MRO Purchasing : Optimizing MRO Procurement via Practical Techniques to Supply Chain Elements - Inventory/Warehousing

PROGRAM SUMMARY

The supplies of MRO’s (Maintenance, Repair and Operations or Overhaul) items are critical to ensure the effective operations in many industries, for example, Utilities, Oil and Gas production, etc. Here essential spare parts are needed to ensure the continuity of production and are therefore considered by some organizations as being indirect purchasing.

MRO’s however need managing from many perspectives; for example, the inventory and stocking policies, the purchasing and buying perspectives and the warehousing and storing aspects. This seminar will cover all of these topics including how to optimise the inventory holding to ensure that too high levels of inventory are not held with the attendant increases to costs and product obsolescence.


WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND?

Understand the full process involved in the MRO purchasing and become a Master Buyer for MRO items by learning best practices, especially:
• Understand and implement the essential tools for managing MRO items chain
•Make needed changes to methods to improve customer service whilst
achieving reductions in costs and inventory holding
• Eliminate wasteful costs
• Avoid those internal problems that limit performance
• How to analyse MRO stock and inventory?
• Understand the role of inventory in the supply chain
• Balance cost and service requirements
• Examine the link of MRO items in the company supply chain operations and activities
• Identify and Understand key performance indicators


PROGRAM OUTLINE

• MRO and Supply Chain
• MRO Optimization & Improvement : Exercise -Identify what was learned from instruction to this point
• Inventory Considerations : Exercise - How to demonstrate the new inventory skills learned?
• Key Considerations for Selecting a High Quality Supplier
• Ensuring Success : Discussion - Why most organizations do not apply these in their operations?
• Establishing Agreements
• Case Study : Information provided for this case study will have you relate to the principles and techniques presented in the instruction. The case will include data and facts associated with the enterprise described. Participants will be organized into groups who will review and analyze the information provided. They will address specific questions noted as part of their solution.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Those who directly or indirectly manage MRO or Indirect Materials;
• Those non MRO people who need to gain an awareness of the issues and key drivers of such items;
• Inventory, Production, Stock, Supply Chain, Logistics, Warehouse,
Distribution Supervisors and Managers
• Owners, Operators and Directors of companies who hold MRO items

The Purchasing & Procurement Center provides hard hitting and top of the range information for purchasing & procurement professionals. The focus of the Center is to help purchasing & procurement professionals to excel in their job functions.

Among the services provided by the Center are:

- Purchasing & Procurement Reports

These reports are based on actual practical experience by featuring real life scenarios and case studies. They provide the “how to” of doing things in the Purchasing & Procurement Department.

- Purchasing & Procurement Webinars

Webinars are focused on very specific topics within the procurement function that help to answer day to day challenges that a procurement professional faces in his job. They are usually short (less than 1 hour) and are best utilised to answer burning questions that a procurement professional needs the answer to.

- Purchasing & Procurement Seminars

These live seminars are of the highest caliber for the procurement professionals. The material and needs are gathered by well-trained researchers. The courses are designed to give our clients the latest practical tools that they need to solve different issues. These seminars provide our clients an opportunity to gain invaluable experience through bench-marking and networking with their peers thru real life case studies and exercises.

- Purchasing & Procurement In-House Training/Programs

The in-house training are based on requests from clients that prefer specific procurement skills, competencies and situations to be imparted to their employees and senior management.

- Purchasing & Procurement Consultancy Services

Consultancy services are based on requests from clients that prefer skills and consultancy expertise.


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