Routine maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) of aircraft includes mostly standard work, but often there are "Over and Above" work requests for unanticipated repairs
• These requests require a certain level of on-hand inventory in order to continue working on aircraft and minimize delays
• Each piece of inventory requires an inventory cost investment
Project objectives are to improve processes managing materials by
• Reducing total inventory investment without increasing stockout risk
• Increasing the visibility of supplier-related data (e.g. lead time) to reduce the need for additional buffer inventory
• Reclassifying work requests to encourage holding predictable inventory requirements