Outsourcing of maintenance: the best bet of the Finance Department in times of crisis
June 23, 2011
In fact, the current economic context, where there are many periods of downtime, interruptions, reduced orders subject to a strong stock control or the sudden emergence of large commissions needed more that never adopt policies and measures that help to better management of time and resources.
We see that, often, maintenance engineers and purchasing teams spend too long to deal with the immediate problems so that production lines do not stop. This implies a clear impact on their productivity and efficiency: the time dedicated to it rather than bring value to the company to focus on important projects is an important and strategic decline in the company's resources.
Opt for a proactive approach to improve the maintenance of the spare parts as well, often results in significant financial and operational benefits for companies. In fact, every day are more companies decide to outsource services of maintenance, repair and operations (MRO, its acronym in English) to recognize the complexity of the task and its numerous points of improvement.
Good practice both focuses on optimizing the existing inventory, and standardize key products and technologies that are used in the production plant. Therefore, producing leading-edge companies know that recourse to independent MRO professionals represents a guarantee of efficiency and safe production.
Subcontract management of MRO parts to an authorized Professional Distributor is, therefore, much more than a way to make savings in the short term, is a guarantee of continuity in purchases that allows a professional partner of MRO improve the liquidity of the customer and reduce working capital by optimizing its inventory of spare parts. In fact, an Insite allows you to minimize the risk of periods of downtime and optimize the operation of the production plant due to a technical expert advice that identifies improvements in processes, energy efficiency and the supply of products with a lower acquisition cost.
The formula of an Insite is increasingly a recurring solution customers of the given Brammer which allows you to provide a full range of technical assistance and advice, as well as continuous improvement projects to provide greater productive efficiency.
Subcontract management MRP of spare parts to an authorized Professional Distributor is much more than a way to save in the short term to reduce administrative costs and supplier management. It is also a guarantee of continuity in purchases that allows the professional partner of MRO improve the liquidity of your customer and reduce its working capital to optimize their inventory of spare parts. In addition, it is also an optimal solution to foster an environment of collaboration between customer and supplier work, offering greater profitability and operating in periods of production performance.