DENIZ KARLI

In spare parts supply chain, demand heavily depends on the size of the installed base as spare parts are one of the main ingredients of maintenance activities. Therefore, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) try to track the number of capital products in use and their usage rates. This information is utilized in several studies by different researchers for spare parts inventory control (Pinçe and Dekker, 2011; Dekker et al., 2013). It is shown that considering the number of capital products for spare parts inventory control helps reducing holding and purchasing costs of spare parts inventory. With the advancement of internet, electronic market places are being widely used by many companies for busines-to-business (B2B) exchanges of products and services. In spare parts supply chains, increasing amount of maintenance companies use those internet platforms as they are usually cheaper and faster than the regular supplier of spare parts. Since traders on these electronic market places..

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