Efficient and cross-location spare parts management

For manufacturing companies such as the WEPA Group, efficient production and maintenance are crucial to remaining competitive in the international market and further expanding their market position. Particularly in spare parts management, there is still great potential for optimization in internationally active companies, both in the area of spare parts inventories and machine availability.

High data quality in the material master is the key to efficient and cross-location spare parts management.

In the video, WEPA Hygieneprodukte GmbH shows its path to efficient and cross-location spare parts management. Thanks to the software solution and collaboration with SPARETECH, WEPA could clean up its inhomogeneous and partially inconsistent database of 170,000 data records and complete it with original manufacturer data. Duplicates and discontinuations were identified so that the data quality in the global material master was significantly increased. After the successful roll-out of the software and the processes developed for the company, all 13 WEPA plants now use the SPARETECH app for their spare parts search and new material creation. Automating the processes could significantly reduce the manual effort and the search times for spare parts.

SPARETECH can process even extensive spare parts lists and parts lists of new machines and plants. Intelligent matching technology automatically matches the existing spare parts data with the material master and the SPARETECH database. This prevents the creation of new duplicates, and products that do not yet exist are automatically created with original manufacturer data.

"The software quickly generated enthusiasm among maintenance staff at the plants," explains Timo Thomas, Group Maintenance Manager at WEPA, citing that together with SPARETECH, they have managed to "maintain full control of our data and inventory across 13 sites throughout Europe."

"The transparency that SPARETECH provides helps us to avoid any availability risks when reducing inventory."

Stefan Pfannkuchen
Head of Engineering & Maintenance at the WEPA Group

Key Outcomes

The successful cooperation with WEPA Hygieneprodukte GmbH shows impressively how much potential can be exploited through efficient, cross-location spare parts management. We look forward to what is yet to come in this successful collaboration.