Paper Info
Title
Multi-echelon, multi-indenture spare parts inventory control subject to system availability and budget constraints.
Abstract
Inventory management of spare parts is one of the most critical issues in the aeronautical industry, given the required level of system availability related to the strategic importance and high stocking costs of the components. Even if a large number of spare parts increases warehousing costs, every single shortage have a greater impact: the adoption of best-in-class inventory management techniques becomes crucial. On these considerations, the paper presents an innovative model of spare parts allocation for the Italian Air Force with the aim of minimizing backorders and, at the same time, ensuring an availability of 99% depending on the actual flight plan. The model, solved by a marginal analysis, considers an original configuration of features combining different skills of maintenance centers in a hierarchical multi-echelon, multi-item, multi-indenture structure. A real case is provided in order to analyze the solving method and the results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.ress.2013.05.006
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Spare parts allocation,Multi-echelon,Multi-indenture,Aircraft maintenance,VARI-METRIC,Marginal analysis method
Journal
119
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0951-8320
11
0.77
References 
Authors
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesco Costantino16710.31
Giulio Di Gravio2719.44
Massimo Tronci3565.01