MRO Spares White Papers
These MRO Spares White Papers describe the complexity involved in solving MRO Spares problems. It’s far too complex for warehouse and planning personnel alone.
MRO Spares – Maintainers #1 Complaint
In most of our client work with maintainers we hear about problems they have getting the spares they need to do their job.
Maintainers tell us:
- the parts they need are not in stores,
- the parts they get are not the parts they request
- the quality of parts acquired by purchasing is often sub-standard
- waiting for stores and purchasing is causing excessive plant and equipment downtime
Stores personnel tell us
- maintainers haven’t requested parts with enough lead time
- they only handle whatever purchasing buys
- maintainers are taking matters into their own hands
Purchasing tells us
- spares and materials are rarely specified accurately
- maintenance generates too many rush orders
- it’s their job to find suppliers, not maintenance to dictate who those suppliers should be
- purchasing policies demand multiple quotes and best pricing
They are all right!
And at the same all those add up to a big mess resulting in excessive downtime, higher costs of maintenance and lower plant productivity.
There’s more to this than meets the eye. The papers below explain some of this. We can help with:
- broken processes
- identifying excessive inventory that simply isn’t needed
- identifying what should be in stores
- identifying that “hidden” inventory that maintainers have stashed around their shops and operational areas
Let’s talk – this is a big problem and it requires solutions that no one of your managers will be able to deliver on their own. Contact us today.
We partner with the best there is to help us with MRO spares problems. In addition to consulting, they have written papers and developed online analytic tools.
We include detailed MRO analytics in our Uptime Rapid Value Assessment work.
