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Excess Spare Parts Inventories: a Symptom or the Problem?

December 21 Phillip Slater

Subject Area: Excess Spare Parts Inventories Concerned about the excess spare parts inventories that your company has? Do you think that this is the problem that needs to be solved? The reality is that excess inventory is a symptom, not the problem. The ‘problem’ is something else in your spare

Inventory Management

Slow Moving Spare Parts Inventory: You Will Need to Hold Items That Will Not Move

December 14 Phillip Slater

Subject Area: Slow Moving Spare Parts Inventory Concerned about the number of slowing moving items in your spare parts inventory? Concerned that these are a sign of wasted money and poor inventory management? The reality is that with spare parts inventory you will need to hold items that will not

Inventory Management inventory optimization, mro, slow moving, spare parts inventory

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

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 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

6 Common Mistakes Spare Parts Managers Make

August 18 Phillip Slater

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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

A Specific Multi-National Company (MNC) Problem: A Team Approach to Spare Parts Inventory Management

July 6 Phillip Slater

Subject Area: A Team Approach to Spare Parts Inventory Management Most of my career has been spent working with multi-national companies (MNCs). Sometimes these companies have operations in just a couple of countries. Sometimes they have hundreds of locations around the world. One thing they usually have in common is

Inventory Management

How to Select the Right Vendor for the Services That You Need

June 22 Phillip Slater

Recently I presented a webinar that addressed the pros and cons of outsourcing the procurement of MRO. What we didn’t address was the issue of selecting the right provider. This issue doesn’t just impact procurement outsourcing but ANY provider of services. Here are links to two articles that address how

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