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Developing Your Own Optimization Software

October 5 Phillip Slater

Subject Area: Developing Your Own Optimization Software

Developing Your Own Optimization SoftwareTraps to Avoid: Lesson 5

Avoid the temptation of developing your own optimization software.

Sometimes when companies can’t find the ‘perfect fit’ from a vendor they think that they should spend their time developing your own optimization software using MS Excel or something similar.

Software development may look simple from the outside but the vendors in this area have spent many years and who knows how much money developing their product.

Plus, their software has been applied (from your perspective that means tested) by many other companies before you. The feedback from this has been used to refine their products.

The idea that a company can develop a solution that is better and cheaper than an off-the-shelf solution is just plain wrong.

This spare parts inventory optimization trap is explained in this short video, an edited extract from a live webinar titled: Selecting the Right Spare Parts Inventory Optimization Software for Your Company

Run time: 2:41


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Filed Under: Inventory Optimization Tagged With: inventory optimization, mro, software, spare parts

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