The management of materials and spare parts inventory is complicated by a combination of operational, supply chain, warehousing, and financial factors. This results in often competing demands between achieving availability goals and minimizing stock levels. SparePartsKnowHow.com helps you find answers to your most pressing spare parts inventory management issues. You no longer need to feel alone in trying to improve your inventory results. Nor do you need to create solutions based on trial and error.
A SparePartsKnowHow.com membership, available on an annual subscription basis, gives you 24/7 access to perhaps the largest single collection of online resources and information dedicated to spare parts inventory management and optimization. Plus, you get access to live online training events and one-to-one support.
Why You Should Join SparePartsKnowHow.com
If your work involves any aspect of managing spare parts then membership of SparePartsKnowHow.com will enable you to:
- Focus on achieving measurable results, using proven methods
- Boost the effectiveness of your inventory management and optimization initiatives through online support
- Enhance your professional development through online training events
- Reduce or eliminate the time wasted on trial and error approaches
- Get the answers you need, when you need them with 24/7 access to the complete repository
- Stay up-to-date with access to our latest thinking and resources
As a SparePartsKnowHow.com member you will have access to the entire archive without restriction.
I have estimated that in the first year alone my company will realize a corporate saving of over $250,000 by implementing several SparePartsKnowHow.com tips for improving the management of our spare parts.
Russ Thompson, MRO Inventory/Purchasing Manager, Idahoan Foods
What’s Included?
To assist you in sorting and accessing hundreds of items in various formats we divided SparePartsKnowHow.com into six key topic areas:
- Inventory Management and Optimization
- Policies and Procedures
- Metrics and Reporting
- Storeroom Management and Spare Parts Maintenance
- Continuous Improvement
- Implementation & Project Management.
Plus the site search function enables you to search the entire archive.
And because we all absorb information in different ways the material is provided in a range of formats – members can access all formats or just those that suit their learning style:
Do: attend live webinars
See: view video tutorials, presentations, and webinar recordings
Hear: listen to mp3 downloads
Read: access articles, white papers, ebooks, case studies, and storage guidelines
Plus members receive one-to-one support through our exclusive ‘Ask Phill’ feature.
Typical content includes:

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Who Developed all this Material?
SparePartsKnowHow.com is the product of a career spent in materials and spare parts management. With more than 25 years experience Phillip Slater has, as a practitioner or a consultant, helped rebuild and reorganize MRO stores and spares management systems for engineering based organizations in more than 17 countries. This work has resulted in better management and more reliable supply, plus saved hundreds of millions of dollars in expenditure on spare parts items.
For more than ten years Phillip has operated as an independent consultant and in that time has provided inventory management consulting, advice, and training to 318 companies, managing +1,000 storerooms and warehouses, holding more than $3.6bn of inventory. In addition to specific experience, ‘know-how’, and a track record of success Phillip brings a kit-bag of tools and techniques including insights from best practice research that has covered five continents. In addition, Phillip is the author of four books, including Smart Inventory Solutions: Improving the Management of Engineering Materials and Spare Parts and The Optimization Trap.
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Join Today
With materials and spare parts inventory, every day of delay in making improvements costs money. This could be through added downtime, lost sales, inefficiencies, or extra cash spent on items that won’t be used. Join today to start getting the information that you need to break that cycle.
A 12 month subscription to SparePartsKnowHow.com is just A$397.00 (currency converter). We also invite you to review our terms and conditions before signing up.
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