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Optimizing Maintenance Inventories and Stockrooms - 2 Day Course Agenda
Day 1:
Vision and Overview for the Stockroom and the Spares Stored There
World class maintenance and the inventory system necessary to support it
Appropriate organizational set-up
How the inventory and a stockroom fits into the big maintenance picture
Some Basics
What are the functions of the maintenance inventory?
Types and uses of inventory
Inventory that is not really inventory
Different categories mean different management strategies:
Insurance Policy spares
Capital spares
Consumables
Some Basics
Layout ideas to improve flow and usability of the storeroom
Procedures and policies for storeroom layout
Preservation, security and safety of materials
Counting strategies, including cycle counting and counting frequency
Day 2:
The Economic Stockroom
Economic analysis of inventory control models
EOQ
Safety stock
Minimum/maximum
ROP
Cost of acquisition
True costs of maintaining a storeroom
Benchmarking maintenance inventory
Our top ways to save money in the storeroom
Tried and True Strategies with Computerization
Inventory start-up issues, including
Parts catalog
Parts numbering strategies
Parts naming strategies
Data necessary to manage your inventory
Using the CMMS to manage inventory
Dealing with the Parts Themselves
Procurement: purchasing, parts interchange, and supplier identification
Obsolete/redundant/surplus materials
Reasons for obsolescence
Minimizing the impact of obsolescence
Reasons to carry some surplus items
Least cost strategies for identifying and disposing of surplus or obsolete items
True cost of a spare part
Standardization and codification issues
ABC inventory management
E-MRO
Maintenance/inventory issues:
Rebuild verses new
Make versus buy
OEM verses make outside considerations
Strategies for transferring some of the inventory function workload and capital
Consignment
Vendor contracts
Rack jobbing
Offsite guarantees
Outsourcing