Digital enablement with suppliers; Bosch

Abstract

The cost of tooling joined with rejecting damaged parts makes expanding apparatus life a significant goal for organizations. Customary machining depended on settings decided tentatively to decide the existence of a machine device. Administrators could log part counts until an instrument fizzled or started creating out of spec parts. The normal of these part counts couldbe utilized to layout an edge for the existence of the instrument. On the other hand, they could utilize the machine instrument OEM's given part build up to lay out the rhythm of hardware changeover. Bosch can ask its supplier to manually record the number of parts it is producing which includes the fresh parts and the defective ones and record it in the vendor management system which would then be used to fetch and record the data in TLM (Tool Life Management) tool and SAP (Enterprise Resource Planning) tool. Bosch can make use of loT and supply the tools to the supplier after fitting a digital counter on it which will count how many products are being produced using the tool and will make use of Internet of Things to update the count on the cloud which could be later synced with SAP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and the TLM (Tool Life Management) tool. Bosch can connect the TLM tool (Tool Life Management) to their SAP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software and this will help them fetch the purchase order of each part from SAP and record it in the TLM tool which would keep cumulating. In this way Bosch can get the total number of parts that was ordered by the Bosch. Along with this Bosch can find out the defect rate and use the factor to countin for the defective parts that might have been produced while fulfilling the purchase order by the supplier. We recommend Bosch to go with Alternate 3 which presents a great balance between cost and extra manual work hours that will have to be put in. Although there is a trade-off of work hours and costs with the accuracy of the forecast but keeping in mind the volume that Bosch generates, the forecast will be fairly accurate in this method.