Purpose–Spare parts management plays a relevant role for equipment-intensive
companies. An important step of such process is the spare parts classification, enabling …

This paper investigates the gap between research and practice in spare parts management,
with specific reference to durable goods addressed to private or professional customers. The …

Every physical asset and product that contributes to production or service is called inventory
in the production or service industry. Inventories counted among companies' assets are …

This paper proposes a hierarchical multi-criteria classification method developed for
inventory management purposes and applied in a case study of the spare parts business of …

While system engineering concepts have been broadly applied in healthcare systems, most
improvements have focused on a specific segment or unit of the delivery system. Using a …

Several papers have studied inventory classification in order to group items with a view to
facilitating their management. The generated classes are then coupled with the specific …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the main reasons for spare parts logistics
failures and address logistics distribution design in order to achieve the desired level of after …

Today, companies are making efforts on inventory control enhancement in order to deliver
products and services to their customers rapidly at low cost. There is no doubt that inventory …

Although Lean Thinking (LT) is becoming popular in service organizations, few studies have
applied Lean tools to the education sector. Furthermore, although inventories are one of the …

Based on a stakeholder perspective in this article results of an in-depth exploratory case
study are presented. In our study we focus on how the established relationships among …