Marine spare-parts supply for Norway
LIFA coordinated marine-parts sourcing and documentation for a Norwegian fleet, cutting spares lead time from ten weeks to four.
- The buyer
- A Bergen, Norway shipping company operating a fleet of 12 vessels.
- The product scope
- Marine equipment and spares; 1,100 SKUs for fleet maintenance. Program value $3.7M.
What needed to change?
Vessel surveyors rejected prior documentation; spares lead times of 10 weeks grounded two vessels, costing $22,000/day each.
How LIFA managed the work
We qualified 3 manufacturers with DNV-accepted documentation.
We built the fleet spares catalog with vessel-level mapping.
We negotiated a 4-week spares lead time with buffer stock.
We managed class-society documentation per delivery.
Spares lead time cut to 4 weeks; availability 96%; zero surveyor rejections; vessel downtime for spares fell 75%.
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What this project shows
Map parts to the vessel and maintain the accompanying documentation. Buffer stock helped address downtime while preserving the surveyor's evidence requirements.
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