Stores Management, Optimisation and Design
Inventory Management Outsourcing
- Dedicated SOS staff on site, managing the day to day running of your Maintenance/Engineering Stores
- Stock optimisation, analysis of stock movement, to optimise Min/Max levels, obsolescence, rationalisation, criticality and asset mapping
- Reduction of “Walk and Wait” time, utilising line side stock locations, KanBan and remote stock system access
- Either integrating and utilising your existing stock management system, or stand alone, using the SOS system
Vendor Reduction Program
- Identification and analysis of existing stock profile
- Highlight stock duplication
- Tail end supplier reduction
- Optimising supply chain and facilitating “difficult” transactions (i.e. overseas)
- Reduce Back Office transaction cost (order creation, expediting, invoice processing, returns etc.)
STORES IMPLEMENTATION/DESIGN/REDESIGN
- Project management
- Ground up stores design
- Redesign to optimise stores footprint
- Maximise stores capacity by utilising correct storage media
- Mezzanine floor installation
- Kardex/Carousel installation, systems and hardwear
- Parts cataloguing
- Stock Checking
Inventory Optimisation
- Analysis of usage data
- Identify slow moving/obsolete stock
- Archiving of slow/none moving stock (Chocolate Boxing)
- Stock write off processing
- Reduction of stock duplication utilising universal part numbers
- Min/Max profiling, using “Time/Need” matrix
Maintenance and Engineering Support
- PM Kitting
- Stock availability forward planning
- Asset mapping/Bill of materials (BOM)
- OEM Part conversion
- “Up Reving” of parts
- Cross over of obsolete parts
- Sourcing obsolete parts where cross over not possible
- Reverse Engineering
- Made to order parts
- Repair