SCM pain:
- Growing MRO stocks and working capital use (more spend and need more storage space)
- Constant and excessive expediting requirements
- Excess warehouse time handling returns of wrong MRO items
- Purchase of materials not trackable in MRO inventory from maintenance free text requisitions (in response to poor SCM customer service)
- Slower, more labour-intensive procurement process due to off contract pricing with free text orders
- Inability to investigate inter plant stocking strategies due independently catalogued and not-comparable items
Maintenance & Reliability pain:
- Frequent maintenance job delays waiting on parts
- Stock outs (no available stock) still a problem in spite of SCM attention
- Too many wrong parts issued to jobs causing work delay
- Production loss from late maintenance job completion caused wrong material issues
- Excess job material costs from ordering free text parts often with untrack able “just in case quantities that never get used
- Excess work order planning time due to materials search and validation
- Excess risk of production upset or disaster from installation of unsuitable or mis-identified materials
- Poor performance of Maintenance BoM creation projects (or cancelation) caused by uncertainty of material ids