MRO Management

MRO market observers forecast steady growth driven by the need for businesses to transform and streamline their indirect spending programs.

Thomas Group’s Approach

Thomas Group’s MRO outsourcing solution can relieve your current MRO management headaches and reduce MRO costs between 15 and 34 percent over a five-year period.

Key hallmarks of Thomas Group’s MRO offering include:

  • Zero parts markup
  • Experienced professionals with proven track records

Thomas Group becomes part of your procurement team efficiently addressing and optimizing all hidden MRO cost drivers:

  • Cost of acquisition: sourcing, order processing, order expediting, transportation, receiving, and payment
  • Cost of maverick buying and non-contract compliance
  • Cost of non-standardization: inconsistent and conflicting specifications
  • Cost of material management: carrying costs, consolidation of requisitions, inventory management, cash flow, obsolescence, cost of space, depreciation tax savings, utilities
  • Cost of quality and other operating costs: errors, rework, downtime, production efficiency, full utilization, and end-user satisfaction

When you select Thomas Group as your MRO partner, nothing escapes our notice:

  • Spend complexity
  • Supplier fragmentation
  • MRO management mindset
  • Management information, metrics and controls
  • Supplier performance scorecard: turns, on-time delivery, lead times, pricing, etc.
  • Elimination of middle men, e.g., local distributors, regional distributors
  • Parts catalog management
  • SKU rationalization and standardization
  • P-card usage control
  • Demand management
  • Warranty recovery
  • Critical spares management

Outsourcing your MRO to Thomas Group can result in:

  • Reduced spot buys; increased blanket-purchase orders
  • Personnel reductions; improved productivity of remaining staff
  • Enhanced management of critical spares
  • Lower operating and capital costs
  • Improved focus on traditional businesses
  • Improved access to world-class MRO abilities, talents, and experience
  • Shifting of variable costs to predictable costs
  • Reassignment of remaining staff to more productive activities
  • Reduction of operational risks

How Thomas Group Can Help

Thomas Group takes a holistic approach to managing its clients’ MRO supply chain; we take responsibility for all MRO activities, including strategic sourcing, category management, the entire producer-to-pay cycle, back office processing, material management, tool store management, and maintenance activity integration.

Thomas Group MRO guiding principles:

  • Zero parts mark-up
  • 100 percent cost transparency

Let Thomas Group help you realize your potential by implementing Breakthrough Performance with MRO Outsourcing solutions.