FEATURE SPONSOR
LIFE EXTENSION OF WINDFARMS
A ‘VISION’ FOR THE WIND INDUSTRY
Glasgow based components and consumables specialist, Renewable Parts Ltd, believe in supplying more than just parts. By providing a total supply solution, the company can help to ensure the highest levels of turbine availability at low, and in some cases, completely predictable cost.
Renewable Parts’ commitment to removing cost from the customer’s operation, has led to a number of innovative approaches that are changing the traditional relationship between customer and supplier.
INNOVATIVE NEW SERVICE
Renewable Parts is launching an innovative, new service for consumables called ‘Vision’. Delivering a customised service using only OEM approved products, ‘Vision’ promises customers a fixed priced, turnkey solution that meets all of their consumables needs.
Spanning a broad range of wind turbines, principally from the Vestas, Siemens and Nordex stables, the service enables customers operating mixed fleets, to employ a standardised, user friendly approach for all their equipment.
“It became increasingly obvious that significant management time was being diverted from running businesses and reducing cost in the areas of highest expenditure. We believe that ‘Vision’ squarely addresses this challenge, allowing our customers to operate with the confidence that all their consumable needs will be met for a fixed monthly fee, adjustable as fleet changes occur.
“One annual purchase order that allows Renewable Parts to get on with the job of delivering on-time, to cost, made natural sense. Customer feedback so far has been overwhelmingly positive and we already have, in the space of weeks, customer commitments across many different turbine types.”
The ongoing development of customer friendly service solutions, which provide outstanding value for money, is central to the company’s growth strategy. The arrival of Vision is the next step of that strategy. The culmination of a six month consultation with customers to identify supply chain improvements that will enhance their business, the new service promises to reduce costs, increase predictability and simplify the customer to supplier interface.
CONFIDENT FINANCIAL PLANNING Contracted over a minimum 12-month period, Vision enables customers to plan financially with confidence, insulating them from cost overruns, while also significantly reducing workload associated with consumables management.
RECURRING THEMES
In explaining this development, James Barry, Chief Executive of Renewable Parts sums it up well: “During our regular meetings with customers, the same recurring themes of needing greater simplicity, cost certainty and flexibility, emerged making us think there was a strong market demand for a new service offering. The generation of repeat purchase orders for hundreds of line items, often very low priced goods, really made no sense at all.
IMPROVING AVAILABILITY AND REDUCING COST
The advent of ‘Vision’ continues the theme of improving customers’ turbine availability and reducing their cost. Renewable Parts’ highly successful logistics and parts management solution, which extends more deeply into the customer’s operation, is already delivering significant operational and financial benefit.
Applied to RWE’s Little Cheyne Nordex N90 operation, this integrated solution which preceded Vision, has delivered flawless results, with zero parts related interruptions, in almost 12 months since go-live. As critically, this approach has released the customer from supply chain management, enabling them to increase focus on managing and improving their core business.
In a world with investors demanding ever higher availability at even lower costs, operators need flexible supply solutions which are more than just parts. It is clear that Renewable Parts innovative approach is paying dividends for its customers.
‘Vision’, for those businesses that need to see ahead…!
Renewable Parts Ltd
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
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