What Our Customers Have to Say
"My experience in working with I.M.A. and the I.M.A. team was enlightening. The information I received was clear and concise and easy to understand. The amount of possible savings through consolidating parts, eliminating obsolescence and slow moving parts turned out to be much more than ever expected. The return on investment is immediate and well beyond the initial investment. We will continue to use I.M.A.'s services for our data cleansing and have passed along the information to the entire organization."
...Darren C. Mylie C.P.M., CPPM, CPP Supply Chain Manager,
(formerly) Engelhard Corporation, Peekskill,
(currently) Supply Chain Manager, Lapp USA
"I.M.A. played an important role assisting Tembec in standardizing and improving business processes, systems and naming nomenclature related to maintenance, stores inventory, and capital spare part stocking activities. I.M.A. has worked with Tembec to design and implement a process whereby rapid easy access to a single view of stores inventory is available. We can now identify opportunities to reduce stores inventory levels as well as report on vendor performance across all of our mills."
...Tim Brown, Director Information Technology & Systems,
Tembec Pulp & Paper & Chemical Group
"Project 5% reduction of capital spares, resulting from internal use of common Corporate Catalog. Stores inventory $ 100 million. Establishing Regional Central Warehouses. ROI $ 5 million."
... (the late) Frank Windle, Corporate Indus Project Manager,
Bowater, Greenville, South Carolina
"Completed Detailed Item Analysis. Have $ 25 million MRO/OEM stores inventory. 5% or $ 1,250,000 identified as surplus overstock. Establishing regional central warehouse for capital spares."
...Doug Miller, Material Supply Manager,
Bowater, Calhoun, Alabama
"Having listened to a presentation by Jim Calvert at a Wonderware Users Conference a few years ago, I decided at that time to make a note of what I had heard for future reference. I am pleased that I did because in my current role as someone who oversees Maintenance & Materials Management at a large Pulp Mill in Canada, I have had reason to use the services of I.M.A. Working with Jim and his staff was a very easy and comfortable experience for us, and the financial returns we expect to see as a result should provide a healthy ROI on the cost of the service provided. The overstock and slow moving parts identified should provide a very decent reduction in costs this year and in the years to come. Also of note is that as we now have data descriptions and parts information that are uniform and accurate, we are embarking upon a training program to allow our Technicians to more easily find parts and improve the efficiency of our planning, scheduling and maintenance efforts. We sadly had allowed ourselves to put the same kind of data into a number of different fields in our computerized maintenance software, and consequently made life more difficult for our technicians."
...Steve Kay, Maintenance & Materials Director,
(formerly) Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd.
(currently) Manager Production Maintenance,
Footner Forest Products Ltd.
