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Spare Parts Training Credibility

January 12 Phillip Slater

Subject Area: Spare Parts Training Credibility

Selecting the Best Spare Parts Management Training for You

Criterion #2: Credibility


 
Spare Parts Training Cedibility
To have credibility a website or training service must be a trusted source of information.

These days it is easy to set up a good-looking website, write up your LinkedIn profile, shoot some video, and claim some credibility. But not all experience is practical and good-looking content is not necessarily good content.

It is vital to check the long-term credentials of the people who develop and lead the training.

The founder of SparePartsKnowHow, Phillip Slater, has all the credentials you should expect; multiple university degrees, a high achieving career in maintenance and operations management, global experience, the author of nine books, adjunct presenter for multiple universities.

But his credibility really comes from being a highly trusted and sought-after consultant that delivers results. In a career that is still going strong after nearly 40 years, Phillip has long been the global ‘go-to’ guy for spare parts inventory management.

What about the longevity of the website, I hear you ask.

SparePartsKnowHow was created in 2011. We have been leading the way in spare parts inventory management training for more than a decade.

In 2012, we were awarded the Kim Rothwell Leadership in Logistics Education Award from the Logistics Association of Australia. In 2017 we were a Business Innovator Award winner.

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Spare Parts Training CredibilityIn addition, SparePartsKnowHow is an approved training partner with University of Tennessee and our content was the basis of the Spare Parts Inventory Management University Certificate program at the University of Kansas.

 
 
 
 
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Phillip Slater is the world’s leading authority on the storeroom.

Doc Palmer, PE, MBA, CMRP
Author, Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, Fourth Edition
McGraw Hill, 2019

 
 


 
 

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