Aftermarket service and MRO covers the maintenance and repair of equipment, facilities and machinery. With many parts to manage and a lack of powerful planning tools, many companies with parts inventories have too many of the wrong parts. The result is unnecessary inventory expense, while still suffering service-limiting stock-outs.

Manual efforts to improve this situation fail, because of the time-intensive nature of the problem. A large number of parts, each with special considerations, can quickly bog down someone trying to improve the parts purchases. Whether planning for one location or multiple locations, service parts and MRO planning can be a daunting task.