MRO360 Case Study · Chemicals & Process Industries

Reducción de riesgos en el mantenimiento de plantas químicas

Working capital, downtime, and compliance in one deployment, across a multi-plant specialty chemicals network running lithium, bromine, and catalyst production lines.

Chemical plant maintenance and reliability operations
Puesta en marcha8–12 wksTime to first go-live, per site
Capital$10–40MWorking capital release range
Adquisiciones40–60%Emergency spend reduction
Tiempo de inactividad25–40%Unplanned downtime reduction
The Situation

Nine plants running independently, one intelligence layer to unify them

Spare parts, criticality, and maintenance planning had been managed independently across roughly 18 sites on a mix of SAP and legacy CMMS platforms, the pattern typical of gestión de piezas de recambio run plant by plant rather than as one network.
Working capital sat locked in duplicated inventory, emergency procurement carried a heavy cost premium, and safety-critical rotating equipment was exposed to stockout risk with no enterprise-wide visibility to catch it. MRO360 was deployed as an intelligence layer above the existing systems, with nothing replaced and no disruption to plant operations.

Why this matters at board level

In a continuous chemical process, a stockout on a certified part is not only a cost event. It is a potential safety, environmental, and regulatory event, carried independently at every plant in the network until now.

Headquarters
Charlotte, North Carolina
Employees
~8,000–8,500
Plant Network
~18 sites, 4 regions
Product Lines
Lithium, bromine, catalysts
Full Case Study

Get the complete de-risking breakdown

The download covers the full technical detail behind this deployment, module by module, along with the governance model that let it run without touching a single plant's ERP.

  • All nine Spare Parts Management modules, with the operational reality each one solved
  • The Work Order Management rollout and how it plugged into the existing modules
  • The complete before-and-after results table, plus what made adoption stick across 18 sites

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What Was Deployed

Nine Spare Parts Management modules, plus Work Order Management

All nine modules were deployed in full, none descoped, spanning visibility, criticality, working capital, and network-wide forecasting and planning.

Foundation

Visibility & Criticality

Finding any part across every plant, and scoring both equipment and parts by real criticidad, not spend alone.

Modules 1–3
Capital circulante

Obsolescence & Stock Health

Clearing dead stock and discontinued parts before they become write-offs or unplanned exposure.

Modules 4–5
Network Intelligence

Forecasting, Planning & Transfer

Forecasting demand against the real turnaround calendar, setting living reorder points, and moving surplus inventario between plants before a new purchase order is raised.

Modules 6–9
Separate SolutionGestión de órdenes de trabajo, an MRO360 work order management solution distinct from the nine modules above, was deployed alongside them to carry parts criticality and certification context through the full work order lifecycle, from creation to technician close-out.
Resultados

What changed in the first 12 months

En MRO360 deployment falls within the ranges documented for comparable chemicals and petrochemical customers.

ZonaResultado
Working capital in MRO inventory$10M to $40M released
Emergency procurementReduced 40% to 60%
Tiempos de inactividad imprevistos25% to 40% reduction on safety-critical equipment
Turnaround parts availability99%+ at mobilisation
Demand forecast accuracyAbove 95% once tuned to the plant calendar

Ranges reflect outcomes MRO360 documents for comparable chemicals deployments. The full breakdown, module by module, is in the downloadable case study.

Lo que aprenderás

En el estudio de caso completo

  • How MRO360 connected independently run plants across an 18-site chemicals network in 8 to 12 weeks per site, with no ERP replacement and no parallel migration.
  • How process-safety-weighted criticidad de los activos scoring flagged safety-critical SKUs on rotating equipment for certified-substitute-only resolution across every plant.
  • How dynamic reorder points replaced static, years-old SAP configurations simultaneously across all sites, eliminating both overstock and dangerous stock exposure on the same part numbers.
  • How inter-plant transfer intelligence reduced avoidable emergency procurement and increased visibility into repuestos esenciales already sitting in surplus elsewhere in the network.
  • How turnaround demand forecasting confirmed certified spares availability 6 to 8 weeks before mobilisation, closing the gap that reactive procurement strategies routinely miss.
  • How the model compounds accuracy over time: correlated failure pattern recognition, supplier lead time calibration, and turnaround forecast refinement with every operational cycle.
A quién va dirigido

Built for the teams who own MRO and reliability in chemicals

Vicepresidente de Cadena de Suministro y Fiabilidad

Accountable for network-wide emergency spend, turnaround readiness, and inventory performance across multiple chemical plants.

Responsables de mantenimiento, reparación y operaciones (MRO) y de compras

Responsible for spare parts availability, stocking policy, and certified-substitute compliance across a multi-site SAP environment.

Planificadores de mantenimiento y paradas técnicas

Managing work order backlogs across chemical plants and confirming certified parts availability before every planned turnaround.

Responsables de ERP y operaciones

Implementación de una capa de inteligencia sobre las instancias existentes de SAP sin necesidad de sustitución, migración ni interrupciones en los servicios informáticos.

Considering something similar for your own network?

This case study covered the six operational pressures behind one deployment, all nine Spare Parts Management modules, the Work Order Management rollout, and the complete before-and-after results. If you're weighing where your own plants stand before a decision like this, start with a benchmark.

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