Spare parts stock management: Classification and policy assignment
Catarina Teixeira,
Isabel Lopes,
Manuel Figueiredo
Abstract:Spare parts management is a maintenance management function that aims to support maintenance activities. It intends to provide real-time information about the available quantities for each spare part and to adopt stock management policies that assure its availability at the lowest possible cost. This paper proposes a methodology for the stock management of spare parts that aims to assign stock management policies to each spare part in an industrial plant. Five groups and five associated stock management polici… Show more
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