Subject Area: Transforming Spare Parts Operations Concerned about the amount of money tied up in your spare parts inventory? Worried that your current approach to transforming spare parts operations doesn’t generate the results you want? Failure to understand the ‘rules’ around spare parts inventory leads to waste in spare parts
37% of Money Spent on Spare Parts Is Wasted
Subject Area: Money Spent on Spare Parts Are you concerned about the amount of money tied up in your spare parts inventory? Would you be surprised to learn that 37% of the money spent on spare parts is wasted? This is true. How do we know this? Years of experience
Spare Parts Management Decisions: Your Business Profit Relies on Them
Subject Area: Spare Parts Management Decisions Do you fully understand the connection between your business’ profit and your spare parts management decisions? How does a decision on spare parts holdings and management flow through to your corporate profit? The reality is that your business profit relies on the day-to-day spare
Excess Spare Parts Inventories: a Symptom or the Problem?
Subject Area: Excess Spare Parts Inventories Concerned about the excess spare parts inventories that your company has? Do you think that this is the problem that needs to be solved? The reality is that excess inventory is a symptom, not the problem. The ‘problem’ is something else in your spare
A Specific Multi-National Company (MNC) Problem
Most of my career has been spent working with multi-national companies (MNCs). Sometimes these companies have operations in just a couple of countries. Sometimes they have hundreds of locations around the world. One thing they usually have in common is a disjointed approach to spare parts inventory management. They lack
How to Select the Right Vendor for the Services That You Need
Recently I presented a webinar that addressed the pros and cons of outsourcing the procurement of MRO. What we didn’t address was the issue of selecting the right provider. This issue doesn’t just impact procurement outsourcing but ANY provider of services. Here are links to two articles that address how
The Hidden Costs of Used Industrial Equipment
At its core, the process of asset recovery is exactly what sounds like: A viable way for businesses to recover capital from either surplus or unused industrial assets, like spare parts and unused plant and equipment. What is not often fully appreciated is that one of the hidden costs of
Leveraging Consignment Inventory Options
Subject Area: Consignment Inventory Many years ago I developed an approach to inventory optimization that I called The Inventory Cash Release Process (ICR). At the heart of that technique is the 7 Actions for Inventory Reduction. These ‘7 Actions’ were developed by challenging the constraints that are inherent in