“ It ’ s important to us to put OEM manufacturer spare parts on the ships wherever we can to the maximum extent possible – there are plenty of third party parts manufactured under questionable circumstances and without certification , and we have to be very careful that what we get is what the manufacturer either recommends or provides themselves – Bob Sheen , Vice President of Operations at OSI
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One of those benefits is efficiency , enhanced by AVS SafeNet modular software suites licensed from AVS Nautical Systems . OSI currently licenses accounting and crew management modules for its ship and shore operations , along with maintenance modules aboard some of its ships , and most recently added purchasing and procurement modules to the repertoire .
“ We implemented this across the company and across the ships , so that we could manage all of our procurement with a single software package ,” says Bob Sheen , Vice President of Operations at OSI . “ That allows us in the office and the folks out on the ship to be aware of what ’ s being ordered , delivery dates , where they stand within our budgets and their own budgets , and it allows for visibility of what ’ s being ordered to senior management and to some of our customers .”
“ It ’ s important to us to put OEM manufacturer spare parts on the ships wherever we can to the maximum extent possible – there are plenty of third party parts manufactured under questionable circumstances and without certification , and we have to be very careful that what we get is what the manufacturer either recommends or provides themselves – Bob Sheen , Vice President of Operations at OSI
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