A centralized management system for managing maintenance parts of machines
at multiple plants includes: a warehouse facility for providing a
concentrated storage of the maintenance parts for multiple types of the
machines at multiple plants; a necessary parts management device for
managing whether the maintenance parts are required for the machine; and
a parts shipment management device for determining the maintenance parts
to be shipped from the warehouse facility based on management information
in the necessary parts management device. The present invention provides
a system for managing maintenance parts that allows management costs to
be restricted while allowing changes in the status of machines at plants
to be handled in a flexible manner.