Remote Australia Roads Upgrade
Objective
Ensure graders and excavators stay active by cutting bolt‐kit lead times from eight weeks to under a month.
Approach
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Established a quarterly sea-and-rail shipping schedule with buffer stock warehoused in Perth.
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Supplied complete M24 8.8 and M30 B7 bolt-and-nut kits, each batch accompanied by certificates of origin.
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Rolled out digital inventory alerts so the customer received reorder reminders before stocks ran low.
Outcome
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Lead time shrank consistently from 8 weeks to 3 weeks.
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Fleet availability climbed 20 percent, from 75 percent up to 95 percent.
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Administrative workload dropped by 30 hours per month thanks to automated tracking and fewer emergency orders.