Supply Chain Optimization

Maintenance Repair and Operations (MRO) supply chain, when given serious consideration at all, is frequently seen as a challenge— a high-cost, but necessary evil to ensure the availability of parts that support equipment reliability. Among the challenges are integrating end-to-end planning, increasing reliability/availability of physical assets, optimizing inventory, and realizing effective spend management. Firms that have met these challenges have found MRO supply chain to be an opportunity to dramatically reduce costs while improving asset reliability. This paper provides an overview of some common challenges and effective solutions.