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Valuation of Your Parts Inventory |
Are you buying or selling inventory, using it for collateral, or just need to know the value of an inventory of parts? AVITAS, the industry’s leading valuation expert, is able to provide an independent market assessment of your parts inventory. By reviewing your inventory against our extensive proprietary database, we are able to provide a …
Spare Parts and Why You Need Them
Keeping an inventory of critical spare parts for your material handling system will ensure a high rate of uptime and a well-functioning system for years.
How NDT helps with safety of parts
Why would one company want to use NDT methods for their company the answer is fairly simple and it comes down to safety?
Why We Love Objects With Moving Parts
We may envision the future as sleek and smooth, but we shouldn’t forget the value of cogs, switches, and buttons.
What It's Like Working at a JDM Auto Parts Importer
The important thing to know is you’re going to be importing more than just car parts. Namely: spiders.
Dealers, distributors and service providers learn from parts shortage
It doesn’t matter where you sit in the aftermarket, those on the front line of sourcing parts explain how dire the situation is and what they learned.
How an old-line auto parts supplier is playing the shift to electric cars
This North Side manufacturer is investing in new plants, new capabilities—even a new CEO.
How the IoT Changes the Spare Parts Supply Chain
The spare parts supply chain will get much more efficient thanks to the internet of things. Learn how in this post.
3 Reasons Why Traceability is Key to Reducing Errors on Your Plant Floor
See how implementing a system that provides full traceability for inventory and reporting can help you reduce errors on your plant floor and avoid recalls.
How to Manufacture Like a Boss: 13 To Do’s
A boss manufacturer makes parts faster and better, watches it in real time and knows exactly what everything costs. To become one, get back to the basics.
5 Tips to Being a Better Buyer with EnterpriseIQ
Part II of this blog series covers what happens when your parts arrive at the dock. What tools in EnterpriseIQ can you use to assist your buyers?
How to Optimize Inventory in the Digital Age
As many as 75 percent of companies are still using spreadsheets to optimize their inventories. And most still use ABC Classification, which dates all the way back to 1951<br>Increasing supply chain complexity and demand uncertainty is creating a staggering array of variables, leaving planners that rely on last century’s solutions with little chance of meeting both service levels and financial goals in a sustainable way…
How one case packer does the work of three machines
The M2000 case packer does the work of three machines, erases downtime and excess mechanical parts, and delivers big on flexibility and throughput.
How to Leverage Automation in Your Manufacturing Process
See how capturing inventory data efficiently & effectively will free up time consumed by physical inventory counts to focus on what counts - quality.
Parts: Initial stocking guides
You’ve just gotten your brand new piece of industrial equipment, and based on some experience you’ve determined that you want to lay in some spare parts for the eventuality of repair so you ask your dealer for [at best] an initial stocking guide to use to choose what parts to stock or [at worst] you …
How far would you drive for a Micro Center?
Growing up, my nearest Micro Center was 45 minutes away, but I would gladly make that drive regularly for flash drives and computer parts. What about you?
More Than the Sum of Its Parts
The relaunch of a successful manufacturing brand to reflect changes in the business and marketplace ended up doing much more–sparking new alignment and passion around what’s always made the company great. Issue PGC, a manufacturer of custom gaskets, seals, adhesives and other components, was at a crossroads. Their business was evolving, with a major investment … Continue reading More Than the Sum of Its Parts
How ValuTrack Helped a Manufacturer Build a Better Inventory Management Business
ValuTrack has helped a manufacturer address its significant loss ratio of units delivered to commercial development sites. ValuTrack installed barcode softwa...
How 3 leaders in the parts industry are remaking themselves
Automakers are preparing to change the nature of vehicles and transportation in general. The big question is, how will their suppliers evolve to support them?
Exploring Dynamic 365 For Plastics Manufacturers: Who Moved My Inventory?
As anybody familiar with the plastics industry knows, inventory is a moving target both literally and figuratively. This blog illustrates how Dynamics 365 can help with inventory management and cycle counting in plastics manufacturing.
Demand for Machined Parts Increases Shop Bargaining Power
Recent economic trends are empowering job shops to negotiate higher prices.
