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Purch-lympics Entry #4 - Round #3
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S.B. Odegha
Store Superintendent, Ibadan, Nigeria
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"Last week, an Engineer brought spare parts to me in the store for sighting before using them on breakdown equipment. The reason for bringing the parts was to enable him retires the imprest. I actually sighted the parts but didn't put my signature on the invoice.
The second day, I went to the engineer and asked him why he could not involve Purchasing Unit and the Store (Supply Chain). He said he never got good service form the Supply Chain. He claimed to have got five degrees in engineering fields but the man did not mention any degree in Purchasing and Supply. I told him that involvement of Supply Chain in his materials needs would help him a lot.
This man, who wanted to test Supply Chains effectiveness, went into his archive and dug out a list of parts he felt he needed for his earth moving equipment and sent it to me for sourcing. His belief was that those parts were obsolete and will be difficult to get.
On receiving the list, I distributed it to my colleagues in Nigeria and UK. The next day, I received the quotations from three suppliers giving necessary procurement details such as price, source, logistics etc which I forwarded to the Engineer.
He responded thus:-
"We have solved the immediate problem of the D6D with the seal we purchased, therefore Items 1to 6 would not be needed urgently again. But we cannot get SAE 10W oil in the store to test the D6D. Can you please make urgent steps to purchase 7-13 for stocking for the rest of the equipment will soon need them? Regards"
Do you know that we had already received the SAE 10 W oil he was complaining about a day before he wrote his mail? Then how soon is he going to use these parts when the management has embarked on lean stock policy.
This Engineer never thought that Supply Chain can solve his materials needs but rather keep on using his time to do another man's functions to the detriment of his duties."
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