A Bill of Materials (BOM), traditionally a blueprint for manufacturing, plays a surprisingly vital, though often overlooked, role in optimising MRO processes.

Managing Criticality and Lead Times in MRO - Key strategies for effective Maintenance, Repair, and Operations...

Let me convince you to switch from a MIN/MAX to an ROP/ROQ approach...

Automating your transactional purchasing processes can provide a significant return on the investment once you have calculated the cost of manual POs...

This blog is all about Stock Accuracy - one of those critical magical ingredients that will make or break all other associated processes.

MRO materials management is the 'too-hard basket' that very few people pay much attention to it. I'm going to write about a few of the struggles and learnings that I've had on my journey. My focus will be to help you measure, understand, and improve your MRO materials management position.

Before you race off and start changing and 'fixing' your data and processes, I would suggest you pause and first identify how your business is currently performing regarding your MRO Supply Chain. It is important to baseline your current and past performance before setting targets that you want to reach in the future.

Do you ever get thoughts or ideas stuck in your head that you can’t seem to shake? Well, this happens to me all the time and is part of the reason that I started this Newsletter. I seem to always have concepts or issues constantly rumbling around in my noggin. The KPIs listed in my last newsletter (and shown below) are an example of one of these gremlins in my head.