Facilities, MRO, Energy, Travel and Fleet Toolkit — IFM Comparator, MRO Criticality, Fleet TCO Model

Description
The operational indirect categories — facilities, maintenance supplies, energy, travel and fleet — where the lever that works is rarely the price.

The MRO criticality assessment corrects the error that costs the most in this family. Criticality is scored on the consequence of failure and the replenishment lead time, with unit price deliberately excluded from the calculation. A forty-euro bearing with a fourteen-week lead time that stops a production line is a strategic item; classifying it by spend value puts it in the tail and guarantees the stockout.
The facilities comparator decides the delivery model on the numbers before any supplier is selected, and the soft services labour cost model lets you test a cleaning or security price on its cost stack rather than its headline rate.

Energy is a purchasing strategy question before it is a supplier question, and travel is the clearest case in all of indirect procurement where demand management beats rate negotiation. Both are covered as decisions, not as templates.

Who it is for: category managers who own one or more of these categories, facilities and operations managers who buy them without procurement support, and procurement leads assembling a first strategy across the operational tail.

What it is not: there are no energy price forecasts, no fleet residual value tables and no cleaning rate benchmarks, because all three are country-specific and out of date within months. Each model is built so that you enter current local figures and the comparison logic does the rest. The structure is what has value here, and the structure does not expire.