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In a previous post we wrote about the inefficiency of automotive service parts networks.
http://spplan.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/auto-service-part-networks-are-a-mess/
The line of reasoning of the article was that manufacturers were unnecessarily outsourcing the management of service parts too low in the supply chain – at the dealer level and the auto service parts could be greatly improved in their management [...]

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Caught in a Time Warp

It is always amazing to come upon a technology that is so amazingly underutilized. This would be the case for service parts online databases.

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We needed a door handle assembly part for a 1997 Honda Accord. First we started with eBay, which really had a pretty small inventory. We could only [...]

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Some History on Parts Databases

Back in the 2000 at the top of the tech boom, a company called Aspect Technology was purchased by supply chain software company i2 Technologies. Aspect Technology had developed an extensive parts database and the idea was that i2 would be able to leverage this database to power its supply chain [...]

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