International Journal of Supply Chain Management
Vol 5, No 3 (2016): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)

Decision Making of Spare Parts Inventory Based on Risk Quantification

Kamal Imran Sharif (Unknown)
Jafni Azhan Ibrahim (Unknown)
Zulkifli Mohamed Udin (Unknown)
Abdul Aziz Othman (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Sep 2016

Abstract

Financial losses due to spare part breakdown in plant operation have created an upsetting situation among stakeholders. The failure increase the cost of repair and production downtime. . Obviously, maintenance planner tends to increase the spare part inventory level in order to meet the operational requirement and this in return has increased the inventory cost. The maintenance and inventory function is important in order to ensure the plant operate accordingly. Moreover, it is necessary for the plant maintenance to balance the issue of shortage and excess of inventory in plant maintenance. In view of this situation, the spare parts become a critical matters and it is good starting point to tackle the issues from looking at the perspective of spare parts inventory risk. This paper explain about the development of risk based technique using the shortage and excess situation of spare parts inventory by using the Breakdown Probability Table to quantify the risk for decision making purpose.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJSCM

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Engineering Environmental Science Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Transportation

Description

International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM) is a peer-reviewed indexed journal, ISSN: 2050-7399 (Online), 2051-3771 (Print), that publishes original, high quality, supply chain management empirical research that will have a significant impact on SCM theory and practice. Manuscripts ...