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Virtual Inventory is a digital solution for sustainable material management

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Benefits

From now on, operators can access high-quality data available in the Virtual Inventory to find all needed information about tools, spare parts and equipment already in stock from other operators, and buy or borrow necessary items.

  • CAPEX – Eliminating inventory levels, utilising excess materials, fast lead time

  • Safety stock – Via common approach to inventory

  • Environmental footprint – Efficient inventory and supply chain management

  • OPEX – Saving warehouse, maintenance costs

  • Production stops and time – Via increased availability and sharing opportunity

  • Waste – Better utilisation of stored spare parts and materials

About

The NCS operators focus on efficiency, standardisation and cost savings across all areas. To create a new and forwardlooking offshore oil and gas industry, companies unite to maximise the value and strengthen the competitiveness of the NCS and its representatives.

The challenges the operators face are similar and result in costly routines. A silo-based mindset, dispersed tools and lack of common standards for proper material management lead to radical excess of inventory, environmental and regulatory non-compliance, and over-expenditures.

Virtual Inventory is a single platform for material management aiming to strengthen collaboration in the NCS ecosystem and enable synergies between services.

FAQ

Support

Support
Monday – Friday (08:00 – 16:00)
+47 23 26 13 94 / support­@virtualinventory.no

  • Virtual Inventory is free to use for Offshore Norge’s member companies.

    • If you have a user profile in Virtual Inventory
      • Log into the system
      • Click on the big red “Critical” button in the top right corner
      • Fill out the request form
      • A request for materials will be immediately dispatched to representatives of all the collaborating operating companies on the NCS
    • If you don’t have a user profile in Virtual Inventory
      • Navigate to critical.virtualinventory.no/
      • Fill out the request form
      • A CMR handler from your company or from Offshore Norge will approve your request before it is dispatched to representatives of all the collaborating operating companies on the NCS
  • If your company is already registered to Collabor8 services:

    If your company is new to Collabor8 services:

  • Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft’s cloud product to enable users to enter any application or resource with their identity, regardless of where they are or what device they use. It enables Offshore Norge to deliver secure access services via the internet.

    Learn more from our step-by-step guide.

  • Yes, under certain conditions, single-sign on and autoprovisioning can be accommodated.

    Please contact support@virtualinventory to learn more.

  • Yes, there is a REST API.

    Technical documentation can be found here (requires self-registration and sign-up):

    https://portal-apis-test-vi.collabor8.no (Test)
    https://portal-apis-vi.collabor8.no (Production)

    If you want to use or explore our APIs, please fill in our order form and submit it to support@virtualinventory.no.

    Please also note that there are typical screening requirements for API access requests. These are:

    • The requestor is, or represents, an operator, contractor, supplier or broker using the service
    • The requestor is able to provide a reasonable justification for the intended use of the API