What are your options for dealing with excess or obsolete spare parts inventory? Typically there are four: 1. Do nothing 2. Write off and dump 3. Utilize at another site/location 4. Sell Option 1 achieves nothing, except setting a poor example on what the company expects of
Excess and Obsolete Inventory Disposal
Subject Area: Excess and Obsolete Inventory Disposal How many companies can you name that have a well-defined system for disposing of excess and obsolete spare parts inventory? Not many I bet. The problem is that typical spare parts management systems are designed to get stuff into the storeroom, not remove
Last Time Buy and Spare Parts Management (Video)
With all spare parts, at some point, you will have to make a decision about your last time buy. This need comes about in several different ways but the decision is still the same: What will be the final quantity of that part that you are going to purchase? Phillip
Spare Parts End of Life Planning (Video)
When you do Spare Parts End of Life planning you have to make a really important choice. If you consciously make that choice at the beginning of your end of life planning process, you’ll have a much better result. In this short video Phillip Slater explains. For access to this