Improvement Put Away Process with Class-Based and Dedicated-Based Storage in Spare Part Warehouse PT. Tire Indonesia

Abstract

The routine spare parts with vital criticality had 4899 items stock in the spare parts warehouse, consisting of 3778 items on the 1st floor, 1060 items on the 2nd floor, and 61 items non-location. Non-location and un-located spare parts into the rack caused by the poor put away process. It impacted on additional time of pick-up order process to search and pick-up the spare part, and possibly missing spare parts, and also it already became finding by the internal audit of PT. Tire Indonesia. This research was to identify and analyze the poor put away process then improves with class-based and dedicated-based storage. Adopting the haphazard storage in the put away process to allocate the item by considering the empty rack, might cause the poor put away process. The poor put away process impact to pick-up order process that takes time to search and non-location spare part occurred. Change the method to Class-based and dedicated-based storage provides information to allocate the spare part and create the alternative layout. The result is total throughput of the pick-up order process on the alternative layout was increased by 25 % on the 1st floor and by 56 % on the 2nd floor spare part warehouse.