Do you really need to think big to achieve your goals in spare parts management?
Can you achieve your goals through incremental, yet powerful, change?
In the post linked to this email I answer these two questions by reviewing some more of the insight from the book Atomic Habits by James Clear.
While the book is about individual goals and behavior, I am putting it into the context of your spare parts management habits.
There are five key lessons.
1. “Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.”
With spare parts management your inventory levels and availability outcomes are what they are because of your past stocking decisions and current processes. They are, in effect, a lagging indicator of these two factors.
The only way to achieve different outcomes is to change the approach to stocking decisions and improve your processes. Without that change you are just hoping and not managing.
Which brings us to #2.
