A Study on Spare Parts Management Influencing Factors

Modern companies rely heavily on industrial equipment, ensuring by this way their operation under optimal conditions is paramount. Industrial maintenance significantly contributes when management adopts an aiming loss reduction philosophy. Maintenance’s primary purpose is the organisation of the information to implement in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and analyse storage costs of spare parts, aiming to lower the number and cost of spare parts in the warehouse. Moreover, it improves effectiveness and efficiency without losing the quality of the service. The developed work focused on creating a framework to analyse and implement internal procedures, storage, and technical support for a warehouse management model of spare parts. The main objective was to analyse existing material through screening, identification, study and removal of obsolete spare parts, promoting the reduction of losses and continuous improvement. To validate the model, 27 pieces of equipment out of 191 were analysed and, 200 spare parts references from the maintenance warehouse were associated with the respective equipment.