Acuity

Acuity is MDSi's comprehensive SaaS application for asset management, deployment management, and inventory visibility. The solution maximizes our customers' return on technology investment through best-in-class business intelligence, complete asset lifecycle management, spare inventory optimization, and supply chain planning for improved utilization of capital deployment assets. Acuity helps our customers streamline operations to run more efficient, sustainable, and profitable businesses.

Functionality

Inventory Management & Visibility
Segregate Inventory, Permissions, and Reporting by Business Unit
Project / Engineering Planning & Forecasting
Capital Project Deployment Management
Install Location Tracking
Spares / Outage Management
Equipment Returns Management
License, Subscriptions, and Maintenance Management
Business Intelligence Dashboards & Reporting
API / Web Services for Transaction Processing and Inquiry

Acuity Portal

Acuity SaaS Asset Management
Visibility, Delivery, Analytics

Capital Project Deployment
- Configuration Management
- Total Project Deployment, Multiple Install Locations
- Consumption Prioritization (Redeploy, Certified Reconditioned, New)
Spares Management
- Rush (4 hour), Next Flight Out (NFO), Next Business Day
- Defective Return, RMA Management
- OEM Maintenance Support, Outage Management
Equipment Returns
- Decommissions, Equipment Harvesting Management
- Disposition Triage Logic, Receiving Rules
- Data Sanitization, Erasure
- Certificate of Destruction for Recycled Equipment
Business Intelligence
- Consumption Analytics
- Vendor Lead Time
- Spares Modeling
- Capital Cost Avoidance Analysis
- License, Subscription, Maintenance Management

Inventory and asset management within large, multi-national corporations quickly becomes a very complex and costly problem. The core issue is the lack of centralized visibility of available hardware to meet the needs of engineers and IT personnel, as many projects and programs are managed in a silo, leading to excess hardware and increasing capital.

Benefits

Analytics
- Spares Usage Analytics
  - By Item and Geography
- Defective Returns Analytics
  - Outstanding Defective Returns
  - Average Days Outstanding
  - Open RMAs
- Spares Inventory Analysis
  - Spares by Location by Item
  - Sparing Rules by Item
Intelligence

Our Business Intelligence and analytics help drive cost avoidance by analyzing/providing
- Consumption trends to make purchase and stocking recommendations
- Outages to make spares stocking recommendations
- Dashboards to enable governance of supply chain processes
- Capital cost avoidance analytics
- Recommendations for reuse or retirement of asset
- Visibility to assets in the various states of their lifecycle
Consumption Analysis

Consumption Analysis BI and lead time feature
- Usage trends for supply forecasting
- Purchase lead-time analysis
- Estimated ship dates for capital deployments

The Acuity platform utilizes existing, new, and re-deployable inventory and preferred supplier base to locate the lowest cost solution that easily integrates with existing ERP systems, resulting in minimal impact and maximum benefit for global supply chains.