Dockomo Heavy Machinery Equipment Ltd.: Spare Parts Supply Chain Management
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Cases
ISSN: 2631-598X
Publication date: 1 November 2018
Abstract
This case study is designed to explore the challenges of forecasting and inventory management in spare parts industry. Most items in this industry have lumpy, intermittent, erratic and slow demand patterns. Traditional forecasting techniques cannot be applied to this group. Also most textbook methods on inventory planning, assumes the demand is normally distributed – which is also not the case in spare parts industry. Strategies can be tested for the demand data provide for about 40 items
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Acknowledgements
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Citation
Narayanan, A. and Seshadri, S. (2018), "Dockomo Heavy Machinery Equipment Ltd.:
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