DataPowa Blog

Before optimizing a maintenance spare parts (MRO) inventory, you first need to know how to read it. Most teams have what they need to answer the right questions, but they look at the wrong indicators, or look at them in isolation. Here are six signals that, together, reveal where capital is trapped and where stockout risk is hiding. For each one: what it measures, the pattern that should alert you, and the typical action. 1. The inventory value trend What it measures. How the

Most teams working to optimize their spare parts inventory pour almost all their energy into a single topic: forecasting demand better. They refine models, test forecasting methods, argue over past consumption. That is useful, but it is often only half of the equation, while the other half, which sometimes weighs more, gets ignored: the replenishment lead time. On slow-moving parts, supplier lead time, its value as much as its variability, is frequently the primary driver of