Most manufacturers carrying $50M in spare-parts inventory are overstocked on parts that rarely fail and understocked on the ones that stop production lines — and standard safety-stock formulas can’t fix it because they require demand history that doesn’t exist. Short…
Most plants carrying $50M in MRO inventory have the same problem: the wrong $50M — well-stocked on parts that rarely fail, understocked on the ones that stop production lines — and standard supply chain tools can’t fix it because they…
A Fortune 500 industrial manufacturer discovered $20.9M in duplicate MRO materials across 29 sites—most hidden inside their own ERP master data, invisible to standard audits. Short answer: Duplicate spare parts—identical components stored under different part numbers, descriptions, or across multiple…
Most manufacturers carry 20–30% excess MRO inventory while simultaneously facing stockouts on critical parts — and the culprit is tail spend buried across fragmented ERPs with no visibility. Short answer: Tail spend is the 80% of supplier activity that generates…
A Fortune 500 CPG manufacturer cut material review time from 20+ minutes to 4 minutes without cleansing a single record—by optimizing inventory data as-is across 41 sites. Short answer: MRO data cleansing delays ROI by 6–12 months and costs $50,000–$500,000+…
