IHS Releases Struxure 6.1 for MRO Supply Chain Management

HIS, Englewood, Colo., USA, has released IHS StruxureTM 6.1 software for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supply chain management. The web-based software application is for managing MRO catalogs while providing the foundation for sustained MRO data governance across a customer's enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM), or computerized maintenance management systems investments.

Struxure 6.1 provides excellent global language support, reporting, and analytics, while boosting user performance, product usability, and the breadth of MRO content capabilities. It includes the following keynote system enhancements:

Enhanced seamless multilingual capabilities with advanced searching and translation
Connections to multiple ERP/EAM systems by language and/or item criteria
Redesigned user interface preview with an all-new Login Screen and Menu for streamlining Struxure's ease of use
Simplified multilingual data maintenance and review with language/system selection drop-down, enabling users to instantaneously change interface and data to the selected language or system
Improved workflow capabilities.

The new software is the bedrock for enforcing the rules and best practices necessary for creating and maintaining standardized, comprehensive MRO item descriptions.

At the core of the Struxure application is the IHS Standard Modifier DictionaryTM (SMD), a classification schema that delivers industry-aligned templates with consistent, repeatable rules designed specifically for characterizing MRO master data. Together, Struxure and SMD seamlessly integrate into multiple enterprise systems to enable a unified information strategy and dynamically synchronize MRO data. This approach allows for real-time visibility into MRO inventory and greater control over maintenance, operations, supply chain, and procurement effectiveness.

More information about the IHS MRO solutions is available online.

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