In manufacturing companies, there are three departments which are directly affected by MRO-related problems: Purchasing/ Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operations & Maintenance. In an increasingly complex environment, in which the role of these departments continues to expand and evolve, the challenges they are facing, increase accordingly:
Purchasing/Procurement departments must navigate long supply chains with several points of contact, which increases the chance of things going wrong. Reducing unnecessary or accidental orders, optimizing the number of purchases, finding cheaper alternatives to expensive products, and improving efficiency are the main challenges handled daily by this department.
Furthermore, finding high-quality suppliers which fit the budget of the organization is difficult. These issues are compounded by the fact that data is not always accurate. Procurement is becoming more automated but not standardized. This means companies in the same supply chain can have a very different vision on how data should be handled.
What are the benefits of the Anchormen MRO Optimization solution:
Ineffective supply chain management can lead to high costs, excess inventory or machine downtime. That’s why the main challenges of Supply Chain departments are to optimize spare-part stock levels, standardization of parts, and dealing with the overwhelming amounts of data coming from stakeholders. In today’s constantly changing environment, organizations that are best able to control and track their inventories will have an enormous advantage over their competitors.
What are the benefits of the Anchormen MRO Optimization solution:
Operations & Maintenance departments have the stressful task of making sure everything works properly. Their biggest challenge is risk management. Pinpointing areas of high risk, such as machine or system failure that can cause downtime or outage of production, is their most vital job. Their work obviously overlaps with the Supply Chain department when having to decide on which supplier they should depend on for emergencies and locating risky areas where there aren’t many supplies that can be contacted in case of emergency. Another issue they must handle is deciding when a machine has depreciated enough to be replaced. What is the best moment for a switch and how much will it cost? Increasing sophistication and complexity of machines as well as finding qualified people that can operate them is another very energy-consuming challenge for Operations.
What are the benefits of MRO Optimization:
The departments that are facing MRO challenges, often aren't even aware they are experiencing different sides of the same underlying problem, and the cycle of bad product data persists:
The Anchormen MRO optimization solution addresses the all needs and gives back control to every department involved with Maintenance Repair and Operations, delivers significant cost savings and optimizes the full supply chain cycle. It gives global insight and local autonomy across departments.