MRO Management

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MRO market observers forecast steady growth driven by the need for businesses to transform and streamline their indirect and non-production spending programs.

Thomas Group’s Approach

Thomas Group’s MRO management solution can relieve your current MRO management headaches and reduce costs between 15 and 35 percent over a five-year period.

Key hallmarks of Thomas Group’s MRO offering include:

  • Zero parts markup
  • Experienced professionals with proven track records
  • Spend to value capture

Thomas Group becomes part of your procurement team efficiently addressing and optimizing all hidden MRO cost drivers:

  • Cost of acquisition: sourcing, order processing, order expediting, transportation, receiving, and payment
  • Cost of maverick buying and non-contract compliance
  • Cost of non-standardization: inconsistent and conflicting specifications
  • Cost of material management: carrying costs, consolidation of requisitions, inventory management, cash flow, obsolescence, cost of space, depreciation tax savings, utilities
  • Cost of quality and other operating costs: errors, rework, downtime, production efficiency, full utilization, and end-user satisfaction
When you select Thomas Group as your partner, we solve for all aspects of MRO costs:
  • Category management strategy
  • Spend complexity
  • Supplier fragmentation
  • Management information, metrics and controls
  • Supplier performance scorecard: turns, on-time delivery, lead times, pricing, etc.
  • Elimination of middle men, e.g., local distributors, regional distributors
  • Parts catalog management
  • SKU rationalization and standardization
  • P-card usage control
  • Demand management
  • Warranty recovery
  • Critical spares management

Outsourcing your MRO to Thomas Group will result in:

  • Reduced spot buys
  • Improved productivity of procurement
  • Enhanced management of critical spares
  • Lower operating and capital costs
  • Improved focus on traditional businesses
  • Improved access to world-class MRO abilities, talents, and experience
  • Shifting of variable costs to predictable costs
  • Reassignment of remaining staff to more productive activities
  • Reduction of operational risks

How Thomas Group Can Help

Thomas Group takes a holistic approach to managing its clients’ MRO supply chain; we take responsibility for all MRO activities, including strategic sourcing, category management, the entire producer-to-pay cycle, back office processing, material management, tool store management, and maintenance activity integration.

Thomas Group MRO guiding principles:

  • Zero parts mark-up
  • 100 percent cost transparency

Let Thomas Group help you realize your potential by implementing Breakthrough Performance with MRO Management solutions.