Founder, SparePartsKnowHow.com
Phillip Slater is a global leader and consultant on materials management and specifically, engineering spare parts inventory management and optimization. In 2012 Phillip was honored with a national Leadership in Logistics Education Award.
With more than 30 years experience Phillip has had a career-long focus on improving business performance and has worked in a wide range of industries in 34 countries, including: Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Mining, Pharmaceuticals, Paper, Smelting, Steel, Petrochemicals, Utilities, Parts Wholesaling, and Transport. Phillip has engineering and maintenance degrees from The University of New South Wales and Monash University.
In addition, Phillip is the author of eight books, including Smart Inventory Solutions and The Optimization Trap.
Phillip is the Founder of the SparePartsKnowHow.com website which has subscribers from 120 countries.
Since 2001 Phillip has advised:
- 435 companies
- in 34 countries
- with +1,200 storerooms
- holding $6.0 bn of inventory
Phillip’s work results in companies achieving better parts management, more reliable spare parts supply and saving hundreds of millions of dollars in expenditu
re on spare parts items.
Phillip is in demand internationally as an expert conference speaker, having provided papers and presentations to more than 50 conferences and industry groups, on four continents. In addition, Phillip has been published more than 200 times in industry and trade magazines around the world.
For more information please visit the Phillip Slater website.
