Methods, systems, and computer integrated program products for supply chain management

A computer program product for managing a supply chain process to maintain equipment, said computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied in said medium, the computer-readable program code comprising:

• a first executable portion for identifying and capturing data relevant to one or more sets of equipment maintenance requirements for a customer;
• a second executable portion for providing access to the capabilities of a plurality of inventory management, supply chain management, and equipment maintenance applications for preprocessing of the identified and captured data;
• a third executable portion for receiving the preprocessed data from the plurality of applications;
• a fourth executable portion for integrating the preprocessed data into a solution to the one or more sets of equipment maintenance requirements by:
• grouping a plurality of service parts by functionality to create a plurality of functional groupings of service parts,
• determining an appropriate distribution for statistical demand forecasting of a functional grouping,
• using the same distribution to generate the statistical demand forecast for service parts of the same functional grouping, and
• using a library to cross-reference which distribution applies to which functional grouping;
• and
• a fifth executable portion operable to:
• determine a ratio of service part failure rates based upon a percentage of time in which a service part of the plurality of service parts operates in specific operating modes associated with the service part;
• and
• calculate a supply availability of at least a portion of the plurality of service parts based on the determined ratios of service part failure rates corresponding to the portion of the service parts.