MISL Energy

(SAP & ORACLE worldwide partner for inventory optimisation)

SAP, ORACLE, MAXIMO recommend the use of INTERMAT for inventory data cleansing and optimization.

IHS Intermat Solutions provides proven solutions for the standardization and enrichment of data used to identify a wide variety of indirect (industrial MRO) materials, such as pipes, valves, seals, bearings, supplies and associated plant equipment. Our taxonomy, the Standard Modifier Dictionary (SMD), is the most widely implemented standard for describing industrial MRO parts and supplies.

Our parts optimization software tools (Struxure® & SMD™) are used daily by over 2,000 industrial plants and facilities in 31 countries. Combined with our parts standardization and enrichment services, these tools form the foundation for a variety of comprehensive parts optimization solutions providing our customers with tangible and sustainable benefits.

Parts Optimization Services

Cleansing, standardization and enrichment of MRO parts information to industry-proven descriptive templates

• Utilization of best-in-class reference database for cost-effective enrichment

Duplicate Part Identification

• Identification and elimination of functionally equivalent and duplicate inventory
• Reduction in inventory levels by 5% to 20%
• Reduced inventory carrying costs
• Reduced procurement costs

Catalog Authoring and Management Software

• Development and maintenance of accurate and consistent MRO parts descriptions Enterprise-wide view into an organization’s inventory State-of-the-art catalog search.
• Certified integration with many of the leading enterprise resource planning   (ERP) and enterprise asset management (EAM) systems.
• More accurate and consistent MRO parts descriptions.
• Reduced procurement costs.
• Increased plant and equipment availability.
• Increased employee productivity.
• Increased operational effectiveness.
• Reduction in inventory levels by 5% to 20%.
• Reduced inventory carrying costs.
• Reduced procurement costs.
• Ongoing avoidance of false stock-outs.
• Ability to leverage organizational-wide purchasing information.
• Increased worker productivity from shortened parts and materials search times.
• Improved ERP and EAM system benefits by creating and maintaining part records in the materials master 28 Years of Best-in-Class Parts.
• Over a quarter century of experience offering a broad range of parts optimization services to help customers standardize, enrich and maintain MRO parts databases. These services range from identifying potentially duplicate inventory to verifying and enriching data on an item-by-item basis. Designs custom solutions for each client, and our parts optimization services are classified and managed in three phases
• Phase I: “First pass” service utilizes AutoCon™, our proprietary data conversion software tool, to automatically create SMD-based descriptions from unstructured, free-form text.
• Phase II: A more detailed “data standardization” service provides review and validation of parts data by IHS Intermat Solutions Material Analysts with respect to spelling, punctuation and presentation. Statistical sampling and specific item-by-item review is included to ensure consistency and accuracy.
• Phase III: “Fill-in-the-blanks” enrichment service completes the customer’s SMD-based descriptions through in-house research and/or on-site data collection.>
• Customers of our parts optimization solutions report payback periods of within three to  six months of project completion, along with a first-year ROI between 150% and 350%

Clean Structured Data – The Key to Unlocking the Value of SAP Business Applications

IHS Intermat pioneered the standardization of industrial MRO parts information over 28 years ago, and has a proven process to develop and maintain a clean structured item master.

IHS Intermat focuses on data cleansing of technical parts and materials content that is typically housed within the SAP Materials Management (MM) module. This supports the EAM capability of the SAP Service and Asset Management Suite, as well as MDM. Since clean structured data is required to fully unlock the potential of these SAP business applications, the majority of companies must perform some level of data cleansing/rationalization prior to go-live. Generally this isn’t an option, but a mandate to insure that implementations are successful.

IHS Intermat solutions are built around the Standard Modifier Dictionary (SMD)™.

The SMD is the de facto worldwide standard for describing MRO items - - utilized in more than 2,000 industrial plants and facilities for over 330 organizations in 32 countries, including over 100 implementations with SAP customers. These customers use the SMD (also known as a dictionary, taxonomy, nomenclature or schema) within SAP classification or MDM. MRO data is often “dirty” -- with unidentifiable, duplicate and non comparable item descriptions.

This dirty MRO data renders EAM and MDM systems ineffective, because users cannot effectively identify a part or replacement. In other words, if you can’t find it, you can’t buy it. And when items are described differently, inadequately, or incorrectly, it has significant negative impact on the organization. If you can’t find items because of poor descriptions, then duplicate items are created, and users buy parts outside of the system.

As a result, inventory values rise, inventory turn rates decrease, expedited part orders increase, and equipment downtime increases. All of these have a direct bottom-line effect in industries that often already have very tight profit margins.