What is MRO?
MRO is: Maintenance,
Repair, and Operation (MRO). Refers to the actual production process is not
directly into the production of products, only for maintenance, repair,
operation equipment, auxiliary raw materials production of accessories.
Current MRO industrial procurement problems
1, In view of
"market information asymmetry" factor, the buyer and the seller
cannot immediately get in touch with each other. Although the industrial
Internet has solved the matching problem of some buyers and sellers, the MRO
industry is still facing many difficulties in finding and matching with the
buyers and sellers in the MRO market. This depends entirely on the nature of
its customers - in a broad sense, MRO customers are the industrial customers,
from a narrow sense, MRO customers are the staffs around production line. Under
normal circumstances, MRO procurement decisions are made by the enterprise’s
manager, procured by the procurement department, and ultimately used by the
production line workers receive. During the adoption of the main steps are
divided into: enterprise procurement plan, procurement, receipt and storage,
workers receive, sort out the library information and other steps. For a large enterprise, MRO accounted for a small amount
of procurement, corporate procurement plans may not fully take into account the
importance of MRO procurement and complexity. In the lower cost requirements
and ensure quality requirements, manager tends to issue rigid targets to
procurement department. For the
procurement department, the complexity of MRO procurement and the degree of
professionalism determines the procurement takes a lot of time for parity,
transaction. For large-scale enterprises, MRO procurement can even evolve
thousands of manufacturers, a number of product categories. Then the detailed
work will inevitably lead to unnecessary costs, and make the purchase do not
match the requirements of users. If the production line workers, team leaders,
as direct users with MRO products, have some special requirements and
awareness, although they can communicate with the procurement department to
change, they need to go through the procurement department audit, then reported
to the enterprise manager, after business manager makes a plan, based on the
plan to implement inventory. After all those steps, enterprise can fulfill the
workers or team leaders’ requirements. Considering the communication costs and
wait time, to a certain extent, may slow down the production efficiency of
enterprises, and sometimes even affect the safety of production.
2, large economic downturn, the national manufacturing industry is facing excess capacity, lack of business innovation and a series of challenges!
In the global economic depression, large-scale manufacturers because of their
large volume, data management difficulties, cost accounting difficulties and
other reasons, faced with more severe problems than the small and medium
enterprises. In the global economic downturn stage, the change management is a
bitter medicine, the pain of change management is inevitable, but the change
management can be obtained in the recession phase of the industry advantage, after
a complete transformation, even in the case of the environment is still
sluggish, company will continue to develop. According to the 2008-2009 global
economic crisis analysis, the US traditional strong companies such as Ford,
Chevrolet and other car manufacturers, because of national labor policies and unions
and other reasons, the transition is slow and difficult, although the United
States willing to save those car manufacturers, but under the impact of Japan's
automobile manufacturing industry and other advanced zero inventory, low cost,
excellent management, eventually leading
to the US heavy industry city Detroit's defeat. The current large-scale
enterprises should also feel threats from all aspects of low-cost, small
businesses or even foreign competition. Companies should change themselves with
China's open economic policy. The transition is of great urgency.
MRO Industrial Services:
The
ultimate goal of MRO supply chain management is to deliver the right items to
the right location at the right price at the right time. Then in order to
achieve this goal, MRO supply chain management cannot only operate as procurement.
In order to achieve MRO supply chain management objectives, we need to control the
upstream manufacturers, and establish friendly relations. Downstream dealers
have to maintain communication of information. When companies make a decision,
they need to ensure that the entire MRO supply chain services for the enterprise,
rather than manufacturers are only concerned about their own interests,
downstream dealers only concerned about the immediate market. Then in order to
achieve the agile of the entire MRO supply chain, generally there will be two
ways, first set up the project team, to serve the internal reform and external
communication, the second is to MRO outsourcing. The project team required
professional, deep understanding of internal problems, and having a good
communication with the upstream and downstream enterprises, generally enterprises
need to deploy various business talents into this team. Although the
establishment of the project team can do to solve their own transformation and
management issues, but will be accompanied by the conflict from company inside
and the lower efficiency because original enterprise departments lose their
brain drain. The upstream and downstream enterprises have to adapt to the slow
and other shortcomings. Because the exchange of issues, transition range and
time of MRO outsourcing service compared to the establishment of the project
team will be a long time, however, outsourcing will help companies shift the
risk of the original departmental conflicts, as well as the transformation of
various departments and reduce costs.
Because MRO outsourcing service providers do not have the internal management knowledge and system knowledge, according to the experience of foreign countries should generally require outsourcing service providers have the following characteristics:
1, good
operational experience to ensure the stability of the transition;
2, a strong data management, enterprise audit third-party data to ensure that
the enterprise control of the supply chain;
3, professional, to ensure the quality of procurement and the integration of the
original or new partners from top to bottom;
4, smooth communication to ensure fulfill the requirements of production line
workers or team leaders.
Through the above characteristics, companies can serve the enterprise
transformation and reduce the cost of demand. With advanced experience of
foreign technology, Cribsolution has accumulated years of experience in
cooperation with the world, independently developed a data management system,
with years of experience in the procurement team and set up a resident manager
to solve the immediate needs of the production line workers, and has In-house
processes to regulate the various departments within the enterprise experience.
We can personally help you solve the problem of transition.