February 12, 2008

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Editor's Note An important measure of success in MRO purchasing is customer satisfaction. If MRO purchasing’s internal customers, plant managers and maintenance engineers, are not happy with a product or supplier selected by the sourcing team, they will not use it. They’ll buy another item or go to another supplier to get the job done. And purchasing’s strategy will fail miserably. The plant manager’s job, after all, is to get goods manufactured by the company out the door and to the customer on time. Steve DeFord, MRO commodity manager at Rockwell Collins, gets it. He sees purchasing as a service that exists for its customers. In addition to daily contact (his desk is a mere 25 feet from the shop floor), he uses regular meetings of the MRO commodity team “to take a pulse of what our customers are thinking, and learn whether solutions we put in place are working for them.”

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Drill/cutter
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