Increase Productivity and Competitiveness

Increase Productivity and Competitiveness

Contributed by: David A DeCastro (Salvador, Brazil). In traveling the world in search of excellence in MRO Materials Management (indirect materials / spare parts), I noticed two curious facts. First, even in developed countries, both the industrial companies and...
MRO Technology – 2

MRO Technology – 2

Excluding primary practices that still prevail in most industrial companies, the evolution of MRO Materials Management Technology can be summarized in three technological waves, as shown below. First Wave: Conventional Technology  There are many grave technological...
MRO Technology – 2

MRO Technology – 1

Here are a couple of curious observations: End users and providers of ERPs (enterprise management systems) are often technologically very backward in this specialty of managing MRO supplies. There are but a handful of specialists (experts) in this field who have...