LIVE SESSION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 · 1:00 PM ET · 45 MINS Bruce Power: Improving Reliability while Right-Sizing Inventory 45 minutes with Jeff Cremasco, Senior Strategist of Supply Chain at Bruce Power, on MRO inventory optimization — reducing excess inventory…
*MRO Inventory ROI*: How to Calculate and Prove the Business Case Optimizing MRO inventory is an easy idea to endorse and a hard one to fund, because the value is spread across working capital, uptime, and labor, and no single…
*Obsolete and Slow-Moving MRO Inventory*: Find It, Free It, Prevent It Obsolete and slow-moving stock, SLOB in the trade, is the quiet majority of most MRO storerooms: parts for retired equipment, one-time crisis buys, and items that have not moved…
*MRO Materials Management*: The Complete Guide MRO materials management is the unglamorous discipline that decides whether every other MRO effort works: can you identify a part reliably, trust its on-hand, find it when you need it, and stock it at…
*Vendor-Managed Inventory* for MRO: When VMI Works, and When It Doesn’t Vendor-managed inventory promises to take the replenishment burden off your team: the supplier watches the bin and refills it. For the right MRO parts it is a genuine win;…
*Consignment Inventory* for MRO Spare Parts: A Practical Guide Consignment inventory is the arrangement every CFO likes on paper: the parts sit on your shelf, but they stay on the supplier’s books until you actually use them, so the working…
*Insurance Spares*: How to Stock the Parts You Hope to Never Use An insurance spare is the expensive part that sits on the shelf for years doing nothing, until the day it saves you a multi-week outage. It is the…
The *MRO Inventory KPIs* That Actually Matter Most MRO inventory dashboards are full of numbers that move without meaning: turns, line counts, fill rates measured against the wrong denominator. The metrics that actually matter answer two questions a plant manager…
*MRO Cost Reduction*: Where the Real Savings Are (and Aren’t) When a CFO asks for MRO cost reduction, the default answer is to squeeze suppliers or cut headcount in the storeroom. Both are small levers pulled hard. The real MRO…
*Inventory Optimization Software*: MRO Buyers Guide Most inventory optimization software is demand planning wearing a new label. This buyer’s guide separates MRO-native platforms from retrofits, with the three disqualifying questions to ask every vendor. Key Takeaways Score every vendor on…
