how to improve uptime with parts inventory management

How to improve customer uptime with Parts Retail Inventory Management

COPYRIGHT © SYNCRON 2014

Syncron is the global leader in aftermarket service optimization

• Dealer Management and

Aftermarket Specialist

– Inventory management

– Price Management

– Analytics

• Customers are multinational

companies

– Active users in more than 100

countries

– R&D intensive, investing >20% of

revenue

Meet the Presenter:

• MD Syncron Inc.

• Dealer Inventory

Management Specialist

• 15 years experience of

driving global supply

chain transformation

initiatives

Tomas Wennerstein Managing Director, North America


Table of contents

• Parts Retail Inventory Management, what is it?

• Why there is often a high ROI potential

• Daimler Trucks Case Study

• Some practical examples of RIM planning


The availability challenge

Central Warehouse250,000 part numbers

98% Availability

Regional Warehouse30,000 to 100,000

part numbers95% Availability

Local Service Location3,000 to 5,000 part

numbers55% Availability

60%+ Rush orders

“customers are up to 50% less likely to consider the manufacturer in a future purchase if they have a poor repair

experience”


Drivers for Retail Inventory Management programs

Retail Inventory Management aim is to:

• Increased availability and especially for Critical items

• Increase part sales

• Ensure dealer loyalty

• Financially stable dealers

• Reduce stock obsolescence in the network

• Reduce warehousing costs at central depots

• Reduce distribution costs by reducing air freight costs

• Have clear management information across the network

• Reduce manual effort by dealers for managing inventories


RIM the solution

DC Level

Suppliers

Regional Level

Branded Distributors/Dealers

Multi Brand Dealers

Sales Companies/Consignment (Service vans)

Region A Region B Region C Region D

End Customer

Scope


RIM the solution

OEM

Dealer DMS

RIMSolution

Order Confirmation

Confirmed sales order - OEM

Confirmed purchase order - DMS

Parts masterdata

Part /stock infoSales info

Access via browser

Access via browser

• Dealers and OEM send necessary information to the solution an agreed interval

• Via web browser, the Dealers and the OEM access the functionality and the data that that involves their respective relevant Use Cases


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Key Reasons for high ROI

Inventory Management skills are negatively correlated with distance from OEM/DC and the number of tiers away in the Supply Chain

System support is often lacking at the dealer/subsidiary level

1. OEM has a lot of vital information directly relevant to Inventory Management close to the Customer

2. Dealer/Distributor has a lot of vital information directly relevant to Inventory Management at DC/RDC level



OEM has a lot of vital information directly relevant to Inventory Management close to the Customer:

• Recommended stock lists

• Critical stock lists

• Supersession information

• Experience from other markets (If existing)

• Stock and excess stock Visibility Etc..

There is often no or a fragmented approaches to ensuring that these dimensions are considered in the inventory management closest to the customer

OEMDealer



OEMSubsidiary

Dealer

Dealer/Distributor has a lot of vital information directly relevant to Inventory Management at DC/RDC level

• For certain product groups and slow moving items, the aggregated dealer forecast differs on average more than a factor 2 in a given month.

– Not picking up sales on new items

– Not understanding in time what items that are not being consumed and will be returned

• Above is no news. Despite that, most OEM are managing their DC/RDC forecasts based on purely Demand from Dealer/Distributor to DC.

Even with the most simplistic methods, large savings can be harvested by incorporating this information


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DTNA RIM project - Scope

• 2013 – Large Pilot with selected dealers

• 2014/2015 – Roll out Syncron RIM to all 600 dealers in USA and Canada

• Ongoing – Syncron delivering analyst services to support the dealer community in achieving the DTNA objectives

Phase 2013 2014 2015

Pilot

All 600 dealers

Analyst services


DTNA RIM project – Effects from pilot project

• In general very positive reaction from pilot dealers

• Very good acceptance of forecast and replenishment orders from dealers

• Fill rate increased up to 30%

• Inventory reduction up to 15% - after 3 month’s use of the system

• Significantly reduced time to review the daily orders

• Redistribution very appreciated

• Many dealers have decided to let Syncron plan also non-DTNA parts

• Dealers are queuing up to join the program


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• Case study



The obvious improvments

• Better and dynamic forecasting

• Better Inventory Management including

– Support a segmented IM strategy

– Better and dynamic Inventory Parameter calculations

– Mange the local Demand and non-demand driven challenge

• Reduced administration related to Inventory Management


DTNA RIM project – Key functionalities

• Replenishment policy approval

– Review changes to parts instead of orders

• National demand affecting local stocking policy

– High national demand parts stocked sooner at dealers

• Mission critical parts

– Mission critical parts inventory management incorporated in program

• Redistribution

– Automatic redistribution of excess stock within a dealer family

• Non OEM parts

– Support for managing non DTNA parts at the convenience of the dealers

• Automatic returns of excess and obsolete stock


Key work streams in a RIM initiative

• Anchoring of concept on high Management level and in the different Regions will be success factor for global coverage

• Understand what business requirements that are vital for your business and what can be achieved by a RIM initiative

• Establish Terms and Conditions. Make sure to remove operational responsibility from the dealers/subsidaries

• Pilot

• Establish templates before starting the rollouts

• Group rollouts based on Regions and DMS/ERP systems

• Interfaces to ERP/DMS should preferably be established prior to the start

• Ensure that Rollout projects can be run in parallel.

• Selecting the right software (RIM is different)


Q & A


• Stocking policy for a default spare part

• Stocking policy for a “National demand” Spare part

Above is an example of a possible segmentation of Dealer Inventory Management strategy

National demand affecting local stocking policy


Multi Site Dealers - Redistribution/Balancing

• One redistribution order of 5 will be created, supplied from the Prio 1 warehouse.

• One redistribution order of 2 will be created, supplied from the Prio 2 warehouse.

• The pending order of 8 will remain but the OQ will be set to 0.

• Redistribution/ Inventory Balancing functionality can be run as mandatory or as recommendations. The later has been necessary for certain dealers in RIM projects from a Change Management perspective.

Redistribution region

OEM

Excess = 4

OQ = 8UOQ = 7

Excess = 5 Excess = 6

Prio 1

Prio 3

Prio 25 2

Example:


Replenishment policy approval – New module

Approve changes to the policy – Let the system order automatically

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