FleetCycle® Material Manager (FCMM) enables maintenance providers to easily implement supply chain controls into their production operations, maximising production and improving efficiency throughout the supply chain. A leading edge supply chain and vendor management solution, FCMM captures all relevant data used in any phase of the maintenance, repair and overhaul of aircraft or aircraft components and allows users to greatly improve both parts and supplier management.
Managed Asset Life Cycle
FCMM improves the procurement process by managing all supplier related data. FCMM can also interface with existing legacy systems for parts management, such as SAP, Oracle, etc. FCMM automates the essential asset controls needed to maximize production efficiencies.
Inventory management is vital for operational efficiency and with FCMM software solution pre-set stock quantities can be accurately monitored and adjusted according to forecasts of current and future expected work. FCMM also generates orders automatically if pre-set levels are breached. FCMM also provides full traceability of all stock that requires this level of detail, ensuring that any necessary documentation is received from the supplier or when fitted or removed from an aircraft.
Procurement
- Accurate tracking of approved or restricted vendors
- Purchase effectiveness, authorization and capture and display of all material purchasing information
- Clear, real-time status visibility of procurement transactions
Stock Movement and Traceability
- Ensures proper inventory levels are being maintained to avoid task-wait times
- Materials tracked to the task card level
- Tracks materials from inception to installation and provides a lifetime history of any part.
- Automatic inception to install tracking of purchase order, capture of vendor supplied information, identification of ordered part
- Robust receiving process features display parts availability via status flags, matches materials to the correct documentation and ensures materials have not been made unserviceable during storage or transport
- Document storage system provides instant access to parts certification documents
- Inventory planning mechanisms allow user to set and maintain base inventory levels and automatically notify purchasing for re-orders
Inventory Management
FCMM provides controls to keep inventory levels at preset quantities, automates the ordering and restocking processes and helps manage the key variables introduced by the needs of the aircraft operator or consignment materials.
- Inventory planning mechanisms allow provider to set or maintain base inventory levels and automatically notify purchasing for reorder
- Mechanisms for handling multiple inventory locations within multi-facility operation or single facility operations
- Expiration controls for materials with expiration dates (eg. sealants and chemicals) with reports, notifications and alerts
- Configurable tools allow visibility to different pricing opportunities enabling parts issued based on highest cost, longest shelf life, OEM price or other customer set parameters
FCMM benefits include:
- Improved efficiency of the asset movement life cycle
- Enhances customer insight and process interaction
- Increases asset movement process visibility for all users
- Provides the capacity for conducting historical analysis
- Financial mechanisms immediately tie the cost associated with the part (eg. freight charges, special handling fees, etc.) to an aircraft, bill of work and task card, when that part is installed on the aircraft, for invoicing and charge formulations at the accounts payable level
- Parts “issued” to task cards automatically adjust inventory levels
