A Buyer’s Year: A Market-Watch and Purchasing Calendar for Wear-Part Programs
What should a buyer of plow wear parts do in each month of the year?
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Reviewing Safety Stock Monthly: A Maintenance Routine for Distributors
How should a distributor of wear parts review safety stock each month?
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Cobalt and Carbide Dust: What Buyers and Shops Should Read in the SDS
You buy carbide edges or inserts, and the supplier sends a safety data sheet (SDS) that you are unsure how to read.
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DRC Cobalt Quotas and Carbide Costs: What Edge Buyers Can and Cannot Conclude
A supplier mentions cobalt costs as a reason for a carbide price rise.
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Verifying ‘Non-China Tungsten’ Claims: What Evidence Is Reasonable to Request
A supplier tells you their inserts use non-China tungsten and charges more.
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Two Tungsten Prices: Why China-Domestic and Export Quotes Diverge
A supplier quotes a carbide insert price tied to tungsten, and you see two very different tungsten prices in the news.
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Cobalt Content in Carbide Inserts: Why Binder Percentage Is Only One Variable
If two carbide inserts list the same cobalt percentage, are they equivalent?
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Keeping a Supply-Risk Register Alive: A Monthly and Quarterly Review Routine
You built a supply-risk register for wear parts last year, and it has not been opened since.
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Do You Need a Second Source for Carbide Inserts? A Decision Tree
All your inserts come from one supplier and you wonder whether a second source is worth the effort.
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Standard Carbide-Blade Specs: What Clear Roads Project 17-02 Set Out to Do
What happened: Clear Roads, a pooled-fund winter maintenance research program, completed Project 17-02, "Standard Specifications for Plow Blades with Carbide Inserts", in…
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