbered buttons.

13. After the “General” button is clicked, the Mission Profiles screen appears. The operating tempo input data on this screen needs entries for the hours per mission or miles per mission and corresponding entries for the number of missions expected per year.
After inputting the Mission Profile values, the OK button is clicked.

14. Clicking the OK button brings the user back to the Calculate Costs spreadsheet. In order to calculate the equipment’s logistics costs using the Logistics Cost Spreadsheet tool, the numbered buttons next to the cost categories are selected and input screens for the selected cost category macro will appear so that its input data can be captured.
For the demonstration example, button number 2 for Energy costs was selected first.

15. After selecting button number 2, the Batteries and Fuel Cost macro will appear so that the user can fill in the batteries or fuel inputs that apply to the system. Note that the different input folders will permit the costs for many different types of batteries to be computed if they apply to the system.
In this demonstration, only one Non-Rechargeable Battery applied. When all the inputs are made, the OK button is selected. If Petroleum, Oil and Lubrication (POL) costs applied or if more than one type of battery had applied, the appropriate folder tab would have been clicked instead of the OK button.
If Help is selected by hitting the F1 key, all the input variables and how they are used in computations will be defined and explained.

16. After clicking on the OK button, the energy costs for the demonstrated system will appear on the “Calculate Costs” worksheet.
Suppose there are Field Support costs associated with the system. Then button number 3 is clicked to obtain Field Support inputs.

17. Data relating to the cost of the Material Fielding Teams was filled in on this slide. Since costs associated with Civilian Logistics Assistance Representatives (LARs) are also applicable Field Support Costs associated with the system, the Civilian LARs tab was also clicked rather than clicking the OK button.

18. This screen pictures the demonstration data entered related to computing the system specific costs associated with Civilian Logistics Assistance Representatives (LARs). LAR costs are based on the the average cost per man-year and the system related man-years of LAR effort expected in each year.
After all the Field Support inputs are entered, the OK button is clicked.

19. After clicking the OK button, the Field Support costs will also appear on the “Calculate Costs” worksheet.
The demonstration clicked on button number 4 for the Repair Labor next.

20. A screen with this message appears to let the user know that Repair Labor costs is one of the costs calculated by Time Phased COMPASS.
If data was not imported from the Time Phased COMPASS worksheet, then an input screen macro with folders like the ones for the Energy and Field Support costs would have appeared for entering Repair Labor time and cost inputs.

21. After all inputting and build up of costs in the “Calculate Costs” worksheet is finished, the user may go to the “Total Costs” worksheet.
The Total Costs are the combined costs from all the worksheets that make up the Logistics Cost Spreadsheet tool. These include worksheets from “Phased COMPASS Costs” and “Calculate Costs”.
It is also possible the Total Cost worksheet may include worksheets of Other Costs by fund type if these costs were additionally obtained from off-line computations of cost estimates. However, off-line cost computations were not part of this demonstration.

22. This slide shows continues with the “Total Costs” worksheet from the demonstration.
The total costs by logistics cost category and by fiscal year are summed after capturing the yearly costs over the analysis timeframe. The last column displays the percent of each logistics cost category’s contribution to the equipment’s total logistics cost.

23. When the cost community accomplishes a Life Cycle Cost estimate on a system, they estimate the annual costs by fund type or budget appropriation.
Clicking the “Show Costs By Appropriation” button within the “Menu” will display the “Total Cost” spreadsheet data sorted by fund appropriation.

24. The logistics cost estimates by fund appropriation for each applicable Logistics Cost category are displayed in the “Appropriations” spreadsheet. The “Appropriation” sheet shows the final outcomes of LCET cost totals for each year by fund type.

25. If the user desires to export the LCET Logistics Cost Spreadsheet tool appropriations data outcomes into the Army standard Automated Cost Estimating Integrated Tool (ACEIT), the “Copy LCET Costs To ACEIT” button in the Logistics Cost Spreadsheet “Menu” is clicked.

26. When the LCET Logistics Costs by Appropriation are successfully transferred into ACEIT, a message will appears saying that the copy to ACEIT was successful.
After going into ACEIT, these LCET costs will be pasted into ACEIT by clicking on the “Paste (ACE Row)” under the “Edit” menu.

27. This screen shows one of the ways in which the LCET costs can be integrated into ACEIT after they have been pasted.

28. This screen shows an ACEIT Report Phased by Budget Year.
These demonstration slides that were presented show how data from the COMPASS model was electronically transferred and used by the LCET. It also showed how logistics cost estimates were generated in LCET. Finally, the demonstration showed how total costs by year by fund appropriation were electronically transferred into ACEIT.
Since ACEIT will cover the generation of the non-logistics acquisition cost estimates, it can be used to complete the Life Cycle Cost Estimate.