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KFTL DUE DILIGENCE – Kingston, Jamaica
5 Inventory:
The issues related to the inventory/ spare parts, and procurement of same, are a major cause impacting the performance of equipment and the terminal in general.
Timely availability of necessary parts and their management, is the main reason why so many key terminal equipment assets are out of service, or unable to perform at expected performance level.
Cannibalisation, is now evident in KFTL, with one Quay Crane (#K) currently being systematically stripped of spare parts in order to keep remaining cranes in operating condition.
Trent’s recommended action points for Inventory & Procurement have been captured in Section 14 below.
5.1 Large Stores
The management of the spare parts inventory, is well below acceptable standards.
Parts are stored without suitable recording of their location in the Engineering Asset Management System (EAMS), called Champs; consequently, valuable time is lost locating parts when required, or ordering parts and waiting for lengthy delivery, when the parts are already in store.
Several stores exist on site, including a number of shipping containers, in which it would be difficult to control the quality of the storage, and to account for the goods.
New parts removed from a large assembly – that were not required for a previous repair job - were witnessed as stored in a shipping container outside of main stores. These parts were not catalogued manually or in CHAMPS, so in effect are laying in the container, clearly of some value, but unseen and unknown – other than those who may know of its existence and potential future use.
Illustration shows one example of a large and new ‘blower fan’ removed from an electric motor and placed in a 40 ft. container, no part number, no cost allocated and no records.
Crane electric motors worth tens of thousands of USD, stored temporarily outside under tarpaulin.
These units had recently been removed from another store area and placed here due to the need to vacate from other stores area.
A large building, in a current poor state of repairs, houses a big percentage of the inventory. Some of the problems witnessed during Trent’s review, and that need addressing, are as follows:
a) Poor lighting throughout
b) No segregation of hazardous/flammable substances
c) Battery storage/management is poor and presents a health
and fire risk
d) Most parts poorly stored
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