Inventory represents a large portion of capital expenditure for companies in Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Energy sectors. While the opportunity for cutting costs and improving overall operational effectiveness is huge, companies often find it difficult to execute such effort. The challenge is how to standardize materials data, cataloguing, reduce wasted time for parts searching and reduce inventory holdings. eCAT enables: • Structured, accurate and complete materials data consistently throughout the organization • Control of data governance • Analysis for performance improvements in supplier management, inventory optimization, operational risk, product quality and asset availability • Providing full item specification and supporting on search & create item codes process

Value Proposition

eCAT helps organization to standardize and optimise foundation of inventory data and material to maximize Maximo EAM’s inventory management module. Help Maximo’s clients perform best practices in inventory control, centralise business processes and improve procurement, maintenance, operational performance. Key feature: – eCAT is inventory cataloguing solution embedded inside Maximo. – Fully compatible and integrated with Maximo functionalities: Item Master, Companies, Inventory, Classifications, Assets/Spare-part

IBM Solutions Used

IBM Enterprise Asset Management