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- Capability framework
- 1. Diagnosis & shaping
- 2. Data enhancement
- 3. Benefits activation
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To get a return on investment from a spare parts data enhancement project, you will need the right mix of three ingredients: specific tools, efficient and affordable project workforce and a deep understanding of business content and objectives.
If you lack one of these ingredients, you risk paying too much to obtain the value you expect, or – maybe worse – paying less, but getting no benefit.
Adapted tools will speed-up the massive data processing, but also ensure data integrity, allow efficient parts comparison, and reduce your project costs and duration.
A trained workforce applying a robust methodology will be complementary to our data processing tools. Based off-shore, they handle the necessary manual work at an efficient cost.
Finally, processing mechanically spare parts data as any other set of data cannot bring significant value. That is why we think that the experience of our business consultants in MRO optimization will be key to turning your data project into a successful business project.
A spare parts data enhancement project will only be successful if it brings you concrete benefits such as reducing your inventory value, achieving sourcing savings or efficiently supporting your day-to-day operations.
What is the value of classifying your data if the level of granularity is not adapted to your business? Or the value of searching for duplicates in your database if the comparison criteria are not fully reliable? In which case is it worth spending time searching for complementary information, in which case is it a superfluous cost?
Neonec consultants will propose relevant, operable and sustainable classification and description standards. They will help you to avoid common pitfalls limiting the added value of the initiative or generating extra costs, and manage planning and quality along the project.
Our spare parts sourcing and inventory management expertise will ensure that the effort put on data is always business-oriented and that you exploit your enhanced data set to the maximum potential.
Tools are not what we sell, but what we use to get the job done quicker and cheaper.
We developed a modular set of tools and assets, all embedded in our lean methodology framework, that we operate ourselves to deliver the enhanced data with the quality level you expect directly to you.
First, a technical data structure adapted to each data use case, that you can use with little to no preliminary customization.
Then the different mass data processing algorithms we use to limit the manual workload of data classification, data reformatting, and data comparison.
It also includes the elements needed to speed-up the remaining manual tasks: a referent base of technical data from manufacturer catalogues, optimized ergonomic templates, easy-to-access sources of information and technical guidelines. One minute saved multiplied by 100 000 parts represents roughly one person's year of work…
Finally, database management for traceability of actions and efficient PMO.
Because your business is not about processing spare parts data, we will do it for you! This also includes tasks that an algorithm cannot tackle alone.
To finish the job after automated mass processing, Neonec relies on an off-shore team trained to operate our methodology and tools. This cost-efficient team will deal with the remaining tasks of manual classification, data formatting and research of complementary data in manufacturer documentation.
The team members, specialized by technical domain (electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic & pneumatic), are familiar with all the main manufacturer catalogues and with the optimized templates they use to perform manual tasks in a record time.
This off-shore workforce integrates not only technical specialists but also linguistic referents who can support processing of spare parts data in multiple languages.
The team can be sized to deliver the project within an aggressive timeline that takes into account your business constraints.
Collaboration
Our commitment throughout the project is to carry out the job while limiting your involvement to the minimum level necessary, allowing you to retain control while avoiding disruption of your operational activities.
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Before mass data processing starts, we will leverage our experience to help you to shape your data enhancement project.
This phase can be quick, but is critical for making the full project a success at the best cost.
Our consultants will start by collecting your expectations and constraints. Do you want to launch a transversal project adapted for all data users or something more specific to support sourcing or duplicates identification for example? Do you have specific planning constraints such as an upcoming system deployment?
We will also collect a first data set and any technical structure already in use in your company. This will allow us to diagnose initial data quality and shape it according to the enhancement effort.
We will then propose a technical structure adjusted to the level of complexity required for your business goals, and confirm the scope of parts worth the enhancement effort. You will then validate the most adapted project scenario in terms of timing and return on investment. -
We work offline on flat data extracted from your ERP. It allows you to retain control of the precise scope of parts you submit us, it avoids multiple external users having access to your system, it prevents any disturbance to ERP users during the recodification process and allows you to validate the quality of the data we deliver before they go live in your ERP.
Though part of the work will occur in our off-shore office, our on-shore consultants will remain your single points of contact to ensure continuity throughout the whole project.
We will deliver you batches of enhanced data ready to be re-uploaded onto your system. Between two deliveries, the disturbance for you will be limited at the most to few disambiguation questions on the conventions you want to use in your to-be master data. We will, however, be available to listen to any feedback or technical comments you may have and to integrate them into future deliveries.
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Once your spare parts data contain the right information organized the right way, efficient part segmentation and a comparison become possible.
Our consultants can guide you on how to identify and qualify the business opportunities it opens: duplicate inventory suppression, inventory sharing, sourcing volumes consolidation, spare parts standardization or substitution…
Our tools will allow us to provide efficient mass data comparison reports, adapted to the business objectives.
The operational experience and analytical skills of our consultants will then be at your service to qualify, plan and execute a pragmatic action plan.
You will then realize additional P&L or Working Capital savings on top of bringing all your data end-users the efficiency and comfort of an enhanced database from the day you re-upload it to your ERP.
To sustain those projects benefits, we will also help you to set-up the right parts creation processes within your organization or with our on-going support.