Number two is over, run and take from the neighbor!
Could the stress level of the facility manager be related to the amount of material? Do you have the fear of running out of materials, how can you overcome it? What effect can overstocking of materials have on the profitability of a ready mixed concrete company?
How keeping excess stock on hand affect the cost per m3?
How much stock can be considered as a guaranty or make the facility manager feels good. Material for a few days, for a few weeks or for a few months. How do these stocks affect the efficiency of the concrete plant?
How long can we keep the cement in stock? Can the customer request fresh cement for fresh concrete. Whether this have any implications on quality? Is it true that the cement waited for a month loses its properties by 10%? Does the stock aggregate deteriorate? What is the normal waiting time of aggregate on stock, what happens if it waits much more?
How reliable is the recycled material? Whether the additional personnel is needed to operate the recycling facility? How do the mixer drivers and pump operators use the recycle plant?
How can we measure the stock situation to work without stress? With the cameras placed on the wheel loader and the poles in the field
or using drones for large facilities?
Should we visit from time to time the quarries where we get the aggregates? Can this be done both as a regular customer visit and to see the current situation? Because the quarry, which we are very satisfied with, may have reached a bad vein and the quality of the material may have decreased. Should the quarry responsibles tell us this?
The 5% deviation in the inventory in some industries is considered as a magic number. What does this mean for the ready mixed concrete industry, is it a big problem? On the other hand, is it possible to work lean in ready-mixed concrete? How can the loss of production and sales be insured due to lack of material?
Facility managers have had a difficult job in the past, but it seems that it will not be easy also in the future. The only difference here is in the manager profile and now the era of dinosaur managers is coming to end and the transformation has already begun in order to move to a modern and digital era that works on big data and understands the technologies…
This nine-chapter e-book covers following subjects; readymix concrete, raw materials, inventory management, cement supply, water management, recycled materials, optimization, lean management and sustainability.
Timuçin Özsöylev
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