Customer Value Case · Oil & Gas

From Insight to Executed Value

How a major North American energy operator built the case to turn MRO inventory into working capital, an intelligence layer deployed as a governed layer on the existing ERP, proven pilot-first on the operator's own numbers.

Energy operator MRO inventory and asset reliability operations
Recurring Benefit~12×Annual benefit vs. annual subscription
Payback<6 moOn recurring benefit alone
Reduction Target~5%Conservative, vs. 30–40% benchmarks
Working Capital8-figureOne-time release identified
About the Client

An estate that grew through acquisition, and the visibility gap that came with it

Industry
Energy, asset-intensive process operations
Scope
Enterprise-wide, multi-site MRO estate
Solution
Verdantis MRO360
MRO Inventory
Nine-figure spare-parts inventory
ERP System
Existing enterprise ERP, no replacement
Deployment
Pilot-first, with a decision gate before rollout

A large North American energy operator running an asset-intensive, multi-site network, with hundreds of thousands of MRO SKUs, a nine-figure spare-parts inventory, and a mature reliability organisation.
Like many operators of its scale, its estate had grown through acquisitions, bringing overlapping stock, duplicated part records, and inconsistent stocking rules across sites. For operators facing this pattern, how spare parts inventory is managed across distributed oil and gas sites determines whether emergency freight becomes the default procurement channel.

The company was not short on analytics. Its in-house tooling reliably identified over-stocked items and dormant stock. What it lacked was a way to turn thousands of identified opportunities into governed, completed action across dozens of sites, without adding headcount, and a way to prove the result.
MRO360 was proposed as a governed intelligence layer on the operator's existing ERP, reading the records already there, generating recommendations across the full estate, and writing back only after human sign-off. The engagement was structured to prove value before commitment: a time-boxed pilot with agreed success criteria, and a defined decision gate before any estate-wide rollout.

All figures in this case study are expressed as ratios and ranges to protect the customer's confidentiality. The underlying business case was built entirely on the customer's own audited and system records, not vendor benchmarks.

The Challenge

Analytics that identify, but don't execute

This was not a company that lacked analytics. The gap wasn't insight, it was execution at estate scale, and the ability to prove it.

  • Over-max stock kept re-accumulating faster than periodic manual reviews could work it down.
  • Surplus at one site was re-purchased at another, because cross-site equivalence wasn't visible at the moment of buying.
  • Duplicate part records, the same item under different codes, hid redeployment opportunities across the estate.
  • No continuous measurement baseline existed, so no one could prove what any initiative had actually saved.
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The download covers the full value-driver model, the module-by-module detail behind each result, and why this business case held up under finance scrutiny.

  • The five modules behind the value drivers, and exactly what changed in this engagement
  • How the ~5% reduction target and 8-figure release were built entirely on the customer's own audited data
  • Why the case was conservative by construction, and de-risked with a pilot-first, human-in-the-loop structure

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What You'll Learn

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  • How a governed intelligence layer read what was already in the existing ERP and generated recommendations across the full estate, with every write-back human-approved and audit-trailed.
  • How Cross-Enterprise Transfer Intelligence caught over-max stock as it formed and presented a buy-versus-transfer decision at the moment of purchase, closing the gap where surplus at one site kept getting re-purchased at another.
  • How Obsolescence Check isolated the non-moving tail across an acquisition-grown estate, turning dormant stock into the largest single one-time release rather than a standing balance.
  • How Search and Visibility matched the same part recorded under different codes across sites, closing a gap in how inventory was tracked network-wide that had let identical stock hide under acquisition-era naming inconsistencies.
  • How dynamic reorder points were recomputed for every SKU from actual demand, lead time and criticality, without touching critical-spare protection.
  • Why the recurring benefit, built from carrying-cost savings and avoided purchases, functions as a durable annuity rather than a one-off clean-up, a reduction the operator can hold and repeat year after year.
Who This Is For

Built for the teams who own MRO, reliability, and the business case behind it

VP Supply Chain & Reliability

Accountable for inventory performance across an estate that grew through acquisition, with no consolidated visibility.

MRO & Procurement Leaders

Sitting on analytics that identify savings, but need a way to execute and prove them at estate scale.

Finance & FP&A Leaders

Evaluating a business case built on the company's own audited figures, conservative by construction, not vendor benchmarks.

ERP & IT Leaders

Requiring a governed layer with no rip-and-replace, human-in-the-loop approval, and independent security certification.

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