{"id":244086,"date":"2025-10-21T10:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decolletage-massard.com\/inventory-management-and-logistics-at-decolletage-massard-ensuring-availability-and-responsiveness\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:41:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:41:51","slug":"inventory-management-and-logistics-at-decolletage-massard-ensuring-availability-and-responsiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decolletage-massard.com\/en\/inventory-management-and-logistics-at-decolletage-massard-ensuring-availability-and-responsiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventory Management and Logistics at D\u00e9colletage Massard: Ensuring Availability and Responsiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the screw machining industry, continuous part availability is just as important as manufacturing precision.
To meet the needs of its industrial customers, Massard & Cie has implemented a rigorously structured inventory management and integrated logistics system, ensuring just-in-time delivery while controlling supply costs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Buffer Stock: Securing Production<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Massard offers dedicated buffer stocks for recurring parts and annual production runs.
These stocks are sized based on consumption history or validated customer forecasts.
Buffer stock makes it possible to absorb consumption variations without production restart delays, reduce delivery times, and ensure continuity of supply even during demand peaks.
Stocks are set up under a customer contract based on their annual or biannual needs, with a production replenishment procedure triggered at a jointly defined low-stock threshold.
This stock replenishment is triggered by our production planning in order to restore stock levels, and is of course validated by a new customer contract.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Management Supported by In-House CAM\/Quality Systems<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>

Inventory management at Massard is supported by an in-house developed CAM and quality management tool built on an SQL database<\/strong>.
Each production batch is individually tracked, monitored in terms of available stock \/ reserved stock, and linked to quality control and material traceability data.<\/p>\n

The SQL architecture enables:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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secure centralization of industrial data<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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real-time tracking of stock and production movements,<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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high reliability in managing critical flows.<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>

In addition, a statistical process control software (QUASAR)<\/strong> is used to monitor quality during production, directly linked to readings from the optical measuring bench<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Statistical Process Control and Connected Metrology<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>

Thanks to the QUASAR system combined with the optical bench, Massard is able to:<\/p>\n