Improved equipment effectiveness
MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, AND OPERATIONS (MRO)
Maximise OEE levels by optimising inventory
Slimstock’s Slim4 platform helps companies elevate overall equipment effectiveness to new levels by increasing MRO inventory reliability, and through optimal balancing of operational continuity and costs.
Reduced emergency purchases
PROVEN IMPACT ON AVAILABILITY, INVENTORY & SERVICE LEVELS FOR SOME OF THE BIGGEST GLOBAL NAMES REQUIRING MRO OPTIMISATION
The trusted partner for the MRO sector
Optimise your MRO supply chain from end-to-end
Slimstock understands that MRO items typically have very low turnover rates, making stock parameters and replenishment timing complex processes to get right. They require AI-driven, holistic, end-to-end visibility of what’s needed at what time.
- Increase overall equipment effectiveness: fight back against depreciation with precise lifecycle management.
- Improve MRO inventory reliability: anticipate demand and peaks with near certainty.
- Balance operational continuity with inventory costs: ensure availability without overspending and overstocking.
Overcome today’s MRO supply chain challenges
Slim4 addresses the unique demands of the MRO sector, ensuring you stay ahead in a unique market that’s all about timing.
SKU criticality
Challenge
There is often difficulty in defining SKU criticality, making it more likely to panic order or prioritise lower value items.
Solution
From ABC/XYZ classifications to customised stock policies and insurance inventory, Slim4 encourages data-driven prioritisation of items.
Depreciation
Challenge
With long lead times and low turnovers, depreciation is a much higher risk, harming inventory efficiency and sustainability metrics.
Solution
By anticipating demand accurately, you can ensure you only have stock that you need, reducing the risk of depreciation or obsolescence.
Low service levels
Challenge
Despite high inventory levels, the sector is typified by low service levels, pointing to mismanagement of that inventory.
Solution
Slim4 optimises inventory management at a granular level, ensuring that orders are fulfilled, sales are maximised, and customer loyalty is retained.
Low visibility
Challenge
Due to the need to recondition items, there is often low visibility of stock given their delayed or sporadic movement.
Solution
Slim4 addresses the unique needs of MRO, embedding item movements up and down the chain into inventory decisions, and giving decision-makers clear visibility of what’s available in real-time.
Forecasting
Challenge
With lower turnover rates, it’s more difficult to forecast for the future, often resulting in understocking should demand spike, and overstocking at other times.
Solution
Slim4 analyses historical data as well as the real-time situation to create more accurate forecasts, and to ensure ideal inventory levels at all times.
Team allignment
Challenge
There is often a disconnect between supply chain and technical teams, leading to a misalignment of what’s needed, when, and where.
Solution
As a holistic platform, Slim4 provides one source of truth, ensuring accurate data can be shared and communicated across teams for optimal decision-making and mutual understanding.
Slim4’s key features for MRO
Slimstock’s holistic platform provides powerful, industry-specific tools to transform MRO supply chain planning and execution.
Automatic demand classification
Slim4 allows for automatic classification of demand. This factors in the use of various replenishment policies to offset low turnover rates, and stock parameters that are often updated ‘on demand’.
Prioritised insurance inventory
One replenishment policy is insurance inventory which ensures that critical items are restocked as a priority, and that items with no demand history are not forecasted under that policy.
Slim4’s stock policy module is adaptable to each item’s criticality. Working to a system of scores, weights, and rules, users can seamlessly submit criticality assessments for technical team validation.
Both minimum order quantities and incremental order quantities can be adapted, according to the specifications of the application, set by the equipment manufacturer or technical team.
Optimise replenishment and supply processes across the logistics chain, based on completely synchronised, end-to-end data.
By forecasting with accuracy and anticipating real-time and future demand, Slim4 drastically reduces the likelihood of item obsolescence, even for MRO purposes.
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TESTIMONIALS FROM THE MRO INDUSTRY
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20%
Stock value reduction
Reduction in inventory on hand from 11 to 9 months
94%
Availability
"Slimstock's supply planning solution, with its predictive analytics, has increased our supply chain fulfillment while reducing 20% the stock value."
Renova Hutagalung
National Inventory Logistics and Purchasing Manager
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Game-changer for our Supply Chain performance.
Once we had decided on which Supply Chain planning software you implement, it was a relatively straightforward implementation. We had great support from the Slimstock implementation team throughout the whole process.
Slim4 has helped us centralize our purchasing, which has led to less time spent overall when it comes to purchasing.
At the same time we have increased our service levels to customers by several percentage points while keeping our stock levels low.
Slim4 was an easy tool to learn with an intuitive interface.
The team was quite hands-on in getting the implementation done as efficiently as possible and the results were quite evident from the get-go.
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