The purchasing department at Engie Electrabel's nuclear plants faced a growing volume of complex, urgent material requests — with a shortage of skilled people to handle them. TOC-based material management, interfaced with SAP, brought that back under control.
Material requests at the purchasing department were growing in both volume and complexity, while the number of skilled people available to process them wasn't. Urgent requests competed for the same limited attention, and technicians often waited on information that existed somewhere in the system — just not where they could find it.
Bureau Léonard implemented TOC-based material management interfaced directly with Engie Electrabel's existing SAP system: stock optimization to hold the right material without overstocking, kanban-style priority steering to keep urgent requests visible, and obsolescence alerts to catch stock that was quietly going stale.
Material flows are now under control without additional recruitment — technicians find the information they need without waiting on other services, even as request volume and complexity keep growing.
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