IHS HAYSTACK® Gold

Quick access to comprehensive parts information is critical for both government organizations and commercial contractors. 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.

To meet your needs, IHS offers Haystack Gold, a complete parts and logistics management system. It 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. Using IHS Haystack Gold will significantly cut down the time you spend researching hard-to-find parts, maximizing supply chain effectiveness.

HAYSTACK contains 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 military databases. Access to the National Forging Tooling Database (NFTD) provides visibility to spare parts and tooling. Superior search engine capabilities enable users to search by a wide range of criteria, databases, or other commands to returns hundreds of thousands of relevant results in seconds. Search by:

• National Stock Number (NSN)
• Part number
• CAGE code
• Company name
• Technical characteristics
• Product Item Description (PID) data
• and many other parameters

With HAYSTACK'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.

Engineering

• Locate alternate sources of supply
• Increase efficiency of design, component, test, and quality assurance processes
• Improve product development cycle time
• Avoid part duplication
• Meet engineering design requirements
• Search by technical characteristics of parts
• Augment internal part references and legacy data
• Ensure cleansed and standardized information
• Enhance DMSMS capabilities
• Quickly locate past vendors
• Manage risk of part and material obsolescence

Acquisition/Purchasing

• Identify sources for parts - including supplier contact information and pricing
• Maximize negotiating power
• Locate alternate sources of supply
• Pinpoint products purchased by specific government agencies
• View consolidated award history data

Supply/Maintenance/Repair

• Streamline internal processes
• Strengthen MRO responses
• Quickly identify and retrieve existing parts information
• Reduce high costs associated with part duplication
• Support FMS and maintain older equipment
• Access obsolete part numbers and NSNs

Marketing/Sales

• Uncover new business prospects to expand your business
• View information on more than 135,000 companies currently selling to the U.S. Government
• Research the specifics of DoD bid opportunities and other RFQs
• Monitor competitors' activities
• Track pricing trends

Cataloguing/Codification

• Verify part and supplier information
• Improve data cleansing and augmentation
• Flexible search capabilities