Storeroom Organization: How to Maximize Space and Efficiency
Maintenance, repair, and operations stockrooms are no different than consumer product inventory systems, they should be built and managed to solve “customer” problems. Stockrooms “customers” are a company’s internal departments...
Driving Change in Last Mile Delivery for MRO Logistics
The 2019 3PL Study by Infosys, Korn Ferry, Penske, and Penn State, was released in conjunction with The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ annual conference. In addition to various...
BOM Management Best Practices for Maximum Efficiency
With supply chain managers continually scraping to make their operations more strategic and less transactional, most have by now embraced the need for comprehensive equipment bills of material (BOM). An...
8 REASONS WHY BOM MANAGEMENT IS CRITICAL TO ANY MAINTENANCE AND RELIABILITY PROGRAM
The Bill of Materials (BOM) is a comprehensive inventory of the raw materials, assemblies, subassemblies, parts and components, as well as the quantities of each, needed to manufacture a product...
The Trend is Your Friend: Reducing MRO Purchasing Costs through Demand Analysis
All MRO inventory is not created equal. Job-critical spare parts should not be treated the same as routine maintenance supplies. Cheap, bulk-order items do not deserve the same attention as...
3 Standards in Data, Controls, and Systems to Further Enable Supply Chain Integration
Manufacturers want to leverage evolving technology in the age of Industry 4.0. Companies that integrate their supply chain through digital technologies are agile and nimble. The digital supply chain allows...
Why BOM Management is so Important for Your Business
Often, when a piece of equipment breaks down because of a broken or worn out part, workers scramble to find the part number. If there’s no identifier on the part,...
MRO Master Data Management is a discipline driven by two functional areas in manufacturing – Maintenance/Operations and Procurement. Both rely on technology and domain expertise to ensure the accuracy and...
MRO Storeroom Efficiency Extends Well Beyond Proper MRO Supply Storage
Posted by Glenn Pierce on Fri, 09/28/2018 I recently came across this “oldie, but goodie” in Efficient Plant Magazine about the importance of efficiency in MRO Storerooms. The article, written...
