Cooling Costs, Heating Performance: Fabricated Metals' Success Story

This company is a global leader in designing, manufacturing, and testing of heat transfer products for a wide variety of applications and markets including: HVAC, Data Centers, Agricultural, Construction and Mining equipment to name a few.  A full-service provider of custom-designed heat exchangers for the residential, industrial, and commercial are conditioning, heating, ventilation, and refrigeration markets. 

To learn more about MSC’s BNA, our unbiased process, and data assessment of your indirect supply chain, designed to identify customized solutions to empower performance, generate savings and maximize profit potential, call us at 800.645.7270. 

Stock outs, Antiquated crib management, Excess inventory, 5S needed, unorganized hydraulics  

Conducted an extensive operational site assessment through MSC’s Business Needs Analysis (BNA) to identify opportunities to achieve this customer’s goals for an automated and strategic inventory management solution. 

Goals included:  

• Improved inventory management with consistent inventory levels  

• Eliminate stockouts 

• Increase crib productivity and improve crib processes 

• Establish 5S methodology throughout the plant  

• Consumption reduction & better reporting 

Vending, VMI, Crib Management, Park Hydraulics and mscdirect.com  

• ControlPoint® Vending & Vendor Managed Inventory  

• Installed ControlPoint® Cribware software for full inventory visibility and organization 

• Implemented Parker Hydraulics solution to manage cutter, crimper, and organize fittings  

• Simplified ordering by using mscdirect.com 

• Customized data analytics and reporting dashboards  

• MSC helped complete 5S projects  

Reduction of inventory consumption & labor savings  

• 20% reduction of inventory consumption  

• 20% reduction of inventory through vending 

• 20 hours a week in labor savings with ControlPoint crib and MSCdirct.com features 

• Reduction in total cost of ownership   

Established a cadence of quarterly Customer Improvement Reviews (CIR) at which MSC and the customer collectively review a “scorecard” to evaluate progress on identified goals and look for improvement opportunities. In addition, we continue to work with our specialist teams and the customer to identify improvement initiatives to keep their team at their highest levels of productivity.