The ability for all equipment suppliers in your facility to be able to view each other's products or procedures without having access to multiple databases that can not communicate with one another has been great! Also it makes life easier when trying to figure out what supplies need replenishing during maintenance windows as we have more than 1 service provider at our site so knowing which supplier needs reordering will make my job much simpler. If you are looking into an open source solution
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