Ask any maintenance manager what keeps them up at night, and the answer rarely has anything to do with the equipment itself. It's the parts. Specifically, it's the part that isn't on the shelf when the machine goes down. MRO sourcing — the process of finding, qualifying, and procuring maintenance, repair, and operations components — sounds administrative on paper. In practice, it's one of the more strategically important functions in a plant, because it sits at the intersecti