In scheduling and controlling the upgrading of major assets such as a
capital ship, the need for upgrades to various elements found on ships
are determined, and the upgrade of each piece of equipment is documented
as a change product. The change product documentary information is
entered into a database, and correlated with information identifying
those major assets, which use such products, thereby associating one or
more major assets with a change product order. The major assets are
scheduled for upgrade on some basis. A promised delivery date of
alteration kits, manuals, or other material is obtained from the various
vendors. The database may be interrogated at any time in relation to a
major asset upgrade, to thereby determine the promised delivery date of
the most distant delivery date of yet-undelivered material. The most
distant delivery date is deemed to be the integrated logistic support
date.