Ask a maintenance manager how much of the storeroom's value is actually protecting production, and most can't answer with confidence. One steel plant's spare parts strategy was "keep everything, just in case," which meant capital tied up in parts nobody had touched in years, while a handful of genuinely critical components still ran the risk of a stockout. Building a criticality matrix into the CMMS separated the two, and the storeroom got smaller and safer at the same time. Sign up to see what's really sitting in your own storeroom.
The storeroom held years of accumulated stock with no criticality logic behind it, motors and bearings tucked into every corner "just in case." Meanwhile, a handful of genuinely mission-critical components, the ones tied to an eighteen-month lead time, still carried real stockout risk because nobody had separated them from the general clutter.
Where The Inventory Value Was Sitting
Oxmaint links spare parts to equipment criticality, consumption history, and PM schedules, so stocking decisions are based on data instead of gut feel. Sign up for a free trial to see it against your own inventory, or book a demo to walk through your storeroom.
Inventory Strategy Before And After
The goal was never to hold less inventory across the board, it was to hold the right inventory. Once parts were linked to the equipment they protect and the consumption patterns behind them, capital could move away from slow-moving stock and toward the small set of parts that actually prevent costly downtime.
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Stop Paying To Store Parts That Never Move
Oxmaint links every spare part to the equipment it protects, its consumption history, and its actual criticality, so your storeroom carries less risk and less waste. Sign up for a free trial to see it against your own inventory, or book a demo to walk through your storeroom.
