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Phillip Slater Wins National Logistics Leadership Award

September 28 spkhadmin

Leadership in Logistics Education Award In 2012 the Logistics Association of Australia announced Phillip Slater as that year’s winner of the Kim Rothwell Leadership in Logistics Education Award.  Phillip Slater is a spare parts management specialist, consultant, author, and Founder of SparePartsKnowHow.com.  Kim Rothwell, is a life member of the

Filed Under: Ask Phill, Best Practice, Continuous Improvement, Implementation, Inventory Management, Inventory Optimization, Metrics and Reporting, Policies and Procedures, Storeroom Management

Why MRO and Spare Parts Inventory Management Is Different to Other Inventory

September 11 spkhadmin

Subject Area: MRO and Spare Parts Inventory MRO and spare parts inventory management is different so is it any wonder why you can’t seem to get your MRO and spare parts inventory consistently under control while other inventory types appear to be well managed? Are you challenged by the spare

Filed Under: Comp, Inventory Management

Excess Spare Parts Inventory: Deal With It

August 23 spkhadmin

One of the issues that arise with spare parts management in every industry is the management of excess inventory.  This is particularly so with engineering spares, used to provide operational support to maintenance and production.  With these spare parts there is often a high number of items that are used

Filed Under: Inventory Management, Policies and Procedures

How Squirrel Stores Wreck Your Data

July 9 spkhadmin

Recently I wrote about the two major storeroom activities that prevent your issues data from accurately representing actual usage.  The first of these was the returns-to-store process and you will recall that, despite the impact on your data, if managed well this process can actually help you improve your reliability. 

Filed Under: Inventory Management, Storeroom Management

The Two Whys of Spare Parts Inventory Management

May 16 spkhadmin

The Toyota Production System is seen by many as the origin of Lean Manufacturing – an approach to operations management that eliminates waste and as the name suggests aims to operate as lean as possible.  According to Taiicho Ohno, the creator of the system, the approach was built upon a

Filed Under: Best Practice, Inventory Management

The Truth About Long Supply Chains

May 16 spkhadmin

Recently I visited a company located near Hobart, in Tasmania. Hobart is the southern most capital city in Australia and possibly the world.  One of the interesting things about Hobart (from a spare parts inventory perspective) is that it is a long way away from many industrial centres that supply

Filed Under: Inventory Management

Spare Parts Criticality

May 3 spkhadmin

Spare Parts Criticality

How do you determine spare parts criticality? Most companies don’t really understand criticality and see it as a single dimension issue. But that is just not right.           For access to this post, and all of our content, join using the button below. If you are

Filed Under: Inventory Management, Policies and Procedures

Calculating Spare Parts Stock Levels

May 14 spkhadmin

Do you hold the right levels of spare parts? Have you done the right analysis? These are two questions that keep maintenance and reliability engineers awake at night. Determining which approach to use for calculating reorder points and reorder quantities is the easy part of this dilemma. The hard part

Filed Under: Inventory Management

More Truth About Inventory Management Theory

March 23 spkhadmin

In a previous post we demonstrated that the classic ‘saw tooth’ diagram associated with inventory management and control is sometimes not at all representative of reality for engineering materials and spare parts. In this post, I am going to expand on this to show just how much it can cost

Filed Under: Continuous Improvement, Inventory Management

The Truth About Inventory Management Theory

March 1 spkhadmin

Subject Area: Spare Parts Inventory Management Theory

Filed Under: Comp, Inventory Management

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