PURCHINEERING
How purchasing comes into play early on
Often there are different opinions in the departments about which component is the best: While the purchasing department prefers a product with a favorable price, an engineer chooses the best technical product.
In practice, an early involvement of purchasing happens way too seldom. Engineers develop a product on the basis of the required technical specifications. Afterwards a parts list is handed over to production planning. In consequence, the job of the purchasing department is only to procure the defined components at the best prices.
PURCHINEERING overcomes obstacles
PURCHINEERING is a combination of the words »purchase« and »engineering« and aims at the optimized cooperation of purchasing and engineering. Without an intensive cooperation of the purchasing and development departments, companies cannot fully realize their competitive edge.
Disadvantages due to a lack of cooperation between the purchasing & engineering departments
- Preferred parts and suppliers are not defined
- Components that could be procured externally are self-made, which is very costly (make-or-buy)
- Components and suppliers are not selected in regard to the technical and economic features
- No optimization of the process costs for C-parts, e.g. with Kanban
Success Stories
Wanzl shortens research and design times for the development of a new shopping cart by more than 2 hours with the Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions powered by CADENAS.
By means of PARTsolutions by CADENAS all parts including complex geometries are traceable across different system and locations of the MAN Truck & Bus AG
SMS group avoids duplicates and offers the best possible data quality through PARTsolutions.
High reuse of parts in the product development process based on PARTsolutions.