Commercial janitorial supplies are products and equipment used for cleaning and maintaining various types of facilities, such as offices, schools, hospitals, restaurants, and more. In addition, services in this area will also include washroom hygiene solutions
MRO CBRE Categories
Washroom Solutions
General MRO
Heavy Production
GPO Healthcare
These items typically support maintenance, repair and operational activities in the following areas - filtration equipment, HVAC support, industrial supplies, electrical supplies, pipes / valves / fittings, safety and building supplies
MRO products and services in this area includes bearings, belts, chains, couplings, gears, motors, etc. which are essential to maintaining the performance and efficiency of client machinery and equipment
Healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPOs) are the sourcing and purchasing partners to hospitals (98% of all U.S. Hospitals utilize a GPO). Benefits of GPO's include lower costs, improved efficiencies, enhanced quality and increased innovation
MRO Tail Spend
Tail spend is described as the high-volume and low-value transactions that take place within an organization – typically accounting for 80% of the supply base, 20% of overall spend, and largely limited to indirect spending
MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Operating supplies) in CBRE encompasses the following areas:
1. Category Definition
2. High Level Strategy / Objectives
3. Category Maturity
MRO-003 Ver 1.2 (Dec 23)
Confidential & Proprietary | 2023 CBRE Inc.
- Client value
- Cost management
- Diversity
- Innovation
- Performance management
- Supplier Partner selection
- T&C's
- Cost of acquisition
Maturity
Criteria
- Low / Medium
- Low / Medium
- Low / Medium
- Low / Medium
- Medium
- Medium
- Medium
- High
- Leverage scale of CBRE to deliver value to client
- Varied by region - unbundling opportunity / maturity
- Diverse could given more focus / weighting on sourcing events
- Innovation in some areas but not universal - best practice sharing
- Development proposed for some regions with metrics implementation
- Tools to drive spend to appropriate supplier partners
- MSA's / PSA's consistent approach / advice needed
- Catalogues and other automation including P2P solutions