Analys av faktorer som påverkar interna leveransledtider : Dimensionering av lager

It is becoming increasingly important for companies to meet customer demands due to intense competition in today's global market, that forcing companies to improve their offerings and become better at managing their supply chain (Shen et al., 2006). Long lead times can be reduced by using different methods and strategies shows various researches. Lead times occur in the planning, production, inventories and handling of products (Treville et al., 2003). The aim of the study is to develop a method to analyze the factors that affect the length of internal delivery lead time in manufacturing companies. The method also included suggestions for reducing delivery lead-time to internal customers. The main factors that influenced the length of the on delivery lead times has summarized to make a selection among the factors that can have the most significant impact. The selected elements will be used as a method to analyze how these areas affect a company’s length on internal delivery lead times. The study shows that the causes of the long delivery lead times was the location of the customer order point, uncertain forecasts, long material and production planning time, and long waits in the production and storage. The delivery lead time, according to this report’s suggested improvements reduced by centralizing CODP and makes more reliable forecasts. This would lead to improved planning capabilities. Although, to create regulation between companies and their internal customers may lead to reduce delivery lead time