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MRO

Effectively sourcing and managing Maintenance, Repair and Operating (MRO) supplies can present many challenges to any organization. MRO purchases are typically low dollar/high volume items that consist of many generic consumables intermixed with OEM parts. Most organizations maintain significant capital investment in these supplies and inventory turnover ratios rarely meet corporate asset management requirements. Some of the major concerns and issues faced by all organizations sourcing and managing MRO are listed below:

• Cost reduction pressures
• Decentralized operations
• Fragmented purchasing of indirect goods
• High degree of ’maverick’ purchasing
• Management of large numbers of Indirect suppliers
• Quality of some goods and services
• Market knowledge in specific categories
• Multiple procurement and asset management systems across business units
• Labor intensive manual transaction processing activities
• Lack of subject matter expertise in procurement of Services
• Lack of global item/product/supplier knowledge and/or visibility
• Lack of standard naming conventions across the enterprise
• Low inventory turnover ratio
• Large number of parts (SKUs) maintained in inventory
• Lack of effective warranty management and returns program
• EOQs, Safety Stock, lead times, and reorder points not set correctly for needs and market conditions

Today, Corbus MRO outsourcing services are managing more and more MRO activities once handled by in-house staff.

Corbus’ decades of experience and capabilities in MRO outsourcing provides budget flexibility and lets organizations pay for only the services they need, when they need them. We help our clients reduce the need of hiring and training a specialized staff and provide expertise that leads to a reduction of investment in non-performing inventory assets as well as lowering the TCO (total cost of ownership) for all products and related services.

Corbus MRO outsourcing services can provide significant benefits via:

• Reduced Total Cost of Ownership for all MRO products and related services
• Improved supplier relationship and contract management
• Access to World Class Capabilities, Experience, and Expertise – from the first day of engagement
• Six Sigma trained staff
• Implementation of MRO best practices across the enterprise
• Shift Volatile Variable Costs to Predictable Fixed Costs
• Transfer Internal Resources to Higher Value Activities
• Support in centralization initiatives
• Enhanced process standardization with faster, less expensive processing
• Enhanced information management
• Shift/Share Operating Risks
• Flexible and Competitive Domestic, Offshore, Onsite, or Offsite Model

Spot Buys

A spot buy occurs whenever the initial procurement for each item is exhausted and there is unmet demand. As spot buy purchases are usually accompanied by higher unit costs, there is an incentive to minimize these purchases by having sufficient initial procurements.

Corbus provides a one-stop solution for all your spot buy requirements. Sourcing and procurement of non-forecasted spot buy needs is one of the additional value added services which Corbus provides as part of service offerings. Our tactical sourcing staff will respond within 3 business days to all spot buy requests. We utilize our in depth database of supplier network and also leverage our alliances, partners and aggregators to reduce the cost and time.

Once the item is sourced, we communicate with you to secure your final approval. The item is automatically added to the electronic catalog for future sourcing.