Research Of Aircraft Spare Part Inventory Control In HN Airlines

The aircraft spare part is one of the greatest fund consumption and property type to the airlines. With the civil aviation industry's rapid development, the competition of the aviation market is becoming fiercer day by day. One of the important content in the aircraft spare part management -spare part inventory control becomes very important to reduce the operation cost and improve the competitiveness of the airlines.According to Aviation & Space Technology, the present world civil aviation industry has a $50 billion-worth reserve of spare parts, in which $23 billion-worth spare parts are for circulation and $27 billion for consumption. The reserve increased by 7%~10% annually from 1996 to 2000. The profession survey indicates that the airlines need spend extra 35 cent as inventory and stock expense for 1 dollar spare part. Only to Boeing series airplanes, the aviation industry all over the world expends about $7 billion for spare part maintance. In order to increase economic efficiency of aircraft spare part management and to control aircraft spare part cost, the key is national control of the inventory, and more economic expenses of purchase, maintenance and repair, and so on, under the premise of meeting the requirement of airplane maintenance.Since 80s of 20 century, many American and European airlines have deeply understood the important effects of the control level of aircraft spare part inventory on companies' economic efficiency and taken various measures to control national inventory in succesion. For example, United Airlines(UA) adopted perfect inventory management of the aircraft spare part and produced notable effect. Its aim of aircraft spare part management is...