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MRO Inventory Optimization

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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...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Planned for future release

Email notification for approved workflow requests

Current scenario sends email notifications for pending workflow requests, but the team is not made aware of approved requests. As a result, the team is performing the workaround of manually keeping track of their requests awaiting approval.
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

A Workqueue report which goes beyond what the current data source ‘Live Workqueue History’ provides

With IBM Consultant Nick Green, we’ve been developing custom management reports in Analytics – one report we haven’t been able to do however is a Workqueue report which goes beyond what the current data source ‘Live Workqueue History’ provides. Cu...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Allow changes to duplicate item for cleanup after Manage Duplicates function is processed

When we Manage Duplicates, the item that we are moving the usage from becomes locked and we can no longer make any changes to that item. If we forget to set the item to Business Impact E and set the ROP/Max to 0/0 before we do the Manage Duplicate...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Please give me visibility to report on passed forecasted entries so I can track forecasting compliance

We get a list of forecasted demand from our AMT maintenance planning tool. We would like to compare the forecast with the actual use as the months roll over to allow us to report on forecasting compliance.
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Work Queues Records missing

Problem: All but two (2) Work Queues are showing records in the Work Queue tab in MRO IO and WQ Section in OAS. Steps to reproduce: Log into NPPD Sandbox MRO IO and navigate to Work Queues tab and you will find the Work Queues are all showing zero...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

To consider allowing the consumption graphs and reports to show data based on the data refresh day

We have noticed that the system displays consumption graph by month as a whole (1st day to last day of month) meanwhile the data e.g SOH, Qty on order, in-transit qty and Reserved qty values are display as per the day of data refreshed (for PETRON...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Admin tasks - add "PU Notification" checkbox against individual user entry

We are rolling out admin tasks to users. One important part of user administration is deciding who gets PU notifications. Please add a checkbox against each user record so as a client sets up a new user they can choose whether or not the new user ...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Stock Relocation History Additional consideration needed

The Stock History Relocation feature is critical for any organization that has materials that may be relocated from one warehouse to another at some point in it's life. In order for the MARIO system to make an adequate recommendation for the new s...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration