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My ideas: MRO Inventory Optimization

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Please create a work queue under 9 "QR" for "Quote Review"

As the Inventory get a quote we can add it to the work queue QR, It will enabale plant to prioritise their Plant reviews for quotes.
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Not under consideration

Include a field on each material to display the highest Business Impact and Moving Code value from any other plant in the business. MAke the field visible in grid view and reports.

When managing inventory at large multi site site operations - this will allow the materials to be consilidated at a central hub. The highest moving, or highest criticality site could be the holding location for any given material, allowing the inv...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Workflow Rules download facility

Currently workflow master approval table maintained in MROIO is not visible to users and cannot download the table, Every time user has to approach to IBM to provide the excel download. It is suggested to provide the master approval table visible ...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Functionality already exists

Ability for Approvers to update fields as a part of Workflow Approvals

As an Inventory Controller, I would like the capability for the original (1st) Workflow Approver to be able to update data against specific fields. These fields are those that contain information that is required to be provided by the Workflow App...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Ability to present 'Action' options to Approver(s) within Workflow Approvals

As an Inventory Controller, when creating some types of Workflow Rules, I would like the ability to add a list of 'options' for the original (1st) Workflow approver to choose from as a part of their approval, that relate to the result of the appro...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Display who the current approver is on a change request instead of only showing the final approver

When you are reviewing the workflow and seeing where change requests are awaiting review/approval, this feature will allow you to easily be able to see who the current approver is who is. This way, when reports are pulled we know where the request...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

Bulk Edit from File if errored should display more details

When the file used in bulk edit from file throws error, it will be good to have more details on the error like- no unique match found for some specific rows or missing items etc. Currently, we have to try various scenarios to troubleshoot the prob...
11 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

New ROP Method - LT Usg + x weeks/months of Supply

Client is evaluating different strategies to see the potential impact on inventory holding with various holding methodologies - The current inquiry is LT USG + 1 Month of Supply. It seems to me this ROP Method would be LT Usage + x weeks of supply...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Work Queue Exclusion option for items in Workflow

Items that are currently routing for approval may carry over from one month to the next. It would be good to have the option to exclude items from wok queue if they are routing for approval.
8 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Attachment sorting in form view from latest to earliest

In form view of items, newly added attachments are listed to the bottom of the existing list. Hence if we need to refer the related attachment to the latest workflow, needs to scroll down to the bottom. It is suggested to place the latest attachme...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1