Posted in Baxter, Enigma, Service Parts Database, Service Parts Networks on June 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What is a 4PL?
A fourth party logistics providers is a company that holds no physical logistics assets, but coordinates the supply chain though its access to monitoring data and IT. You can read more about this intermediary structure here.
http://fourthpartylogistics.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/fourth-party-logistics-providers/
4PLs apply for both finished goods and service parts, however, in this post we will focus on [...]
Posted in EPC, Enigma, PLM on May 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What Is the Difference?
It’s only though a discussion with a vendor of “electronic parts catalogs” that we understood that this is the most common nomenclature used to describe what we describe as a service parts database. We cover service parts databases in this post below.
http://spplan.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/service-part-maintenance-databases/
Electronic parts catalogs are complex and have special needs [...]
Posted in Enigma, Inventory Optimization, MCA, SAP, SPP, Service Parts Planning Basics, tagged Amazon.com, Automotive, Enigma, GM, Honda, Spare Parts on May 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Big Problems in Automotive Service Networks
In our previous post we discussed the problems with how automotive service parts websites are dominated by dealers. We also discussed how this is completely inefficient and why these web sites should be centralized and either managed by the manufacturer, or simply outsourced. http://spplan.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/auto-service-parts-websites-a-problem/
However, after further research it turns out [...]
Posted in Enigma, PLM, Plant Maintenance, SAP, SPP, Service Parts Database, tagged Equipment Master, Service Management, Spare Parts on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Service Part and Service Maintenance Database Background
Service parts require extensive documentation because of the need to capture information from service calls. Successive service calls (in addition to other research performed by the service technicians). This is of critical importance to service organizations, and the requirements for doing this would not seem to vary greatly from [...]
Posted in Enigma, MTBF, tagged Forecasting, Spare Parts on January 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Service parts for this airplane can be predicted based upon installed base and usage. The math for doing this is simple and present in multiple service parts planning applications. However, the problem is that most companies do not invest in the data maintenance.
What Type of Demand?
All service part demand is dependent demand. That is [...]
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