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QRP-23-6 Inventory Forecasting Optimisation – EOI Tender Overview

Queensland Rail (QR) is seeking an inventory Material Requirement Planning (MRP) analytical solution to assist Material Planners in making more informed and efficient replenishment decisions. This will lead to better optimised inventory levels across QR. QR currently maintains approximately 15,000 inventory items in SAP across thirty-seven plants. Recent global events and changing economies are creating uncertainty and volatility in many supply chains.

The business problem to be addressed is the suboptimal user functionality of SAP MRP, which requires users to run multiple transactions to assess stock situations for each QR plant, then run additional transactions to review historical usage, open demand, material values, historical lead times and other inputs required to make inventory replenishment decisions. Excel is currently used to analyse historical usage, determine safety stock levels and economic orders quantities. The current process requires users to export data from SAP Material Document List and use pivot tables to display usage by month format. Currently, individual perception and decision making is utilised to enhance the MRP process, leading to potential sub-optimal results with regards to inventory levels and ordering. This process is highly inefficient, prone to data handling errors, relies on subjective decisions by numerous staff and duplicates effort. A system is required to automate this process were possible and provide a consistent and scalable method of analysing inventory replenishment set-points and updating SAP for the revised set-point values.

Respondents who would like to download all documents and are interested in submitting a response, please follow the below instructions:

Tenderers are to email the nominated Contact Officer ( Amanda.reid@qr.com.au ) to register interest and to gain access the documents and online response form in the SAP Ariba Sourcing system with the following information:

1. Name of Tendering Organisation
2. Name of Tenderer Representative
3. Email Address
4. Phone Number

1. Ariba Sourcing, Queensland Rail’s tendering system, is the only tool that will be used for the receipt of tender submissions. Queensland Rail will not accept any hardcopy responses or responses via the Queensland Government QTenders website.
2. Refer to the attached document “Ariba Guide for Suppliers (v1,1)” for instructions on how to navigate the Ariba Sourcing System (once you have registered your interest with the Contact Officer).

1. The  tender package includes:
   1. Invitation and Condition of Tendering
   2. Preamble
   3. Scope of Works:

Tender Response Questions in SAP Ariba Sourcing

Queensland Rail will only accept responses submitted via the SAP Ariba Sourcing System.

Please do not leave tender responses until the closing date and time, allow adequate timing to have tender responses uploaded into the system.

Indicative timetable for the tender outlined below:

Queensland Rail reserves the right to alter the above dates throughout the Tender Process should the need arise.

Contact Officers

1. Amanda Reid

Senior Sourcing Specialist, ICT Procurement and Contracts

(07) 3072 1634

Amanda.reid@qr.com.au

If there are no documents listed in this section, please refer to Section 1 Tender Overview.

Documents can not be downloaded once Tender has closed.

Specification Documents

Published 19 Jan, 2023
	03 QRP-23-6a Inventory Forecasting EOI Preamble v1.0 (Ver 1 - 19 Jan, 2023) Available by Download
	04 QPR-23-6a Inventory Forecasting EOI Scope of Work SOW V1.0 (Ver 1 - 19 Jan, 2023) Available by Download
	Ariba Guide for Suppliers v1.1 (Ver 1 - 19 Jan, 2023) Available by Download
	05 QRP-23-6a Inventory Forecasting EOI Conditions of Tender v0.1 (Ver 1 - 19 Jan, 2023) Available by Download

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