Improving MRO Material Identities Makes All MRO Business Processes Run Better, Faster, and Improves Asset Reliability
BoK Content Type:
Presentation Slides
Webcast
Presentation Paper
BoK Content Source:
MainTrain 2021
Original date:
Sunday, April 11, 2021
In a long career implementing and improving SAP SCM business processes in Oil & Gas, Pipelines, Utilities and Transportation companies, the number one consistently observed problem is poorly identified MRO material masters. Material master identity consists of the item descriptions, the manufacturer and manufacturer part number fields and classification data that support material identification. This presentation is meant to raise the profile of the topic and the value lost by not addressing the problem without going into detailed solutions. It is aimed at a general level to all practitioners that make use of maintenance or SCM business processes that use materials.The presentation is software agnostic. These challenges are found in shops running SAP, Oracle, JDE, Maximo or any other business software. It is of value to all businesses that have MRO business processes in their value chain. The concepts presented are original thinking of the presenter and address a business problem that software vendors and business consultancies have given marginal attention to date. Hence, the MaintTrain audience will be introduced to value saving concepts. Topics: • Introduction (discussion applies to asset intensive industry and the MRO materials records used in their supporting business processes) 3 min • Generalized view of the current state and how we arrived here. 7 min • Structured identification taxonomy – standards and why coherence in the structure is important. 10 min • Material master lifecycles are often not considered- beginning, middle, end. 8 min • Conclusions: This is not an insolvable problem or one that necessarily demands another $$$ system implementation. It exists only because it has been invisible. 3 min • Questions? 14 min Originally presented at MainTrian 2021