The information you provide to your maintenance, operations and procurement professionals determines whether they can find the spares they need, what they ultimately buy, and how long it all takes - from maintenance request to procurement to your suppliers to inventory receiving. Poor information causes unnecessary requests for new spares, delays in completing work orders, poor spend control, and bloated inventory. But properly managing MRO materials data can be a daunting challenge for asset intensive companies, which often have tens of thousands of items (or SKUs) per plant. Typical implementations of SAP Material Master for MRO do not fully sup- port company goals of user efficiency and effectiveness, inventory cost management, and increased material availability within asset intensive organizations such as Oil & Gas Production and Refining, Energy Generation, Consumer Products, and Chemical Manufacturing. Problems include: • Incomplete and inconsistent Material descriptions that limit users ability to find and compare parts • Unrecognized duplication of inventory because of poor descriptions • Inadequate tools for managing new part requests and updates • No comprehensive strategy for ongoing material data governance Centrally managed and standardized spares information can eliminate the com- mon problems of spares management by: • Increasing corporate visibility of spares • Ensuring that failed searches really do mean that you don't have the part • Streamlining new part requests MRO Data Governance for MDM Material Spares Data Management “It’s a great prize to get to, if we can define our materials in a consistent way” . . . citing “huge benefits” from IHS Intermat and SAP MDM Andy Walker, BP MDM Architect – SAP SAPPHIRE EMEA 2007
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The information you provide to your maintenance, operations and
procurement professionals determines whether they can find the
spares they need, what they ultimately buy, and how long it all
takes - from maintenance request to procurement to your suppliers
to inventory receiving. Poor information causes unnecessary
requests for new spares, delays in completing work orders,
poor spend control, and bloated inventory.
But properly managing MRO materials
data can be a daunting challenge for asset
intensive companies, which often have
tens of thousands of items (or SKUs) per
plant. Typical implementations of SAP
Material Master for MRO do not fully sup-
port company goals of user efficiency and
effectiveness, inventory cost management,
and increased material availability within
asset intensive organizations such as Oil &
Gas Production and Refining, Energy
Generation, Consumer Products, and
Chemical Manufacturing. Problems
include:
• Incomplete and inconsistent Material
descriptions that limit users ability to find
and compare parts
• Unrecognized duplication of inventory
because of poor descriptions
• Inadequate tools for managing new part
requests and updates
• No comprehensive strategy for ongoing
material data governance
Centrally managed and standardized
spares information can eliminate the com-
mon problems of spares management by:
• Increasing corporate visibility of spares
• Ensuring that failed searches really do
mean that you don't have the part
• Streamlining new part requests
MRO Data Governance for MDM
Material Spares Data Management
“It’s a great prize to get to, if we can
define our materials in a consistent
way” . . . citing “huge benefits” from
IHS Intermat and SAP MDM
Andy Walker, BP MDM Architect
– SAP SAPPHIRE EMEA 2007
The Solution - MDM Optimized for MRO
MDM Optimized for MRO is designed to assist you in
resolving issues in MRO spares management by leveraging
IHS Intermat and SITA CORP's broad range of knowledge of
the industry best practices for data and process manage-
ment. We do this through a combined System, Business
and Data Comparative Analysis - delivering a comprehensive
and actionable Report of Findings, which documents the
customers' current situation, areas for improvement and rec-
ommended “Next Steps”. We then use these findings to
cleanse and standardize customer spares data according to
the IHS's Standard Modifier Dictionary™ (SMD™) - the most
widely used taxonomy for MRO spares - and to establish a
central catalog for searching and maintaining spares data.
Once implemented, MDM Optimized for MRO provides
powerful search and retrieval capabilities, as well as data
governance over changes and requests, built on the world's
foremost data dictionary for MRO and using a platform
proven in hundreds of customer implementations.
IHS Intermat, the worldwide leader in structuring and stan-
dardizing MRO spares content and an SAP Content Partner,
has teamed with SITA CORP, an SAP Services Partner and
leader in Enterprise Data Management, to offer the premier
singular source of MRO and data management expertise.
MDM Optimized for MRO is a package of domain specific
services for cleansing. standardization, and process improve-
ment to leverage the capabilities of SAP's Master Data
Management platform to manage catalog data and
workflows in a complex landscape.
SITA CORP and IHS's delivery of MDM Optimized for MRO
embodies industry leading expertise and MRO experience
not before available in a single, cohesive solution. MDM
Optimized for MRO is designed to address all of these
issues - leaving you with cleansed data, software tools and
training customized to meet your unique business require-
ments and IT environment.
What You’ll Receive
Only IHS and SITA CORP have the proven combination
of technical content, tools, and expertise to deliver a
comprehensive solution to manage MRO spares and
optimize MRO inventory.
Why let your users base their decisions on this . . .
. . . when they could be basingtheir decisions on this . . .
Text/KeywordSearch
Multi-ItemSelect/CompareHierarchical
(SMD) Search
ParametricSearch
Attributed ItemDetail View
SolutionComponent Description Unique Benefits
IHS StandardModifier Dictionary(SMD)™
Provides the basis for cleansing and standardizing existingdata, and for establishing ongoing consistency in sparesdata, that ensures users can find the parts they need andeliminates unnecessary requests for new spares.
MRO Data Collection,Classification &Standardization
Services to collect, classify and standardize legacy material masterdata, with optional data enrichment.
Provides a basis for duplicate identification and improvedspares management.
DuplicatesIdentification
Collapse disparate and redundantsupply chains through identificationof potential duplicates from partnumber and technical characteristicmatching.
Provides a single catalog record, even if the spare exists in multiple systems or plants, improving inventory visibilityand control.
MDM Repositoryfor MRO Materials
“Out of the box” IHS repository builtaround the SMD.™
Reduces implementation time and cost by allowing everyoneto concentrate on what is unique to your company.
MDM Configurationand Implementation
Implementation of SAP MDM forMRO Spares.
Provides a parametric catalog for accurate searching, andtools, including workflow, for data governance of spares.
DescriptionGenerator
Code for generating standardizedShort and Long Descriptions.
Automatically generates consistent short description andPO text as part of the data management process.
Integration Integration with systems that consume spares data.
Ensures that other systems have clean data to supporttheir needs.
SAP Portal SAP Portal configured as a catalog,with workflow for new spares requests.
An easy to deploy, web-based catalog front-end for users thatsupports both keyword and parametric searching, as well asproviding a vehicle for initiating new material spares requests.
Analytics and performance manage-ment of MRO inventory at the item level, including automatedadjustment of order points, orderquantities, and lead times.
Identify what moves, how often and monitor lead times -and supplier performance - using the only web-based solution expressly designed for use with MRO inventories.
Adobe InteractiveForms for offlinematerial requests
Integrates SAP Adobe InteractiveForms as part of the new materialrequest workflow.
Allows users a simple interface that can be used online oroffline for initiating requests for material spares.
SMARTSearch™ Google-like catalog search UI. Provides a simpler, more-scalable user interface for thecatalog.
The Solution Package includes the following:
The preeminent MRO catalogingmethodology composed of approxi-mately 2,500 classification templates,9,000 technical attributes and 30,000values for MRO materials - certifiedcompatible with SAP MDM and usedby over 100 SAP customers worldwide.
ERP Integration OCI Integration of the Portal catalogwith ERP transactions such as WorkOrders and Requisitions.
Allows users to access the catalog from within ERP transactions, find spares, and pull them into transactions singly or in groups.
Training Training of data stewards in themanagement of the SMD™ and useof SAP MDM.
Allows your company to manage your own processes going forward.
Optional Components (not part of core Solutions Package)
BenefitsMRO material master data management and
inventory optimization must be operational
imperative for asset intensive companies, due to
the high investment in capital assets and their
supporting materials and spare parts.
Organizations which have implemented SMD
as part of their MRO spares management, and
MDM as part of the data management process,
have recognized significant savings and efficiencies.
With MDM Optimized for MRO, you'll enjoy
the benefits of a central corporate repository
of standardized MRO information, which:
• Provides a single view of spares, improving
user's ability to find parts and supporting
enterprise-wide inventory visibility and reporting
• Enables data governance through workflow
and other system controls, ensuring data
reliability and integrity with clean, consolidated
and consistent material master data across the
enterprise
• Keeps down inventory costs by eliminating
erroneous requests for new material spares
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