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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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The Reality of Automotive Service Parts
Posted in Basic Supply Chain Concepts, SAP, tagged Automotive, eBay, Spare Parts, Supplier Collaboration on May 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Auto Service Parts Websites a Problem
Posted in Basic Supply Chain Concepts, SAP, Service Parts Database, tagged Amazon.com, Automotive, eBay, Fourth Party Logistics Providers, Honda, Spare Parts on May 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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.
The Story
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 [...]
Service Parts Databases and eBay
Posted in SAP, Service Parts Database, tagged eBay, Spare Parts on July 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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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