The necessity of supply chain management innovation for nuclear power spare parts,
urgency and importance
Nuclear power plants have very high requirements for the stable operation and nuclear safety of nuclear power units. In the initial stage of nuclear power development in my country, nuclear power plants usually have a variety of spare parts in large quantities in order to improve the safe and stable operation of the units. After years of operation, the problems of high inventory and low inventory turnover of active nuclear power plants have become more prominent.
Generally speaking, when the construction cost is determined, operating cost control becomes an important factor in the economic indicators of nuclear power plant operation. According to industry statistics, the consumption of spare parts accounts for about one-third of the annual operating costs of nuclear power plants. Therefore, how to reduce the operating costs of nuclear power plants by optimizing spare parts and inventory management on the basis of ensuring the safety and stable operation of nuclear power plants has become a concern of nuclear power plants. topic.
Pain Points of Supply Chain Management of Nuclear Power Materials
The high amount of spare parts inventory in nuclear power plants is a common phenomenon in domestic nuclear power plants, especially in the early domestic nuclear power plants. Since there were few units of the same model in China at that time, there was a shortage of shareable spare parts. In contrast, the development of nuclear power in my country has been relatively fast in recent years, but nuclear power has relatively high professional requirements for talents, and the training period is long. There is a huge talent gap in newly built nuclear power plants, which leads to the dilution of the operation level, and the weak awareness of cost control and relative Conservative procurement strategy has caused the procurement of spare parts to be far greater than the actual usage. This is also one of the reasons for the high inventory. Although the old equipment and spare parts have been backlogged for a long time, because they belong to state-owned assets, enterprises are more cautious in judging and disposing of materials, which also results in the lack of a fast and efficient channel for the backlog of materials.
A New Perspective on the Digital Transformation of the Nuclear Power Supply Chain
We believe that nuclear power operating companies need to build a complete material supply chain management information platform. Through information means, strengthen information sharing, break down information barriers, coordinate material planning, and minimize total operating costs.
"Integrated platform" supports comprehensive budget management
Compared with other enterprises, the budget management of nuclear power enterprises during the operation period is the basic premise to meet the safe production of units. However, the traditional budget management form is biased towards the annual budget, focusing on the financial performance at the end of the year, and lacks the project management process. In the future, nuclear power enterprises should use an effective budget control platform to realize closed-loop management of budget, project approval, contract, payment, etc., avoid result-oriented budget management, strengthen budget process control, and establish project plans, Project plan, contract plan, payment plan and other planning control means, so as to realize the pre-planning of budget control.
Accurate matching of demand and supply
In the traditional procurement behavior of nuclear power enterprises, the management and control of bulk items or complete sets of equipment with the same item code but large quantities and categories are too general, making it difficult to meet the requirements for accurate matching of item supply and demand, dynamic transmission and communication. The significance of using the integrated platform to achieve accurate matching of supply and demand is that through the display of pictures of materials and technical document details, etc., it can better help users and purchasers locate the overall picture of materials, and finally realize the precise matching of demand and supply. At the same time, access to the average historical purchase price, delivery cycle, and assist planners to quickly obtain the latest and most authoritative reference information when summarizing requirements, making the budget more accurate in the declaration stage.
Flexible and rigorous warehouse operations
Due to the huge size of the nuclear power project and the high degree of redundant design, the nuclear power warehouse often has a backlog of materials, long storage time, lower storage standards, and lagging operation response. The application of the plan can reverse the mismatch between upstream and downstream progress and poor material management.
There are many types and large quantities of nuclear power items, and there are very strict requirements on the packaging method, storage method and storage level division. The traditional inventory method needs to invest a lot of manpower and tools, while transaction inventory and special inventory It often needs to run in parallel with routine maintenance, major repairs and other businesses, resulting in a long inventory cycle and verification cycle. RFID inventory is a bold and innovative attempt for nuclear power warehouses. The application feature of RFID is that it can realize non-contact, batch and fast writing of inventory data into the system, and automatically check the difference with the number of systems, thus greatly shortening the investment of human tools and the cycle of inventory data verification.
The design of complete sets of equipment is the responsibility of the manufacturer. Therefore, when purchasing and initiating a demand plan, only one set of a certain equipment should be filled in. Actually, according to the parts arrival and storage management, a set of equipment generally contains thousands of parts, and more can reach up to million parts. Generally speaking, before the equipment arrives, the manufacturer provides the delivery list, and the demand department is responsible for coding the materials, and modifying the purchase order and splitting it into the list of goods. During this process, the workload of material coding, order splitting, and amount reporting is relatively large and time-consuming, which has a great impact on on-site arrival registration, on-site construction material picking, and other businesses. business pain points.
The integrated platform supports the management of complete sets of equipment during the infrastructure construction period, and can realize business functions such as the import of goods and materials, automatic coding, corresponding conversion with purchase orders, inventory management, parts collection and delivery, and simplifies order modification, splitting, material coding, etc. Work, effectively improve business efficiency.
To sum up, in the field of nuclear power material management, the blessing of the supply chain integration platform will help to systematically improve the level of the supply chain as a whole, and establish an upstream and downstream linkage that combines demand management, budget management, and inventory management. The integrated management mode brings huge economic benefits to the enterprise on the basis of ensuring safe operation. For more exciting content, please search Inossem supply chain www.supplychainone.com/
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