What is best practice for dealing with Engineering Spare Parts?

[Former Member]

Hello All,

I am after some advice regarding the process for handling engineering spare parts in PM. (We run ECC 5)

Our current process is as follows:

All materials are set up as HIBE's

Each material is batch managed

The Batch field is used for the Bin location

We are now looking to role out PM to a site that has in excess of 50,000 spare parts and want to make sure we use best practice for handling the spare parts. We are now considering using a basic WM setup to handle the movement of parts.

Please can you provide me with some feedback on what you feel the best practice is for dealing with these parts?

We are looking to set up a solution that will us to generate pick lists etc and implment a scanning solution to move parts in and out of stores.

Regards

Chris

[Former Member]

Hi,

I hope all the 50000 spare parts are maintained as stock items.

1. Based on the usage of those spare parts, try to define safety stock & define MRP as "Reorder Point Planning". By this, you can avoid petty cash purchase.

2. By keeping the spare parts (atleast critical components) in stock, Planned Maintenance as well as unplanned maintenance will not get delayed.

3. By doing GI based on reservation, qty can be tracked against the order & equipment.

As this question is MM & WM related, they can give better clarity on this.

Regards,

Maheswaran.

[Former Member]

Thanks for your reply Maheswaran.

Yes all parts are maintained as Stock Items (HIBE's) and we use MRP to handle the replenisment of parts when required (using safety sock level)

I'm trying to get feedback on how other uses of Plant Maintance control there parts. i.e how they move parts in and out of stores.

Should WM be used as the standard solution or are there any other options available?

Regards

Chris

[Former Member]

All,

For information we have decided to implement WM to handle the management of spare parts at bin level.

We have used a fixed bin strategy to simplify the process.

Thanks

Chris

[Former Member]

If you have fixed bin strategy then you do not even need WM. That only adds additional steps to the process that are not necessary. You can still perform all the steps that you mentioned in initial post without WM or Batch Management.