Struxure®
Struxure is IHS Intermat’s catalog authoring and management software. It provides the content management functionality to develop and maintain standardized descriptions for Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) items and materials. Struxure is designed to help companies fully enable the value of their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems by ensuring clean, consistent, structured descriptions in material and item masters.
Struxure is built to take maximum advantage of the Standard Modifier Dictionary™ (SMD™), the world's most comprehensive and widely used standard for describing MRO materials. Struxure's powerful catalog management features include new item creation, maintenance tools, global value standardization, short and long description generation, catalog search, duplicate/alternate identification, and the ability to store and display attachments such as images, documents, catalog pages, and web links. Struxure has certified integrations and/or connectors to many leading ERP, EAM and MDM systems, such as SAP, IBM Maximo, and many others (see System Integration & Compatibility section below).
Struxure supports a distributed workforce by facilitating mass deployment of, and access to, MRO catalogs. Struxure is a Microsoft®.NET web-based software application providing a "zero footprint" installation throughout an organization.
Tangible & Sustainable Benefits
Struxure enables our customers to realize hard dollar savings through:
- Identification of duplicate inventory
- Identification of lower cost, functionally equivalent non-OEM alternates
- Avoidance of false stock-outs
- Simplification of inventory searches
- Reduction in equipment downtime
- Realizing maximum benefits from their ERP/EAM systems.
Advanced Cataloging Features
To create and maintain descriptions that are accurate, complete, and consistent, you need a standard. Struxure leverages the most refined and established standard for describing MRO materials, used in thousands of plants worldwide – the Standard Modifier Dictionary (SMD). The SMD provides the instructions and rules for creating consistent standardized description, and Struxure enforces those rules.
Struxure is built to take maximum advantage of the SMD, the world's most widely used and accepted standard for the description of MRO parts and supplies. |
Struxure includes advanced catalog search functionality, which enables users to browse and locate inventory by item description, category, attribute/characteristic, or by a series of references such as vendor, plant, commodity code, UNSPSC/eCl@ss code, and status.
Value Standardization is one of Struxure's most powerful tools, allowing users to modify characteristic values while maintaining the consistency and integrity of their catalog database. |
Additionally, Struxure facilitates database management by allowing users to update and expand line-item parameters globally, while maintaining the consistency and integrity of their catalog database. For example, if in one record the characteristic value "stainless steel" is changed to "SS", that modification can be changed throughout the database within the appropriate context.
Struxure enforces the SMD standard when users add or edit item records. It ensures that every description is standardized and normalized, even if they have been entered by different users in different plants. |
System Integration and Compatibility
Struxure is compatible with the 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. Both Struxure and SMD have integrations certified for SAP NetWeaver®.