Common Challenges in Materials Management
Typical challenges when optimizing materials management systems, from lack of transparency to siloed processes, can impact planning, data integration and overall operational efficiency.
Lack of Transparency
As a critical component of the overall asset lifecycle, a well-defined and properly governed material master is essential. A structured asset definition, whether for bulk materials or tagged items, allows clients to effectively catalog, classify, track and manage materials throughout the entire downstream data chain.
Disparate Data Sets
In today’s process industries, there are a significant number of opportunities to collect data points from different sources that need to be connected, contextualized and actioned to be effectively utilized. By having the right tools, work processes, reporting and dashboards available, you can make quicker and smarter decisions for your organization.
Lack of Integrated Planning
Whether for capital projects or operations and maintenance, not fully integrating materials management into supply chain or construction planning activities can have adverse effects during projects installation or maintenance work orders. This leads to low confidence in project planning, delays or outages due to missing materials and reduced ability to complete forecasting or look-ahead planning activities.
Siloed Work Processes
The materials management lifecycle engages every discipline of an organization at one point or another. Each function knows its role in the lifecycle, but these work processes often are not aligned across an organization’s functions. This leads to misalignment, duplicate data or lack of trust in data causing unrealistic expectations, delays or missing material based on requirements and availability.
Optimizing Your Materials Management Capabilities
At ReVisionz, we understand that materials management is the backbone of project success. With over two decades of experience, we transform disjointed processes into streamlined operations. We start by assessing your current materials management maturity and identifying root causes of inefficiencies to set a clear roadmap for improvement.
Our team leverages advanced digital tools, comprehensive catalogs and optimized workflows to ensure seamless supply chain coordination and real-time material tracking. This holistic approach not only reduces costs and delays but turns your challenges into a competitive advantage.
Unlock Project & Operational Excellence With ReVisionz
Digital Enablement & Consulting
We work with you to develop strategies for optimizing Materials Management through:
- Value-based business cases
- Current state assessments
- Business capabilities roadmap aligned with corporate initiatives
- Work process analysis, governance, standards and digital enablement
Data and Insights
We apply industry standards to enhance and support:
- Reference data structure and definition
- Master data extraction
- Data enrichment and migration
- Data governance and data auditing
Technology Enablement & Sustainment
We align the technology requirements with business capabilities for:
- Software implementations
- Software integration: Operational Technology (OT), Information Technology (IT), Engineering Technology (ET)
- Content management
- Technical requirements
- Sustainment services
Data Governance & Change Enablement
We support your Materials Management transformation by:
- Developing and implementing KPIs and quality dashboards
- Supporting user adoption and training
- Developing a custom approach to enablement and training to utilize with your Change Enablement processes
Intelligent Asset Management Integration
We improve your IAM maintenance planning and execution through:
- Master data standards and audits
- Integrated asset management strategy planning
- Work management planning
- Inventory optimization
Change Enablement & Training
The success of your materials management is directly tied to people embracing, adopting and using your new solution. Successful transformations require a strategy for the technological, organizational and individual impacts of related changes.
ReVisionz develops a client-customized change enablement and training approach as part of all our services. This is critical to achieving the intended results for your asset and prepares your organization to maximize value delivery from your projects.
Effective & Actionable Change
Our approach to change management is based on the PROSCI industry model. We adapted the model to increase the effectiveness of asset and process safety information management transformations across your site or enterprise. It considers change management from the perspective of four key levers:
Leadership & Ownership
Establishing alignment of leaders and teams, alignment of roles with capabilities and expectations, and defined ownership.
Communication
Sharing the vision, the business case, the plan, and the expected outcomes.
Knowledge Transfer & Training
Developing and delivering training to build sustainable skills and capabilities.
Business Readiness & Measurement
Understanding organizational impacts, assessing and enabling readiness, measuring progress, and risk.
Success Stories
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ReVisionz helped improve the asset registry for a mining company through their deployment of VEERUM’s data visualization software. This enabled our team to identify incorrect and missing information for the client, saving up to 60% of the cost compared to manually reviewing the registry.
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Foundation for Operational Excellence & Digital Transformation
ReVisionz helps build an enterprise-wide asset information management system.
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