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IHS Intermat Solutions provides a full range of industrial MRO parts optimization tools and services to help clients develop and maintain a standardized and enriched MRO parts database, and optimize MRO inventories. The solution set each client receives depends on a number of factors, including:
- size and complexity of their MRO inventory
- quality of their legacy data
- budgetary and time constraints for data conversion
IHS Intermat Solutions' cataloging methodology, the Standard Modifier Dictionary™ (SMD™), is the most widely used cataloging methodology in the world today. The SMD is used daily by more than 2,000 industrial plants and facilities in 33 countries for managing vast inventories of MRO parts and supplies, including pipes, valves, seals, bearings and associated plant equipment.
IHS Intermat Solutions' parts optimization services, delivered from our Houston, Texas headquarters, include a combination of custom item catalog description standardization and enhancement processes, supported by specialized, proprietary software tools. For over 29 years our parts optimization services have continuously set Intermat Solutions apart. Our proven processes have helped develop, consolidate and standardize customized MRO catalogs for thousands of plants around the world.
And because clients have varying requirements, business processes, internal workflows and ERP/EAM/MDM system configurations, IHS Intermat provides flexible and customizable catalog maintenance outsourcing services that include:
- Review and Quality Assurance of new item requests and item changes
- Research and enhancement of current catalog descriptions, including use of our in-house reference data sources
- Review and reporting of potential duplicate items
- Checks for generic equivalents of OEM procured parts
- Documentation and analysis of the catalog workflow
IHS Intermat Solutions Struxure® is the industry's leading catalog authoring and management tool. Struxure is powered by the SMD's parametric catalog item descriptions, allowing our customer to create, maintain and search for MRO materials and equipment parametrically or by item identifying reference numbers, enhancing procurement and maintenance processes throughout their organization. Struxure and SMD are compatible with leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), and Master Data Management (MDM) systems, including SAP® Materials Management (MM) module, SAP Service and Asset Management, SAP MDM, IBM/MRO Software Maximo®, Mincom®, Ventyx Asset Suite (Indus Passport™), Oracle (PeopleSoft®/JDE), Infor/Datastream, AssetPoint/TabWare, and many others.
IHS MRO Inventory Optimizer powered by xIO™ is the only industry and commercially proven, web-based solution expressly designed for use with MRO inventories. With IHS MRO Inventory Optimizer, customers can:
- Dynamically monitor and adjust Order Points, Order Quantities and Lead Times
- Identify items in danger of stock-out - proactively
- Monitor and manage Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Is in a web-architected environment
- Directly upload results to ERP/EAM systems
It provides real-time feedback and control – when to purchase, change order quantities and lead times – with scientific support and prioritized analysis. For the first time, clients can improve plant capacity and equipment availability while simultaneously reducing MRO investment.