The true cost of MRO

Posted on 23 Dec 2015 by The Manufacturer

RS Components (RS) shares its white paper – part of a series covering best practice maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) procurement – exploring why its complexity can disguise the scale of its costs, as well as, frustrate attempts to achieve cost savings.

The complexity of MRO procurement means that organisations spend a disproportionate amount of time sourcing and purchasing items that are of relatively small value, both individually and in total. These process costs are largely invisible, and therefore tend to be underestimated or even ignored, but can be significant. To put it into perspective, if an…

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