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Purchasing factors
- Purchasing:
- 1. The time it takes to initiate and process a purchase order
- 2. The quantity of purchase orders processed within a designated time period
- 3. The quality of the purchasing process
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Quality factors
- Quality:
- 1. Delivered complete – all items delivered in the quantities requested
- 2. Delivered on time – using the customer’s definition of on-time delivery
- 3. Complete and accurate documentation (including packing slips, bills of landing,
- and invoices) to support the order
- 4. Delivered in perfect condition and in the correct configuration to be used by the
- customer, faultlessly installed ( as applicable)
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Flow of Materials factors
- Flow of Materials:
- 1. The quantity of materials processed through the factory in a designated time
- 2. The time it takes to process materials
- 3. The quality of materials processed
- 4. The cost of materials processed.
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What are Transportation and Packaging Factors?
- “Transportation requirements include the movement of humans and material
- resources, in support of both operational and maintenance activities, form one
- location to another. “
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Name transportation factors
- 1. Transportation routes (distances, number of nationalities, customs
- requirements political and social factors and so on)
- 2. Transportation capability or capacity (volume of goods transported,
- number of loads, ton-miles per year, frequency of transportation,
- modes of transportation, legal forms and so on)
- 3. Transportation time (e.g. mean delivery time)
- 4. Transportation cost (cost per shipment, cost of transportation, cost
- of packaging and handling, etc)
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What are transportation metrics
- Transportation
- Metrics:
- Must consider the
- a) Availability
- b) Reliability
- c) Maintainability
- d) Cost
- e) Time
- of transport
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What are packaging factors?
- 1. Strength of packaging material
- 2. Ability to withstand environmental conditions
- 3. Is the packaging compatible with existing
- transportation methods
- 4. Has the package been designed for safety and security.
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Warehouse and distribution factors - what is it
- The basic functions of warehousing are: movement, storage, and
- information transfer.
- Information transfer pertains to: product stock-keeping locations, tracking of
- product in transit, current inventory levels, facility space utilization, customer
- data, and so on……
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What are warehouse metrics
- 1. Time required to ship a product
- 2. The cost of each product shipment
- 3. The cost of inventory holding and management
- 4. Percentage of space utilization
- 5. Cost per area of utilization
- 6. Volume of products handled
- 7. Total number of products processed per year.
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What are Maintenance Organization Factors
- 1. The direct maintenance labor time:
- 2. The personnel turnover rate
- 3. The personnel training rate or the worker-days of formal training
- per year of system operation and support
- 4. Maintenance work orders processed per unit time
- 5. The average administrative delay time
- (the average time from when an item is initially received for
- maintenance to the point when active maintenance on that
- item actually begins).
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What are Spares, Repair Parts, and Related Inventory Factors
- Spares/repair part quantities are a function of demand rates and
- include consideration of the following:
- 1. The reliability of the item to be spared
- 2. The quantity of items used
- 3. The required probability that a spare will be available when
- needed
- 4. The criticality of item application with regard to mission success
- 5. Cost
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What are logistics
- “That part of the supply chain process that plans, implements,
- and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverse flow and storage of
- goods, services and related information between the point of origin and
- the point of consumption in order to meet customer requirements”
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What is supply chain
- – “That group of organizations and activities that pertain
- to the overall flow of materials and services from the various supplier
- sources to the customers”
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What is supply chain management
- “The systemic, strategic
- coordination of the traditional business functions within a
- particular company and across businesses within the supply chain,
- for the purposes of improving the long-term performance of the
- individual companies and the supply chain as a whole”
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Examples of quality factors
- The response time for the logistics and maintenance support
- infrastructure shall not exceed 4 h.
- 2. The total processing time, from the identification of a need for a product
- (or service) to the delivery of the product to the point of consumption ( or
- completion of the service) shall not exceed 24 h.
- 3. The total cost of processing an item through the logistics and maintenance
- support infrastructure (i.e. packaging, transportation, handling,
- documentation) shall not exceed x dollars.
- 4. The process time for removing an obsolete item from the inventory shall
- not exceed 12 hours, and the cost per item processed shall not exceed x
- dollars.
- 5. The defect rate in terms of products delivered (services provided) shall not
- exceed 1%.
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