Improvement material inventory tracking for maintenance and project through lean sigma methodology

• Main Author: Manurung, Sotarduga
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: TS Manufactures
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/15993/1/P48.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/15993/; http://stmlportal.net/ictom04/TOC.html

A material management is one of the key issues in ensuring that a project can be completed timely and safely.Well Development project is one of the CVX main projects that were performed to maintain oil production in order to support National income of Government of Indonesia.As one of the project resources, material inventory is a point that needs to be managed very well.The purpose of this paper is to present a Lean Sigma case study for reducing surplus materials.Due to lack of monitoring and poor material management system, project team facing that surplus material reaches $3.2 MM.Lean sigma became a very popular as it provides the organization the desired speed with quality.An initiative was done to improve project team performance. An application of Lean Sigma methodology is applied on to reduce surplus materials of project and maintenance.By having this Lean Sigma project, the surplus material can be reduced to $ 2.29 MM.