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MRO Inventory Optimization

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Ability to track parts transfers out from a site and to the receiving site

Useful for tracking the flow of transferred inventory, including dead and re-deployable inventory, and which site are supporting this process.
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Functionality already exists

System rejected materials due to refresh to the original settings from the initial submission

Materials that are not approved before the MRO IO system refresh, either Delta or monthly, are rejected and returned to the Items list in MRO IO in the base state that they were originally in prior to review by planners or maintenance personnel. T...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Historic import data retrieval

Users should be able to download 12 months of imported data in zip format.
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

PU failure rollback and alert

Upon PU failure the system should revert back to a useable state and notifications sent to users who are subscribed to that alert type (see https://ibm-ai-apps.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/MRO-I-112). Ideally this would also automatically create a support ...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

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

Set ROQ to One as a new ROQ Method

Many of our clients manage their 'Repairable' stocked materials by setting a Re-Order Qty (ROQ) = 1. In the case of our SAP clients, this means setting the Maximum to be the same as the Re-Order Point (ROP). This request is to create a new ROQ Met...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

User Access management Enhancement - Archiving users

Some clients have hundreds of user accounts that are "inactive" accounts due to user turnover for instances that are a decade old. The accounts need to be retained so the user action/notes retain integrity, however it would be useful to have an "a...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

BULK Attachment option to add in BULK Edit

At Present, while creating a bulk workflow -- we need to go into each item to add an attachment (e.g. if create a Bulk workflow of 100 materials, then we need to go into each material 100 times to add an attachment to have a future reference) It ...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Planned for future release

Hide Recommended (Export) ROP, Recommended (Export) ROQ fields for MTC/OPS User Role

• As part of Item request feature roll out, end users (maintenance planners) will now need to submit item requests (stock level change requests) in MRO IO. More than 500 end users will now have read only access to MRO IO. • As we all know material...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

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