IMPA Marine Store guide
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The Marine Stores Guide (MSG) first appeared in 1978 as a printed book and is widely considered to be the world’s leading reference source for maritime purchasing and supply.
More than 110,000 copies of the guide are in circulation and are used on-board ships as well as in offices throughout the world.
Many of the world’s leading purchasers such as ship managers and owners use the book every day as the essential source of marine products.
The Guide helps purchasers and suppliers match and supply goods easily by using a unique six digit code to identify products exactly to an individual description. The codes have remained consistent and unchanged in almost 40 years. The Guide has been comprehensively expanded to list more than 50,000 codes from tableware and galley utensils to welding equipment and marine coatings.
The ever-growing content has been coupled with advances in technology that have seen many companies migrating their purchasing facilities to ecommerce trading platforms.
As such, the Marine Stores Guide Data Licence continues to grow in both reach and application, allowing users to specify products quickly and effectively using unique data imported into their purchasing systems.
With illustrations, specifications, product information and comparison tables for major manufacturers, the Marine Stores Guide Seventh edition provides an invaluable reference for those involved in the commercial shipping industry.
The Marine Stores Guide Data has recently become more significant in value to ship owners and operators as well as ship suppliers. With the increasing adoption of electronic ship supply management (ecommerce), the Marine Stores Guide has become especially useful for the specification of stores items in electronic trading. If the purchaser includes the IMPA code (already held in his purchasing system) for the required items in his electronic RFQ or Purchase Order, the supplier can read this IMPA code directly into his sales order system, matching it to the appropriate stock item.
The use of the IMPA Marine Stores Guide in ecommerce has as advantage over the printed Guide, as the printed version is only updated once every 5 years. In the intervening period, certain items may become obsolete and others may need to be added to the Guide. IMPA has recognised this, and now provides updates to the catalogue on a six-monthly cycle. These updates are only available in electronic form. The latest version of the MSG Data includes more than 50,000 codes.
To use the IMPA Marine Stores Guide in electronic form (to import the code data into your purchasing or sales order system), you will need to purchase an IMPA Marine Stores Guide Data Licence.