Professional Storeroom Layout Advantages
Martin Supply has the advantages of having a professional storeroom layout because for many manufacturing plants, the nicest thing you can say about their storeroom is that it's there. Read More
Managing Storeroom Projects with Outside Contractors
A storeroom inside of a manufacturing plant is a hub of activity. They support plant operations, maintenance, safety, and more, who all have competing needs and want things yesterday. Read More
How to Prepare for Physical Inventory
Physical Inventory is the process of counting an entire inventory in a concentrated period of time. Typically it is a 1-2 day process that shuts down operations while counts are conducted and verified. Read More
"How Your Local Distributor is Still Winning" featured on American Fastener Journal
The value of the distributor has been understood for quite some time. They have a sales force, local delivery, and stock inventory. They are a one-stop shop; an easy place for manufacturers who would have been overwhelmed if they had to find an OEM source for every item that came up for purchase. Read More
Cycle Counting Best Practices
Sound processes when it comes to Shipping and Receiving are critical, but the best way to follow up on those processes with accuracy is still cycle counting. Read More
Kitting Best Practices
The Kitting process is an easy way to get shifts started faster, jobs done on time, and ensuring a cleaner maintenance schedule. There is no excuse to have scheduled work that has insufficient parts available (baring machine down situations that require plans to change). Kitting is a process that involves a cross functional team of maintenance, purchasing, and operations, but the stockroom is the hub and can take the lead to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Here is the process for how Kitting works: Read More
The Importance of a Clean Storeroom
It may seem like it doesn’t matter what the storeroom looks like. After all, most people don’t really see it, and as long as we know what’s in there, who cares, right? Studies have shown that this is not the case. In fact, have a clean, well-organized storeroom is critical to maximizing the storeroom’s value. Read More
Increasing Maintenance Reliability through the Storeroom – KPI’s
The same data driven approach that works in production and maintenance can be applied to storerooms. Here are a few metrics to track to see if your storeroom management is enabling maintenance success: Fill Rate, Cycle Count Accuracy, Critical Spares, Bill of Materials (BOM). Read More
Industrial Vending Machines and Capabilities
Is there constantly a line outside of your stockroom? Do guys leave the production area for 20 minutes (or longer) to get a pair of gloves? Or is it common to see a group of people just hanging around the gate shooting the breeze? These are common problems that some of our larger customers have, and installing a vending solution is a great way to solve them Read More
Custom Tailored Solutions
At Martin Supply, we pride ourselves on providing “Custom Tailored Solutions” to each of our Customers. So what does that mean? It may not be immediately apparent, but it is important that we define Custom Tailored Solutions so that Customers understand our value proposition. Read More