OPTIMIZING INVENTORY FOR A MAINTENANCE PROGRAM

THE CUSTOMER PROBLEM

Inventory planning for a maintenance program schedule was difficult, resource intensive and causing delays to a program. Multiple systems for engineering design, engineering project planning and inventory built on 1980s technology were in use offering no or limited connectivity between

THE SEATEC SOLUTION

Consultants with aerospace manufacturing expertise established a cross business program team with suppliers to own the problem

Identified business process opportunities with and without a technology solution and selected the highest value projects

Connected systems by developing interfaces to pull and harmonize data from multiple sources.

Automated data analysis, built exception based inventory alerting, and built inventory forecasts

Managed the change then trained and provided documentation that enabled the customer to independently operate the solution

THE CUSTOMER BENEFIT

A solution that optimized the system and avoided large capital expenditure– Domain expertise and strong alignment with stakeholders, including inventory suppliers enabled process deficiencies and systems to be optimized without a major systems investment

Improved inventory management – reduced the time to produce a project inventory report from 8 hours to 1 minute

Greater data integrity – introduced proven automation techniques to produce reliable, clean data that enabled improved data analysis

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