As part of a worldwide initiative, Bobst has reduced the price of over ten thousand spare parts and consumable items, some by as much as forty percent. The parts cover a large range of regularly used items. In the UK, a new stock management system has enabled many more critical parts to be held and dispatched directly from Bobst Group’s UK facility, saving customers valuable time.
Neil Jones, Managing Director of Bobst Group (UK & Ireland) Ltd said, “Previously we were buying perhaps ten of something from our suppliers, but now we are buying in the thousands. It means that we pay less and so we pass that saving on to our customers. We’ve also streamlined many of our internal processes, and again we can pass the benefits of that on to our customers.”
Bobst Group customers are also benefitting from a new common inventory management (CIM) system for spare parts and consumables implemented at a number of worldwide Bobst Group locations, including the Bobst Group site at Redditch.
Neil Jones said, “Based on worldwide parts usage data, CIM works out which critical parts we should keep in stock for the installed base here in the UK and Ireland. The system has been on line for about 18 months now and the upshot has been that last year we supplied 30% more parts from our Redditch stock than the year before. Being able to do this both cuts lead times for our customers and reduces their delivery costs. Many of our customers have said to us that they would like Bobst Group to be a one-stop shop for all their spare parts and consumables buying. Initiatives like the price cuts and CIM mean that we can be exactly that.”
