Subject: Friend, is spare parts optimization a zero-sum game?

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Hi Friend,

Why is it that when discussions turn to spare parts inventory optimization, maintenance and procurement are cast as natural enemies?

There is often an attitude of inventory optimization being a competition with winners and losers. That is, if someone ‘wins’ then someone else must 'lose'. 

In economic theory, this is known as a zero-sum game 

Well, here’s the problem.

The zero-sum view of inventory optimization comes about by looking only at the effects or outcomes of poor spare parts inventory practices, not the causes.

Here is our tip:

A reduction in inventory holdings does not 
automatically result in an increase in risk



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Phillip Slater

Spare Parts Inventory Optimization Specialist
Founder, SparePartsKnowHow
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