Science Warehouse and One MRO partner to provide integrated inventory management and eProcurement

April 22, 2013 - PRLog -- Science Warehouse, one of the fastest growing companies in the UK e-business sector, has agreed a strategic partnership with One MRO Limited, a specialist solution provider of maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) management and optimisation services. One MRO has selected Science Warehouse following an extensive global evaluation of e-procurement vendors, to create their latest product, MRO Direct, a unique online marketplace for e-procurement.

The new partnership will add intuitive, scalable and proven procurement tools to the innovative One MRO portfolio, which already serves organisations that have sizeable investments in plant and equipment. For many businesses, MRO represents a significant proportion of annual expenditure and the One MRO Toolbox is designed to reduce that expenditure through improved inventory accuracy, operational efficiencies and cost control providing a thorough analysis into all aspects of MRO operations. Detailed spend analysis is widely recognised as key to identifying savings opportunities, influencing the bottom line and informing the strategic planning process.  

Tony Goodwin, CEO of One MRO, said: “For the majority of organisations, the focus has been on improving the accuracy, control and management of MRO inventory, but by creating the MRO Direct procurement platform with Science Warehouse, One MRO can now also improve a customer’s quality of post-spend activity data to a point that was previously impossible. While there undoubtedly remains a benefit in analysing legacy data, the solution Science Warehouse have provided for our needs offers the major advantage of capturing high quality spend data at the point of purchase.”

Tony added: “Science Warehouse has impressed me with their obvious skill and expertise in managing the cataloguing and data preparation for a myriad of difficult and technically complex products. Benefitting from this expertise will deliver significant advantages to our customers, especially those whose challenges lie within the successful management of large and complex plant”.

Steve Kerridge, Managing Director of Science Warehouse, said: “We are delighted to be working with One MRO to offer a unique end-to-end MRO spend management solution. This combines state-of-the-art on-site inventory management with a fully integrated procurement and managed catalogue solution. Customers benefit from a fast and easy to use solution that helps them make more informed buying decisions. Structured MRO parts data drives user adoption and contract compliance and takes spend analytics to a new level.  There is a real appetite in MRO for doing things smarter and the combined offering provides a unique and complete solution to address the widest of MRO operational requirements.”

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Media Contacts

For further information please contact Sonia Ali at Science Warehouse, 0333 600 6300, sonia.ali@sci-ware.com.

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About Science Warehouse

Science Warehouse is a leading provider of purpose built on-demand procurement and managed catalogue solutions that deliver purchasing efficiencies and control, spend visibility and drive savings. Science Warehouse help organisations to achieve full procurement control by collating all of their preferred suppliers for indirect goods and services in a single, easy-to-use web-based application. Its fully customisable product suite integrates seamlessly with any finance system and the managed catalogue engine at its core accelerates procure-to-pay programmes. Continuous, customer-driven product development ensures the solution evolves in line with market needs. Science Warehouse counts some of the world’s leading research and teaching organisations amongst its customers as well as businesses of all sizes in sectors as diverse as construction, life sciences and manufacturing. To find out more please visit our website at www.sci-ware.com or join the conversation at www.sci-ware.com/blog

About One MRO

One MRO brings together the world’s most advanced and effective MRO technologies and services for delivery to progressive, global manufacturers seeking to gain increased control of their maintenance, repair and operations materials to drive efficiencies that rapidly hit the bottom line.

For operations, procurement and financial personnel in the manufacturing, utilities and process industries seeking to achieve greater operational and financial performance, One MRO is a technology driven provider of advanced inventory management, procurement and analytics tools and services that deliver substantial improvement.  Unlike traditional vendors, One MRO delivers a truly integrated and independent service providing whole of market access to best in class suppliers of products, services and inventory management control with fastest realised benefits for asset-intensive companies in the industry. To find out more about how we could help you optimise your MRO programme, please visit our website at http://onemro.co.uk/sci-ware0513.