Technique Improvement of the Automobile Parts Demand Management at Service Centers
An automobile is not a luxury anymore and it is a means of essential needs satisfaction to survive in fast changing market conditions. Customers do not want to repair their automotive engineering while domestic suppliers cannot repair it because they do not have service centers. Automotive engineering distribution not provided by the service is problematic. Domestic automobile plants do not have warehouse system with the centralized inventory control and shipment of any parts and there is no still urgent need in the implementation of modern system techniques of service centers provision with automobile parts. The important condition of the qualitative service existence is an effective organization of its material logistics. Unsatisfactory operation of material logistics subsystems of service centers leads to automobile downtime and consequently to the competitiveness reduction of the enterprise at the market. To solve the problems of the enterprise provision by automobile parts it is necessary to develop an effective prediction technique of parts consumption by service centers. Keywords: material logistcs, service center, dealer network, regression equation, regional warehouse, automobile operation seasonality, modelling of parts consumption, automobile sales level.