Developing Spare Parts Proactive Procurement for Agile Supply Chain
Kallio, Erno (2024)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024091825313
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024091825313
Tiivistelmä
A case company research work was conducted for the purpose of exploring and defining possibilities to transform specific service business unit’s procurement function from reactive to proactive by utilizing advanced planning methods & improved process. The environment was related to supply chain management, cross-departmental planning and utilizing potential intelligent systems and data. Specific topics of large global corporation environment were included in the research and utilized for results proposals as company-wide and industry-agnostic applications.
Thesis was implemented by forming suitable theoretical base from applicable topics further reflected into practice, as supply chain management, sales & operations planning and supportive digital technologies. Actual research work was conducted by consultancy, observation, workshops and benchmarking similar function inside the company.
Results of the thesis research work concluded various improvement opportunities to enhance traditional procurement processes, automations and data, and collaborative planning to address future demand by utilizing sales & operations planning framework, deploy governance and control to sustainability and risk management, and lastly reflecting to investigate intelligent solutions to digitalize supply chain and procurement.
As conclusion, the results are presented in short- and long-term improvement categories with the proposal for the case company to evaluate, plan and create possible implementation roadmaps aligned with strategy and priorities.
Thesis was implemented by forming suitable theoretical base from applicable topics further reflected into practice, as supply chain management, sales & operations planning and supportive digital technologies. Actual research work was conducted by consultancy, observation, workshops and benchmarking similar function inside the company.
Results of the thesis research work concluded various improvement opportunities to enhance traditional procurement processes, automations and data, and collaborative planning to address future demand by utilizing sales & operations planning framework, deploy governance and control to sustainability and risk management, and lastly reflecting to investigate intelligent solutions to digitalize supply chain and procurement.
As conclusion, the results are presented in short- and long-term improvement categories with the proposal for the case company to evaluate, plan and create possible implementation roadmaps aligned with strategy and priorities.