Posted in Basic Supply Chain Concepts, tagged Accenture on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Who is writing Accenture’s white papers?
Articles can be motivated by inspiration, or frustration. Neither motivation is more or less valid than the other. This post is definitely motivated by the later. We thought we might learn something by reading a white paper on service management that was produced by Accenture back in 2003. Guess again. [...]
Posted in Basic Supply Chain Concepts, SAP, tagged Automotive, eBay, Spare Parts, Supplier Collaboration on May 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
New Information
In a previous post we wrote about the inefficiency of automotive service parts networks.
http://spplan.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/auto-service-part-networks-are-a-mess/
The line of reasoning of the article was that manufacturers were unnecessarily outsourcing the management of service parts too low in the supply chain – at the dealer level and the auto service parts could be greatly improved in their management [...]
Posted in Basic Supply Chain Concepts, SAP, tagged Apple, Environment, Spare Parts on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Where Are Service Parts in the Environmental Discussion?
Not sufficiently discussed is why service parts effectiveness is good for the environment. The same family that dutifully recycles, may also be the same family that trades in a car after 3 years for a newer model. Many electronics items are designed never to be serviced, or [...]
Posted in Basic Supply Chain Concepts, MCA, SAP, tagged Parts, Spare on May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What is a Target Stocking Level?
The first time we heard of Target Stocking Level was on an MCA project. This is the actual output of the Strategy module of MCA SPO. We have listed a short definition from MCA’s SPO Glossary.
“TSL is the quantity available to meet demand within the lead time and thus becomes [...]
Posted in Basic Supply Chain Concepts, SAP, Service Parts Database, tagged Amazon.com, Automotive, eBay, Fourth Party Logistics Providers, Honda, Spare Parts on May 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Caught in a Time Warp
It is always amazing to come upon a technology that is so amazingly underutilized. This would be the case for service parts online databases.
The Story
We needed a door handle assembly part for a 1997 Honda Accord. First we started with eBay, which really had a pretty small inventory. We could only [...]
Posted in Basic Supply Chain Concepts, Performance Based Logistics, tagged Inventory Management, Service Level Planning, Spare Parts on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Performance Based Logistics is a much discussed concept in the military and among defense contractors. However, this post questions whether it is an authentic trend based upon the incentive structures of the military and their suppliers.
PBL as a Trend
PBL has become a strong trend among the management class of companies in the A&D environment [...]
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