“…Among them, fourteen (Guvenir & Erel (1998), Flores & Whybark (1986, 1987, Partovi & Burton (1993), Partovi & Anandarajan (2002), Bhattacharya et al (2007) In Appendix A, most of the research papers applied classification approaches to common inventory classification, therefore we will not provide further details on them but interested readers can refer to them directly. We focus on the eight contributions (Guvenir & Erel (1998), Flores & Whybark (1986, 1987, Partovi & Burton (1993), Partovi & Anandarajan (2002), Chu et al (2008), Rezaei & Dowlatshahi (2010), Hu et al (2017)) that have carried out case studies applied to spare parts classification. Based on them, we divide the ABC classification criteria, which were employed in them,…”