Inventory Management Services, Inc
If you always do what you always done, You’ll always get what you’ve always got!

— AFE CPPM Review Manual

Storeroom Set Up Services

This next step on the journey describes the road to take towards getting a World-Class storeroom.  IMS’s experienced and professional organizing expertise specializes in the design, layout, relocation, setup, consolidating and organizing, physical inventory and bar code labeling of spare parts storerooms and tool cribs.

IMS provides “hands-on/hands-dirty” setup services to:
Design and set up existing part storage areas to maximize use of available space.
Utilize the most effective method for spare part and tool storage.
Sort parts and tools generically and by specific machine or process.
Clean, consolidate and organize, inventory and count, and bar code label spare parts and tools.
Implement a simple part-numbering and part-location method.
Deliver parts inventory data on an Excel spreadsheet for conversion to client CMMS.
Produce and apply bar code labels.
Provide a proposal outlining the time, events and costs needed for a turnkey implementation.
Provide recommendations on a bar code capable CMMS based on maintenance and storeroom needs.
Provide training on how to operate a cost-efficient, well-run storeroom.

A well-organized storeroom provides the maintenance department the support it needs to keep production machinery in the best possible operating condition.  Parts are available, they can be located quickly, and they can be reordered in a timely manner.  Repairs are made quickly and efficiently, and the company remains competitive and successful in the global economy.