Effektivisering av materiallager : En fallstudie på PMC Cylinders materiallager

Sammanfattning: To be a highly competitive company in today's market, it is important for companies to utilize their resources as efficiently as possible. Customers have high demands on price, quality, and delivery reliability and in order to meet the customers hard and growing demands, it is important for the companies to work with continuous improvements. A process where there are great opportunities for improvements is how companies work with their material handling. This means everything from storage and transportation to administrative operations. PMC Cylinders is a company located in Vaggeryd, which produces hydraulic cylinders in various sizes. In this thesis, a case study is done on one of their material storage to investigate whether the material handling in the storage can be more streamlined. A lot of resources is also tied up in the warehouse due to low sales of certain pipes. PCM wants to utilize the warehouse more effectively and get a better fill rate of essential material. The capital that is bound in the stock must be of material that has a high picking frequency. Some of the material in the warehouse has been there for so long that they are no longer used in their product range. There will be rust on several pipes as the layer is poorly insulated and moisture easily absorbs. This can lead to deterioration of quality of the material and disposal. To tackle this problem and to get more information, an ABC-analysis is made. An ABC-analysis aimed at dividing the material into different classes was conducted to investigate which material should be prioritized in the material handling. With the help of the ABC-analysis, 3 suggestions were proposed for a new article placement that should reduce time for material handling. It was also investigated if the material in the stock is relevant for PMC Cylinders products. This resulted in another suggestion. The suggestion indicated that the company was recommended to discard the material considered to be outdated. A calculation was made of how the change could affect the storage, it showed that agent stock level will decrease by 2.1% and the stock turnover will increase by 2.03% when discarding of the outdated material is performed.