Spare parts management rethought. From left to right: Dr. Lukas Biedermann, SPARETECH, Dr. Bernd Voelpel and Stephan Hihn, Leadec.
Leadec and SPARETECH combine their expertise in spare parts management
"We support our customers in the factory along the entire value chain. With our many years of experience in in-plant logistics and maintenance, we are now taking spare parts management to the next level together with our partner SPARETECH," explains Dr. Bernd Voelpel, Head of the Smart Factory Group at Leadec. Leadec brings its expertise from daily work in more than 300 factories worldwide to the partnership, SPARETECH its data processing and data provision software for industrial spare parts.
Higher spare parts availability thanks to data
On average, a company with several locations in the automotive or consumer goods industry holds spare parts worth more than 100 million euros, according to analyses by SPARETECH. That's between 90,000 and 350,000 different items in the ERP system, and the number is increasing by about 12 percent a year.
In order to be able to react quickly in the event of a production stoppage, companies keep a large number of spare parts in stock. Up to now, however, there has been no transparent data on which parts are available at which location - and this despite the fact that the common parts rate at many companies is 15-25 percent, in some cases it is over 40 percent. This is mainly due to poor data quality: up to two-thirds of all data records in the ERP system are incorrect. Typical sources of error are inconsistent spellings, hidden duplicates or recoded data records.
"This is where we come in with our solution. The first step is the unique identification of the spare parts. State-of-the-art technologies from the fields of semantic data management, big data and automated data processing are used here. In the second step, duplicates, discontinuations and common parts across locations are made visible and original manufacturer product information is added. The complete and error-free database is the basic prerequisite for cross-site inventory management, in which several plants access a central spare parts warehouse (inventory pooling). This reduces inventories and saves costs, while at the same time increasing availability," explain Martin Weber and Dr. Lukas Biedermann, the managing directors of SPARETECH.
Smart spare parts management and data-based maintenance
Particularly in start-up projects, which Leadec and SPARETECH manage on an ongoing basis for joint customers, the use of the solution pays off as soon as the first parts lists are checked. In addition, customers benefit from lower production costs through the combination of more efficient spare parts management with data-based production maintenance (PEM). Downtimes decrease, quality increases and companies have to invest less.
Leadec and SPARETECH already have their sights set on the spare parts management of the future: "In the next step, spare parts procurement can become even more flexible if several companies access a spare parts pool. Spare parts are supplied on demand and financing models can reduce tied-up capital by up to 90 percent - while at the same time increasing availability in production," says Stephan Hihn, who heads product management for Leadec in Europe.
About Leadec
Leadec is the leading global service specialist along the entire life cycle of the factory and the associated infrastructure. Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, the company employs around 18,000 people worldwide and generated sales of around EUR 830 million in 2020. For almost 60 years, Leadec has been supporting its customers along the entire value chain in production. The service provider is based at more than 300 locations, often directly in customers' plants.
Leadec's global services include: Engineer (factory planning and optimization, automation, and production IT), Install (electrical installation, mechanical installation, and machine relocation), Maintain (production maintenance and technical cleaning), Support (technical facility management, infrastructural facility management, and logistics), and other local services. The digital business platform Leadec.os is used to record all processes end-to-end and integrate the company's own digital services.
More about Leadec: www.leadec-services.com
Together, we have an eye on the spare parts management of the future and look forward to a successful collaboration.
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