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Lynair Case Study

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Inventory Management Recommendations
Although Lynair’s current inventory management practices prove functionality over the last 20 years, there are five feasible options that will drastically improve parts accountability, and the amount of time spent on producing requisitions and purchase orders. The findings revealed a significant amount of time spent locating parts, and creating a requisition request for parts needed to complete an order even though there are many viable ways to improve operations. The five recommendations include; utilizing current software capabilities that are currently not being used; having noteworthy vendors implement their designed reordering systems; further review outside software systems to support inventory …show more content…

Once a parts order is received the stock room specialist will receive the parts list, pull the parts and scan the amount of parts he is pulling from each bin. If the line number falls under the minimum requirement, then an automatic purchase order for the providing vendor will be produced for reorder to the maximum number set. The purchase order can be reviewed, and ordered as necessary. Creating a barcode for 3,100 items will take significant time; however, after all barcodes are established, there will be accountability of all parts in the stock room, and purchase orders can be made automatically. This then results in a faster order fill rates due to having sufficient inventory to complete orders; opposed to the image above, where there are at least four orders awaiting parts due to lacking inventory. Also, the current software provides the IT specialist the freedom to create any type of report that the Vice President of Purchasing would want for inventory management. This recommendation provides multiple improvements; gains accountability of all inventory, allows for purchase orders to be automatically created once the minimum threshold is met, any type of report can be created and tracked, and there are minimum costs associated with this option due to the existing software. Things to consider for this recommendation; a significant amount of time will be needed to

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