Financial Management

- Warehouse space, Logistics, Turnaround Time
- Property tax, Insurance, Depreciation
- Repair or replace; refurbish or purchase new
- Carrying cost and Obsolescence
- Management and Operational Resources
- Inventory cost

Demand planning, Forecast & Optimization

- Location and logistical considerations
- Failure rate and consumption patterns
- Seasonality
- Emergency and Safety Inventory
- Growth
- Service level agreements

Solution Models

- Transaction Model
- Fixed price model
- Repair – Return and Spares Management

Procurement Guidance

- Min/max levels
- New, recovered and refurbished
- Mean time to failure (MTTF)
- Mean time between failures (MTBF)