Repair-versus-replace decision support

Planning teams need recommendations that fit their decision cadence. This brief considers how repair-versus-replace decision support could make an existing workflow more timely, traceable and useful.

Practitioner lens

Evaluate repair-versus-replace decision support against a balanced scorecard: customer service, total cost, working capital and planner effort. Improvement in one measure can shift burden to another.

First experiment

Map the present workflow, name the decision owner and record the latest useful intervention time.

This is an original educational brief. It is a starting point for discussion, not a claim that one technique fits every supply chain.