What is Digital Materials Management?

Digital materials management removes historical paper-based systems. It enables an organization to have a single source online that shows an accurate picture of the availability and delivery of critical project items—getting the right things to the right place at the right time.

How are QR Codes used to manage materials?

QR (Quick Response) codes hold more data than barcodes, making them perfect for digitalizing materials management for complex projects. While some systems demand a lot of manual data entry, QR codes automate this process.

How is the materials process made intelligent with software?

Software enables the client to plan warehouse operations around impending projects, from storage planning to resource deployment, using work-front planning and real-time warehouse inventory information to stay on target. The warehouse staff receive clear instructions from handheld devices utilizing a barcode system, which eliminates manual paper-based operations.

Will using MODS software reduce my materials management costs?

The use of handheld devices streamlines the stock-picking process by reducing the picking failure rate. It also provides improvements in both inventory visibility and redundant stockpiling, leading to reduced costs. Used as a full component of MODS Connect provides even greater efficiencies and savings.

Can I improve warehouse operations with software?

Warehouse digitization with the right software partner has become the key for EPC businesses to improve their bottom-line and maintain a competitive edge. A paperless, automated warehouse drives efficiencies, visibility, and accuracy, maximizing labor productivity while minimizing costs.

Materials Management Software

Materials management and tracking software for EPC businesses and operators of industrial assets. Effective inventory control for use during industrial construction or maintenance projects of any size.

Effective supply-chain management ensures that materials are always at the right place and at the right time. Our materials management software gives the ability to premeditate bottlenecks, avoiding delays so you can keep projects on time and on budget.

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MODS Connect Materials Manager is a comprehensive inventory solution that enables real-time tracking of your materials throughout their transformation value chain, from fabrication through to installation. The cloud-based database is accessible from anywhere and at anytime, ensuring access to real-time status for planning purposes. Full material archives provide transparency and accountability.

Materials management challenges

Current processes that rely on paper-based printouts and spreadsheets involve high manual intervention levels that inevitably lead to errors, causing losses, mistakes and delays. Our Materials Manager software manages and monitors materials from start to finish so that you can push project plans forward and stay on track.

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Digitize your materials management

Digital transformation in the construction, maintenance and upgrades of industrial assets is becoming a non-negotiable for EPC businesses and operators to remain competitive. Materials management in construction processes is a notorious pinch point that compromises project outcomes.

With digital materials management, unanticipated delays, human errors and lack of accountability are a thing of the past. Reclaim transparency of your inventory throughout the value-chain from fabrication through to installation with real-time, cloud-based materials management that is accurate, comprehensive and readily accessible.

Connect inventory for global collaboration

Staying connected in a geographically dispersed business with a remote or home-based workforce requires information to be available and up to date, immediately, from any location.

With MODS Connect Materials Manager software, you can conduct synchronized inventory management online from any location, anytime, saving valuable project time and overall costs.

Real-time updates regardless of project location

MODS Connect Materials Manager was developed with capabilities to work on mobile devices as well as in remote physical locations, including offshore. Live data is saved in a centralized database, assuring that access to review your information is instant and accurate.

Technology drives focus on materials

MODS Connect Materials Management advances your DX so that you can be more competitive. With our software, you can quickly create, adjust and manage your warehouse inventories to align with your work-front planning while executing projects. MODS offers a multi-user, online environment with a flexible, user-friendly web and mobile interface, offering different administrative privileges across the organization.

Our focused materials management system brings everything together through modern processes and QR / Barcode tracking technology. MODS Connect Materials Manager is the complete inventory management solution for the construction, maintenance and upgrades of industrial assets. It is the perfect fit for EPC business and operators seeking to avoid bottlenecks through the digital transfer of materials management information.

The materials-fabrication interlink

MODS Connect Materials Manager software solution integrates with your existing systems as well as with the complete MODS Connect software suite, designed to advance the digital transformation of industrial construction, upgrades and maintenance projects.

A notable benefit of this compatibility is the inventory management interlink with our digital Fabrication solution, to provide comprehensive materials control from the beginning. This potent combination of MODS Connect Materials Manager with MODS Connect Fabrication ensures that your materials are at the right place and at the right time.

Have confidence in the transparency and accountability of your inventory, avoiding bottlenecks and delays. MODS Connect digital materials solutions ensure that your sequential activities can always carry out as planned.

3D visualization with Reality

MODS Connect Reality module offers real-time 3D visualization and progress status of onsite construction execution, maintenance and upgrades of industrial assets.

This gives EPC groups, contractors and operators a comprehensive look at the asset. On-the-ground status and demands are clear, enhancing management and oversight of your industrial asset.

Benefits of using MODS

Material Management solution

Clearer, more accurate reporting
Reduced administrative burden
Fewer business disruptions
Greater regulatory compliance
Enhanced productivity
Better project quality
Increased project ROI
Project Schedule on time

"We started using MODS software for controlling materials in 2012. Before using MODS, we used Excel in managing our inventory, a complicated warehouse inventory process that could often be very time consuming. We partnered with MODS to start our digital transformation and have used the system to manage our project's inventory ever since. MODS Connect Materials Manager has great functionality that helps us better plan, receive, distribute, and track in real-time. A great feature we like is the reporting, which gives us insight into how materials are being aligned with the work fronts we have planned within a specific period. The MODS team has also been invaluable at evolving their system regularly to adapt to the ever-changing needs of their customers, adding new and efficient elements to help solve bottlenecks and make the experience better.”

Dwain Guidroz

Senior Project Manager

We would love to talk to you about our digital materials management solution

MODS offers a materials solution which is part of the MODS Connect suite, which drives automation in your warehouse inventory processes, helping you better align with construction phases within your projects. MODS Connect Materials Manager solution gives you the ability to link with third-party systems for inventory population, including receiving, purchasing and invoicing. You will have live access to critical information that, if not managed or updated correctly, could delay or increase the budget of scheduled works.

Contact the MODS team to arrange a presentation on how MODS Connect can help your organisation.

As a cloud-based materials management system, MODS Connect provides an affordable and easily adoptable solution utilizing automation. The system is designed to enable users to interact directly with the online database to efficiently track each material to reduce costs and institutionalize Operational Excellence in organizations.

The system provides cost savings you cannot ignore, delivering transparency and accountability in pursuit of Operational Excellence through the following:

Materials tracking
Materials allocation
Global collaboration
Dependable traceability
Remote work enablement
Tracking technology
Efficiently handled returns

digitalize-fabrication

3rd party system integration (purchasing) and auto-population of materials from existing ERP systems
Delivery tracking and advance delivery notification
Access control
Asset tagging
Asset photo management
Automatic report generation
Availability Indicator
Barcode / QR - generation & scanning
Complete management for requisitions
Container and equipment management

Links bulk purchase orders with MODS Connect Work Packs
Multi-departmental / and multi-project capabilities
Perform materials management by work pack / job card
Photographic functionality for easy identification
Document management
Manifest creation
Mobile / handheld app
Real-time reporting
Receiving

Requisition management
Rentals cost management
Schedule and communicate the readiness of materials
Shipping management
Space management & visualization
Stock and spares’ management
Transfer tools & materials
Warehouse management and restrictions
Weight reports
Data import/export

USE THE FULL CONNECT SUITE FOR HIGHER ROI

MODS Connect Materials Manager

MODS Connect is the overarching suite of software specially build for the challenges faced by EPC groups and operators on the construction, maintenance and upgrades of industrial assets. As part of the MODS Connect software group, Materials Manager completes this integrated offering, removing any doubt of data silos.

However, Materials Manager also functions as a stand-alone software that can integrate with your existing systems. For a significant return on investment, we recommend looking at the full MODS Connect offering for industrial upgrades and maintenance projects, regardless of size. Materials Manager has played a substantial part in shutdowns and turnarounds with our customers receiving items at the right time and the right place to ensure schedules remain on time and, in many cases, reduced.