Efficiency boost for stores

Looking at data for thousands of stock items, Brammer found that the stores operation was not fully optimised which led to Allied Bakeries commissioning a full inventory profile project using Brammer’s Momas stock profiling system.

Andy Hickin, continuous improvement manager at Brammer, explains: “We identified an opportunity to optimise the facility to the usage requirements of the business and the product availability of the supplier roster. Using our Momas system, we were able to categorise the inventory in terms of movement and usage frequency and create a new stock profile for fast-moving items. This led to the creation of a stock availability and demand pattern model which was rolled out to Allied Bakeries sites nationwide.”

Tom Goodwin, sourcing manager for Allied Bakeries, adds: “Our project with Brammer is set to reduce the working capital of our engineering inventory. The creation of a stock profiling model through Brammer’s Momas system has also removed the requirement for time consuming data entry at a local level, and efficiency improvements have been made as we are never without vital components enabling increased uptime.”