An automotive manufacturer that produces, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts with 28 assembly plants across North America, required the support of RGIS.
REQUIREMENT
The automotive manufacturer's issues that required resolving were:
- The inventory of more than
6.5 million parts had an
unacceptable accuracy rate
- All parts were located in automotive manufacturing plants spanning North America
- In-house employees could not be pulled away from other tasks to fix accuracy issues
- Due to union regulations, the cost could not exceed current, in-house inventory costs
SOLUTION
RGIS worked with the automotive manufacturer to complete the following:
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Experienced RGIS teams completed two
proof-of-concept inventories, to meet union regulations
- The inventories
resulted in lower costs and
more efficient service
- Once the bid had been accepted, RGIS teams got straight to work
correcting accuracy issues in the MRO inventory
- Inventories were completed at the auto manufacturing plants over the weekends to avoid disrupting regular operations
RESULTS
By outsourcing the full MRO inventories to RGIS, the automotive manufacturer had:
- Completed full MRO inventories at
28 plants across the continent, at a
lower cost than the in-house alternative
- RGIS auditors scanned 6.5 million pieces using pre-programmed handheld devices
- MRO inventory
accuracy increased from a rate of 80% to a rate of 93%
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