Whether you are:
- new to spare parts management,
- trying to improve operational performance,
- or leading enterprise-wide inventory decisions,
SparePartsKnowHow provides a clear framework from foundational understanding through to advanced operational capability and strategic decision-making.
Our open access approach to knowledge allows you to explore nearly 400 expert-written articles and videos on spare parts inventory management, procurement, criticality, obsolescence, and more.
No email required. No data collection. Just pure know-how.
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If you want a structured understanding of how to make key spare parts decisions, you will want to move up to our Foundations Level.
Build a clear understanding of how spare parts inventory actually works.
Learn the fundamentals that most companies get wrong—and why standard inventory approaches don’t apply.
Our Foundation Playbook gives you the essential knowledge to manage spare parts effectively. It covers the core principles, terminology, and decision logic required before any optimization or policy work can succeed.
Foundations is for people who want to:
- understand how spare parts decisions actually work
- move beyond generic inventory theory
- build confidence in day-to-day inventory decisions
- establish a practical decision framework
- develop a common language for spare parts management
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Foundations explains the principles.
The Operations Playbook focuses on implementation — policies, optimization, governance, systems, and performance improvement.
Building on the foundation content this playbook helps you develop practical capability in specific areas of spare parts management.
Choose the topics that matter to you—such as optimization and policy development – build expertise where you need it.
Each capability area focuses on a key discipline and includes a targeted assessment. Complete one or more areas to demonstrate applied knowledge and earn a Capability Certificate.
Operations is for people who want to:
- improve inventory performance
- reduce excess and obsolete stock
- develop practical policies and governance
- improve stocking decisions
- optimize systems and processes
- create more consistent decision-making
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Operational improvement requires more than training alone.
The Practitioner Playbook provides the complete ecosystem of tools, templates, frameworks, references, and decision support resources used to apply these concepts in practice.
Access the full library of tools, articles, and resources to support real-world decisions.
Use it when you need to solve a problem, test an idea, or go deeper into a specific topic.
The Practitioner Playbook is designed for practitioners who need answers, not theory.
It provides on-demand access to proven approaches, detailed explanations, and practical guidance across all areas of spare parts management.
Practitioner is for people who want:
- ongoing decision support
- access to practical tools and frameworks
- deeper operational capability
- advanced implementation resources
- a complete spare parts reference ecosystem
Spare parts management is a team sport.
The best results occur when maintenance, procurement, planning, stores, and leadership operate from a shared understanding and common decision framework.
Give your team the tools, knowledge, and confidence they need to excel in spare parts inventory management with our live, online, interactive training program.
The Foundations for Teams Program is a team-based delivery of our Foundation Level content, designed to build a shared understanding of the fundamentals and drive better results across your organization.
Foundations for Team is for organizations that want to:
- align maintenance, procurement, stores, and leadership
- create a shared understanding of inventory decisions
- reduce friction between departments
- establish consistent approaches and language
- improve cross-functional decision-making
Denise Garner
Spare Parts Manager Customer Care Group
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Follow this link to see a list of some past and present member companies.
Online support provided by: Phillip Slater