// GUIDE 01 · PARTS FORECASTING

Will I know what parts I need before I need them?

Yes. NORDVEST forecasts part demand from runtime hours and PM intervals across every asset you service — so you order ahead of the work instead of scrambling when the truck's already loading.

Built in

Forecasting from the work, not your shelf

Most parts ordering is min/max on your own shelf: you hit a reorder point and buy more. That tells you what you ran out of — it says nothing about what's coming. NORDVEST forecasts the other way around: it looks at the work that's going to happen and works back to the parts that work will consume.

For every asset you service, NORDVEST knows the runtime hours and the PM intervals — when the next filter, separator, or oil change is due. Roll that up across the whole fleet and you get a demand curve: which parts are needed, in what quantity, and roughly when.

30, 60, 90 days out

The forecast lays the next 90 days on a timeline. Each part shows what's covered by stock and what you'll need to order now to have it in hand before the work lands — lead times included, so a 14-day separator gets flagged earlier than a 2-day filter.

The result is the opposite of stocking by gut: you buy ahead because you can see the need coming, and you stop tying up cash in a $2,000 separator that sits on the shelf for two years.

Smart vs. worst-case

You can read the forecast two ways. Smart mode uses the most likely demand based on actual runtime and PM cadence. Worst-case mode assumes everything that could come due in the window does — useful when you'd rather over-stock a cheap consumable than risk a go-back.

Narrow it down

Filter the forecast by customer or asset group when you're planning a specific site visit, or expand any row to see exactly which assets are driving the demand for that part.

Why forecast at all? The truck rolling without the right filter and the separator gathering dust are the same mistake from two directions — stocking blind. Forecasting from real service intervals turns parts from a guess into a plan.

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