Technical partnership
Fewer part numbers, less money on the shelf.
Technical help with specifying, standardising and sourcing, from people who have spent their careers around plant.
Buying the part is the easy bit. The value is in asking why you carry four brands of proximity sensor, whether that bearing keeps failing because of the bearing or because of the alignment, and what could be standardised across three sites. Our team works alongside your engineers on exactly those questions, and the answers usually take cost out of the operation as well as downtime.
On site
Technical support at your plant
Documented
Cost savings reported back
Ongoing
Reviews, not a one off audit
What changes for you
What this looks like on the floor.
Cost taken out, not quality
We identify equivalent products, better pack sizes and smarter specifications that reduce spend without dropping the standard of the part.
One part instead of five
Standardising across lines and sites shrinks the number of items you stock and the training your fitters need.
Failures that stop repeating
Where a component keeps failing we look at the application, not just the part, and recommend something that lasts.
Technical answers, quickly
Interchange questions, sizing checks and specification queries answered by people who know the products rather than a call centre script.
How it works
Getting it up
and work.
No two operations run the same way, so we start by understanding yours before we propose anything.
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01
Understand the plant
We spend time on site with your maintenance and production teams, looking at the assets, the failure history and the way parts are bought today.
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02
Analyse the spend and the stock
Purchase history and stock data are analysed to expose duplicate lines, low value order traffic, overstocked items and products that could be standardised.
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03
Propose the changes
You get a clear list of recommendations: what to standardise, what to stop stocking, what to substitute and what the change is worth.
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04
Implement together
We handle the trials, the technical checks with manufacturers, the labelling changes and the run down of old stock so nothing is stranded.
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05
Measure and keep going
Savings and stock reductions are reported back, and the review repeats so improvement is continuous rather than a one off project.
Scope
What is included.
- On-site technical support
- Product standardisation programmes
- Cost saving identification and reporting
- Stockholding reduction reviews
- Alternative and interchange recommendations
- Application and failure analysis support
- Procurement efficiency improvements
- Manufacturer technical liaison
- Training on new or substituted products
Proof
Where this has
already worked.
Food Manufacturing
Managed stores that stopped the daily consumable hunt
A Lancashire food manufacturer was losing engineering hours to missing consumables and duplicated stock. A managed stores, run and replenished by Rowlec, gave the team one reliable point of supply.
Plastics & Packaging
Bins refilled before anyone has to ask
A plastics processor was raising a constant stream of low value purchase orders for consumables. Vendor managed inventory moved replenishment to Rowlec and gave procurement its week back.
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