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MRO Inventory Optimization

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Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
8 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Addition of an logical Assignee column to Change Request

Adding an rule-based Assignee column to Change Requests would allow client supervisors or managers to “asssign” a CR prior to being picked up by a processor.
9 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Enable the Equipment Module (and Where Used) to be able to link to BOM’s using just ‘DIVISION’, instead of DIVISION and DISTRICT_CD

This is useful as it will allow client to filter through on materials issued against equipment at Division level and get the right count when they view that material against all District_Cd affected
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Designing a notification system - The Bell and notification centre window

Having a notification system could be useful in following areas: 1- Incoming request notifications, for example, notifications for workflow review requests which are assigned to a user to take an action on 2- Notification for action taken, for ex...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Exclude set periods from the Movement and Forecast Usage calculation due to strike or curtailment

Asset Intensive companies tend to have unionized labor forces that can go "on strike" for a number of months at a time. The usage during these strike periods tends to be considerably curtailed or non-existent. The impact of a 4-6 months-long strik...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Track users' changes for each item

This feature can be implemented as a new widget in item form or a new tab under Recent activity widget along with Note and workflow and only should display changes that users have made to an item. It's kind of an audit log and can be used in troub...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Analytics report that provides live information on the changes made by users.

Management would like to see how may items are reviewed/exported/changed by users. This could be listed on the item grid so it's included in the item export.
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Equipment Linked to Item - Bulk Download Capability

It's great that the Equipment module allows you to search the equipment and then list the items attached to them. However, we need the ability to show, and download, the referenced Equipment for the Item.
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Functionality already exists

Add options to expand equipment module items search

Many Clients have hub-spoke materials distribution, a central distribution center where replenishment occurs and stock is held in an "on-shore" plant, which supplies an one or several "off-shore" plants via transfer order. The way Equipment module...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Planned for future release

Enable tasks in MRO IO that use to be performed by BEN-BOT

Enabling the tasks to be performed within the product would assist in training as knowledge of other tools would not be required. Also the expressions required to query/run tasks can be managed by the tool.Such tasks include: list of users current...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release