Vendor Managed Inventory

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Vendor Managed Inventory

PC Parts, Inc. (PCPI) provides best in class, niche, business process outsourcing for the IT hardware repair/ service supply chain.

PCPI offers a unique suite of logistical and system integration services coupled with proprietary data informatics that facilitate the strategic inventory planning, distribution, logistics and transportation of critical service parts in the field prior to their consumption.

PCPI utilizes a blend of reverse engineering and remanufacturing techniques to enhance product quality and value.

PCPI has developed a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) program that actively manages parts in the field for our customers. The VMI program applies proprietary logic and informatics to historical parts consumption to make a predictive analysis as to the failure of certain parts in the future. When warranted, PCPI will forward those parts into the field, in advance of a failure event.


The parts can be warehoused and consigned in several ways:

  1. Central Stocking Location (CSL): For diffuse consumption of parts, inventory is aggregated in PCPI’s primary warehouse facilities in Harrisburg, PA
  2. Customer Owned Field Stocking Location (FSL): For consumption at the service organization level, parts are forwarded to the customers primary facility and/or to individual technician depots
  3. End-User Field Stocking Location (FSL): For consumption of parts by one particular end-user, parts are forwarded to a “closet” location at the end-user facility for use by the customer’s technicians.
  4. Independent/ 3rd Party Field Stocking Location (3PL): For consumption of parts by multiple customers and multiple end-users in on concentric geographic location, parts are consigned into a third-party independent FSL. PCPI has established a national network of FSL’s in order to ensure quick delivery and reduced freight costs through the consolidation and efficiency of the distributed inventory sites.

The Benefits

  1. Increased first call resolution for field engineers
  2. Reduced overnight transportation expenses (forward logistics)
  3. Eliminated return transportation expenses (reverse logistics)
  4. Eliminated costs of provisioning service parts inventory (carrying costs, obsolescence costs, opportunity cost)
  5. Enhanced logistics (warehousing & transportation) and inventory planning (iterative weekly rebalance)
  6. Enabled systems integration to reduced parts procurement and logistics administration
  7. Enhanced field service tools to include DirecTech & PCPI WebApp

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