Common Challenges in Materials Management
Owners often struggle with transparency issues around materials management due to disconnected work processes or lacking data governance. This makes it challenging to establish a single source of truth or reliable source of material status and will hinder effective forecasting or planning activities.
Lack of Transparency of Materials Information
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—enables clients to effectively catalog, classify, track, and manage materials throughout the entire downstream data chain.
Disparate Data Sets
In today’s process there are a ton of data points from different disciplines which need to be connected, understood and actioned. By having the right tools, work processes and reporting available you can make quicker decisions.
Lack of Integrated Planning
Whether for capital projects or operations & maintenance, not fully integrating materials management into planning activities results in adverse effects to projects 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 is a work process that engages every discipline and function of an organization at one point or another, from engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance, finance and all others in between.
Each function knows its role in the lifecycle, but these work processes often are not aligned or integrated across an organization’s functions or divisions. This leads to misalignment, duplicate data or lack of trust in data causing unrealistic expectations, delays or missing material based on requirements and availability.
Optimize Your Materials Management Capabilities with ReVisionz
The Materials Management experts at ReVisionz are committed to ensuring your team is enabled to have the right materials, in the right quantities, at the right time and place, all at the right cost.
Our seasoned professionals don’t just optimize your current materials management processes—we bring a deep technical understanding of the engineering data that underpins it. From crafting a digital enablement roadmap to executing seamless technology implementations and enterprise asset management integration, ReVisionz customizes a materials management optimization program tailored to your business needs.
Trust our team’s extensive expertise to drive efficiency and improve operational excellence.
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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 & Insights
We apply industry standards to enhance and support:
- Reference data structure & 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 & OCM
We support your Materials Management transformation by:
- Developing and implementing KPIs and quality dashboards
- Supporting user adoption/training
- Developing a custom approach to enablement and training to incorporate with your OCM processes
Enterprise Asset Management Integration
We improve your EAM 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 program 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.
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