Review Time Savings
Experience with the reviewing of E-SPIRs compared with the reviewing of
original paper SPIRs has shown overall time savings of up to 40 per cent for
buyers, maintenance engineers, and standardisers.
Many suppliers have prepared E-SPIRs for other customers
before, which increases the quality of the data and reduces the time spent
on chasing information.
Advice to purchase
Suppliers are obliged to list the spare parts for equipment purchased and to
make a recommendation instead of just sending spare part listings. This
helps to reduce the time needed to filter and process the spare parts list,
and then choose the parts needed for the project.
Prevents buying duplicate items
The part numbers, loaded in E-SPIR, of spare parts from main or
sub-suppliers are automatically checked against the spare parts quoted in
other E-SPIRs and against your stock inventory, which can be imported into
the E-SPIR program.
Data upload to ERP systems
At the end of the project the spare parts data has to be transferred to
operational system. The program has many facilities, such as adding Material
Groups and creating automatic spare parts descriptions for Equipment spare
parts listings in ERP systems.
Overall savings
Due to the controlled and efficient review process, the program provides you
with the time to deliver savings. Chasing E-SPIRs costs less time than
chasing missing information in paper SPIRs or spreadsheets.