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Manpower: Materials management

Reduce cost through optimized management of materials and spare parts

Keel offers Materials Management support, including building up warehouses, checking, updating and optimizing stock and warehouse/inventory, and improving procurement. Optimizing materials management is a key to cost efficiency in the Offshore Energy Sector.

Keel helps customer optimize materials management CMMS systems such as SAP MM, reducing materials spending significantly. Keel’s deep understand of daily operations in asset-intensive industries, of equipment and maintenance procedures helps us identify optimizations that reduce excess stock and specify alternative spare parts.

Optimizing materials management covers:

Building up warehouses and improving procurement
Checking, updating and optimizing stock and warehouse/inventory
Quality control of purchasing and ordering of spare parts
Compliance with standards and procedures for materials
Providing materials men/logistics coordinators on site (offshore, oil field)

Our inventory management services include:

Spare parts analysis
On site equipment tagging (offshore)
Creating Bill of Materials (BOM)
Master data management
Data quality optimization
Onsite training of staff

From on-site logistics coordinators to back-office specialists cleaning up physical warehouse and assets data in system.

Keel offers a full-circle improvement of materials management, covering the entire cycle from physical inventory checks to cleaning up MM system.

On-site Technical Services

Keel also provided on-site (offshore) materials management work on the rig/vessel/plant, performed by experienced Materials
Men/Logistics Coordinators

Physical inventory check on technical units, aligning stock with SAP data
Unpacking, labelling, organizing and registering spare parts
On-site training of staff
On-site inventory management
On-site tagging of materials

SAP Application Support

For different customers, Keel is running ongoing support of the SAP MM system. We have helped reducing the customer’s spending on materials significantly, solving more than 20,000 issues. The work has covered: