{"id":2564,"date":"2008-10-22T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2008\/10\/22\/whitepaper-wednesday-mro-procurement\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:39:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T20:39:28","slug":"whitepaper-wednesday-mro-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-mro-procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitepaper Wednesday &#8211; MRO Procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another installment of Whitepaper Wednesday here on the Purchasing Certification Blog. Today, I\u2019ll be examining a whitepaper from Global eProcure called \u201cMRO Procurement: A Primer of Success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>This whitepaper begins by identifying all of the reasons that MRO procurement is problematic, mentioning some traditional problems as well as some interesting, less apparent tidbits such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Typically, over 70% of the MRO items in inventory turn less than once every two years<\/li>\n<li>Spot buys, which are unplanned purchases for items not set up in inventory, can account for up to 50% of the annual (MRO) spend<\/li>\n<li>Data management across plants is a challenge\u2026same item identified many ways in different systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The whitepaper then dives into some pretty decent detail on developing a sourcing strategy for MRO, going past the age-old distributor vs. manufacturer question and breaking down distributors into four categories, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. It describes how to build a market basket of MRO items similar to building a core list of office supplies as taught in the article \u201cOffice Supplies Sourcing Secrets\u201d and the accompanying podcast. The whitepaper continues with a very detailed example of how to analyze bids from MRO suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most important piece of advice comes at the end of the whitepaper, however: \u201cIs the procurement professional done when the MRO supplier selection process is complete? Far from it! Once the supplier selection process is completed, it is necessary to communicate, actually over communicate, the decision across the organization. It is critical that this communication be specific as to why the decision has been made and what the benefits the company can expect to result for this decision. The user community will not all be happy with the selection and some pushback can be expected. During the early implementation phase it will be necessary to work very closely with the supplier to proactively address user issues\/concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<p>Good job, Global eProcure.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re new to MRO procurement or even if you think you could use a refresher after years in MRO procurement, I highly recommend that you download this whitepaper from Global eProcure\u2019s Web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another installment of Whitepaper Wednesday here on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Whitepaper Wednesday - MRO Procurement - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-mro-procurement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whitepaper Wednesday - MRO Procurement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Welcome to another installment of Whitepaper Wednesday here on the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-mro-procurement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NextLevelPurchasing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-10-22T14:11:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-14T20:39:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/nlpa-images-035.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1067\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-mro-procurement\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-mro-procurement\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Galo Matagay\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/72d094fab77892483dfa6e061cb27eaa\"},\"headline\":\"Whitepaper Wednesday &#8211; 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