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Inventory Management Training: Most of What You Learned Does Not Apply to Spare Parts

December 7 Phillip Slater

Subject Area: Inventory Management Training Have you, at some time, participated in inventory management training? Maybe at a conference, seminar, or a formal course? Have you noticed that applying inventory management training theory and techniques hasn’t helped you get the results you need with your spare parts inventory? This video

Inventory Management

Spare Parts Inventory Costs are Avoidable

November 23 Phillip Slater

Subject Area: Spare Parts Inventory Costs Concerned about the amount of money tied up in your spare parts inventory? Worried that there is no other way to manage this inventory type? Failure to understand the ‘rules’ around spare parts inventory leads to waste in spare parts inventory costs that are

Inventory Management

Spare Parts Inventory Characteristics

November 9 Phillip Slater

Spare Parts Inventory Characteristics

Subject Area: Spare Parts Inventory Characteristics Do you manage spare parts inventory? Are you aware that spare parts inventory has specific characteristics that differentiate it from other inventory types?     This short video is an edited extract from a live webinar titled: What Every Senior Manager and CFO Must

Inventory Management

The MRO Procurement Complexity Trap

October 19 Phillip Slater

Subject Area: MRO Procurement Complexity Do you wonder why MRO is such a hard category for procurement management? Do you find that your company constantly goes through cycles of adding and reducing MRO procurement resources? When companies manage indirect and MRO procurement in the same way that they manage direct

Procurement

The True Cost of Managing Indirect Procurement

October 7 Phillip Slater

Do you know the true cost of managing indirect procurement vs. the cost of managing direct materials procurement? In this short video from the Something to Think About series, Phillip Slater explains the true cost of managing indirect procurement.             Posted by: Phillip Slater  

Procurement

Spare Parts Management Guides

September 30 Phillip Slater

This page provides links to exclusive spare parts management guides only available at SparePartsKnowHow.com.  

Inventory Management, Inventory Optimization, Procurement, Storeroom Management

Spare Parts Inventory Optimization Software: Selection Guide

September 14 Phillip Slater

Subject Area: Spare Parts Inventory Optimization Software So, you’ve decided that you’ve had enough of the excess inventory, too many stock outs, and poor inventory service levels and want to purchase inventory optimization software to help optimize your holding levels. Great! No doubt by now you have done an online

Inventory Optimization

Spare Parts Inventory Webinar: 7 Things Every Senior Manager Must Know

September 10 Phillip Slater

spare parts management policies

For most asset-intensive companies, spare parts are not much thought about at all when in ample supply but become the number one focus for survival when not available. Unfortunately, many companies still view spare parts management as a low-level operational task. As a result, these companies: Waste millions of dollars

Inventory Management

Defining Best Practice Spare Parts Management

August 24 Phillip Slater

What is the best approach for defining best practice for spare parts management? We use a Stages of Excellence tool. This tool defines four levels of practice across 25 different aspects of spare parts management. Phillip Slater explains in this short video.             Posted by:

Best Practice

6 Common Mistakes Spare Parts Managers Make

August 18 Phillip Slater

inventory reduction metric

Subject Area: 6 Common Mistakes Spare Parts Managers Make Spare parts managers are perfect, right? If only that were true. Over the years I have met and worked with literally thousands of people engaged in spare parts inventory management. Repeatedly I see the same mistakes made over and over again.

Inventory Management

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