In October 2011 Russell Thompson, Corporate MRO/Purchasing Manager at Idahoan Foods in the USA joined SparePartsKnowHow.com as a Member. In the time since then Mr. Thompson has used the resources at SparePartsKnowHow.com to achieve a 50% spare parts inventory reduction. In this extract from a recent interview he tells us how. Idahoan Foods is […]
Inventory Reduction Action #1: Have Someone Else Hold and/or Pay For Inventory
The best way to reduce the investment in inventory is to eliminate the investment altogether. This inventory reduction action can be achieved without risk and with full access to the inventory by having someone else hold and/or pay for the inventory. This approach, sometimes known as consignment stocking, transfers both the ownership and the management […]
Identifying Best Practice Inventory Management
So you want to go down the route of achieving best practice inventory management for spare parts. Or maybe you want to at least understand what consitutes best practice inventory management so that you can implement improvements that take you in that direction. One problem of course is actually identifying best practice. What does it […]
The Inventory Cash Release® Process – A Step By Step Guide
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Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) Definition and Explanation
Understanding the definitions used in spare parts inventory management is vitally important. For without a common understanding of terms it is difficult to communicate effectively. Imagine what happens when someone uses a term such as SKU in a conversation or email and the person listening or reading doesn’t understand that term. It is rare for […]
Are 99% of Spare Parts Inventory Statistics Pointless?
We have all been there – engaged someone to do a survey of the organization on some topic or other or perhaps complete some other type of analysis (and I am not just thinking here about spare parts inventory analysis). We then look forward to the meeting where they present their ‘findings’ and generate the […]
Has the Internet Delivered Improved Spare Parts Inventory Management?
There is no doubt that the advent of the internet has delivered incredible productivity and efficiency improvements for businesses worldwide. Improved communications, fast data transfers, and reduced travel through the use of video conferencing are just a few of the benefits that have been widely realized. In addition we have access to information like never […]
The Inventory Cash Release® Process
[grwebform url=”https://app.getresponse.com/view_webform_v2.js?u=uY&webforms_id=14719202″ css=”on” center=”off” center_margin=”200″/] Over the years this blog has explored many aspects of spare parts inventory management and usually there is a little feedback on each article. But when I recently mentioned in one article the 7 Actions for Inventory Reduction the response was unprecedented. Apparently many readers hadn’t heard of this approach […]
Spare Parts Inventory Management Identifying What Works
Subject Area: Spare Parts Inventory Management Identifying What Works I am a lover of Italian food – especially pasta. What I particularly like about pasta is the almost endless variety of forms that the pasta can take. Essentially you can use the same base ingredients to create many different types of dishes. That’s the beauty […]
Three Problems with Big Data and Spare Parts Inventory Management
Big data is the buzz term of the moment – including big data and spare parts inventory management. For the un-initiated ‘big data’ refers to the collection of huge amounts of data, held in large and complex databases. The buzz around big data is that it is said to enable companies to gain new and […]