Indirect Materials and Spare Parts

MRO Data Cleansing and Standardization Services

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Our approach combines advanced automation with deep domain expertise to ensure your data becomes a reliable strategic asset.

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Technology Solutions

Why Indirect Materials and Spare Parts Matter?

Beyond direct materials maintenance, indirect materials and spare parts are essential components of effective MRO management. Moresco understands the unique challenges associated with these elements and offers MRO data cleansing services and MRO data governance solutions.

MDM Systems for MRO Data

Learn about cutting-edge Master Data Management (MDM) systems tailored specifically for MRO data, providing a centralized hub for data management.

Data Automation and Integration

Explore how automation and integration tools can streamline MRO data processes, reduce manual errors, and enhance overall efficiency.

What is MRO Data Cleansing?

MRO data cleansing is the process of correcting, standardizing, and enriching your material master records—making sure spare parts, consumables, and assets are represented consistently across your ERP and EAM systems. When executed well, MRO data cleansing and standardization services reduce inventory bloat, eliminate duplicate items, and support accurate maintenance planning.

A comprehensive master material cleansing process goes beyond just cleaning entries. It includes:

  • MRO data normalization to standardize units and formats

  • MRO data scrubbing to remove duplicate or outdated records

  • MRO data enrichment with OEM specs, attributes, and reference data

  • MRO material master data cleansing and classification using global taxonomies

MRO Data Cleansing Across Indirect Materials and Spare Parts

Indirect materials and spare parts are the backbone of uninterrupted operations in asset-intensive industries. However, poor data quality in this category—ranging from duplicates and inconsistent naming conventions to incomplete specifications—can lead to inventory bloating, procurement inefficiencies, and costly downtime.

Why Indirect Materials & Spare Parts Data Need Cleansing:
  • Multiple Naming Variants:
    The same part may be described differently across locations or systems, resulting in duplicate purchases and fragmented inventory records.

  • Missing Specifications & Manufacturer Details:
    Lack of structured information leads to incorrect usage, improper substitutions, and increased maintenance risks.

  • Obsolete or Inactive Items:
    Outdated entries clutter your system and hinder effective decision-making during planning, sourcing, and warehousing.

Why MRO Cleansing Matters?

Accurate MRO data is the backbone of efficient operations. At Moresco, we recognize the challenges posed by inaccurate, outdated, or redundant data in your MRO processes.

Without proper MRO cleansing, companies often face excess inventory, redundant part purchases, and costly downtime due to incorrect or unavailable parts. It also severely impacts the effectiveness of ERP and EAM systems like SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, or Maximo. Inaccurate data can lead to failed digital transformation initiatives, poor system adoption, and subpar decision-making. Worse still, in regulated industries, dirty data can pose serious compliance and safety risks if material classifications or specifications are incorrect or missing.

Enhance Accuracy Across the Spectrum:

Identify and rectify discrepancies, errors, and inconsistencies in your MRO data, ensuring that you can rely on it for informed decision-making.

Optimize Inventory Management:

Streamline your inventory by eliminating obsolete or duplicate entries, allowing you to maintain the right level of stock without unnecessary excess.

Improve Asset Lifecycle Management:

Ensure that your assets are well-maintained throughout their lifecycle by cleaning and organizing MRO data related to equipment, spare parts, and maintenance history.

The Technical Backbone of Operational Efficiency

In modern asset-intensive industries, Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) data sits at the confluence of procurement, supply chain, operations, and maintenance. Yet, the majority of organizations continue to struggle with unreliable and inconsistent MRO data that impedes performance at every level of the value chain. MRO data cleansing, when approached with technical rigor, becomes a strategic enabler for optimizing asset utilization, reducing inventory costs, and ensuring enterprise application success.

The Technical Anatomy of MRO Data Cleansing

1. Data Extraction and Profiling

The cleansing process begins with a multi-source data extraction from ERPs, CMMS, catalogs, spreadsheets, and procurement systems. Profiling tools evaluate:

  • Field-level completeness

  • Format inconsistencies

  • Attribute distribution

  • Missing values

  • Duplicates based on fuzzy logic and token matching

This stage builds a meta-understanding of your MRO master data, helping define rules for cleansing, normalization, and enrichment.


2. AI/NLP-Driven Classification and Parsing

Traditional rule-based methods often fail due to linguistic ambiguity and unstructured input. Moresco’ proprietary AutoClassifyAI engine uses:

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) to tokenize and interpret item descriptions

  • Machine Learning (ML) to learn from historical classification outcomes

  • Pattern recognition and vectorization to map unstructured text to structured taxonomies (UNSPSC, eCl@ss, custom schemas)

This enables accurate assignment of items to classes, subclasses, and attributes—even when input descriptions vary in language, syntax, and order.


3. Attribute Normalization and Enrichment

MRO items often lack critical technical specifications. Advanced cleansing involves:

  • Synonym and abbreviation expansion (e.g., “SS” to “Stainless Steel”)

  • Unit standardization (e.g., mm vs. inches, kg vs. lbs)

  • Value formatting (e.g., “Dia 1” to “1.00 mm Diameter”)

  • Cross-referencing external sources like OEM catalogs and procurement records

  • Contextual enrichment using AI to infer missing attributes from similar records

A data dictionary or template model per item class ensures that all items share a consistent attribute structure and value representation.


4. Duplicate Detection and Clustering

Deduplication is not just a string-matching exercise. Technical cleansing requires:

  • Fuzzy logic algorithms based on Levenshtein distance or Jaccard similarity

  • Semantic similarity models using vector embeddings of descriptions

  • Cluster-based detection, grouping variants of the same item across different sites/systems

  • Confidence scoring to recommend merge or flag records for manual validation

This enables removal or consolidation of duplicates while retaining relevant transactional history.


5. Governance and Workflow Automation

Once cleansed, the data must be governed to stay clean. Moresco’ Assure platform provides:

  • Role-based workflows for new item creation, change requests, and approvals

  • Audit trails and change logs for compliance

  • Pre-built integrations with ERP/EAM platforms (e.g., SAP MDG, Oracle PIM, Maximo)

  • Quality checks including field-level validation, classification Assure, and completeness scoring

Lifecycle governance ensures that newly created materials conform to established standards.

Table of Contents

Our Comprehensive Framework for MRO Data Enrichment

MRO data enrichment encompasses indirect materials and spare parts. Our commitment to robust MRO data cleansing includes:

Data Policies

Developing and enforcing policies that dictate how MRO data is collected, stored, and accessed.

Data Quality Management

Implementing ongoing processes to monitor and maintain the quality of MRO data, ensuring its reliability over time.

Access Controls

Restricting access to sensitive MRO data based on roles and responsibilities to prevent unauthorized usage

Audit Trails

Maintaining detailed audit trails that track changes and updates to MRO data, ensuring transparency and accountability.

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Our Approach

Our Approach to MRO Data Cleansing

Moresco employs cutting-edge tools and methodologies to cleanse your MRO data comprehensively,
covering indirect materials and spare parts. Our process includes:

Holistic Data Profiling

Understanding the current state of your MRO data to identify areas that require cleansing and improvement.

Integrated Data Validation

Verifying the accuracy and completeness of your MRO data through rigorous validation processes.

Comprehensive Deduplication

Removing duplicate entries to create a clean and streamlined MRO database.

Domain
Expertise

Standardizing data formats and structures to ensure consistency and compatibility across your systems.

Our MRO Data Cleansing Stack

Feature

Moresco

Traditional

Vendors

AI-powered MRO data classification via AutoEnrichAI

Support for global taxonomies: UNSPSC, eCl@ss, NIGP

⚠️ Limited

Multi-lingual cleansing (Arabic, Spanish, Chinese & more)

⚠️ English-centric

Real-time governance workflows

Seamless API integrations with ERP/EAM (SAP, Maximo, Oracle)

⚠️ Batch-based

Automated workflows from MRO data enrichment companies logic

⚠️ Manual/Spreadsheet-based

Governance-ready MRO data management services

MRO Data Cleansing

Establishing Control and Compliance

Our commitment to robust MRO data cleansing is driven by the need to:

Ensure Compliance:

 Adhere to industry regulations and standards by implementing MRO Data governance solutions that safeguard your MRO data.

Enhanced Data Security:

Implementing stringent security measures to protect all MRO data, including indirect materials and spare parts, ensuring confidentiality and Assure.

Facilitated Decision-Making:

 Establishing clear data ownership, accountability, and stewardship for the entire MRO ecosystem to empower teams with trustworthy information for effective decision-making.

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