Partium

Parts desk tribal knowledge leaves with the expert. Four kinds of knowledge to capture, and a one-week exercise to find what the catalogue can't answer.

Spare parts supplier consolidation works when you count who makes each part before you count who sells it. One class at a time, with maintenance signing.

A spare parts naming convention is five rules applied in a fixed order. Build one on a real part, then apply it class by class to the catalog you have.

The spare parts lead time in your material master was set once and is read every day. Keep it true where it counts: on the parts your plant needs most.

Many parts hotline calls come from customers who could not find the part in the portal. How to sort them, and what self-service spare parts ordering needs.

Before spare parts master data moves to S/4HANA, split it: leave dead records behind, merge duplicates, complete the rest. Then keep the checks running.

MRO spend analysis by supplier shows who gets the money. Taken to the part, it shows where to save: one part, its price spread and what it should cost.

A duplicate group saves nothing until it is merged. Merge duplicate material records in an order maintenance accepts, and count the savings part by part.

What is this part? When the label is worn and the number is gone, collect every clue the part and the machine still carry, and let each one narrow the search.

Identifying critical spare parts starts with what happens when one is missing. Four facts per part make your critical spares list hold in a stock review.