inventory analysis & planning

Challenges

Effective inventory analysis and demand planning is vital for keeping the amount of working capital invested in stock to a minimum. To operate a supply chain efficiently with reduced inventory all processes and systems must be aligned to the end goal: meeting your customer order on time and in full at the lowest cost.

Approach

To achieve this, we advocate the disciplines of lean logistics in your organization’s inventory management policy to ensure:

• Effective data gathering and value stream analysis

• Efficient communication and information sharing

• No deviation from standardized processes and controls

• Continual measurement of performance against target

• An operational problem resolution process

Within our infrastructure model the inventory module allows us to test alternative inventory policies against a range of future scenarios, identifying the impact on:

• Customer service 

• Warehouse space requirements 

• Warehouse activity (particularly goods in and pick face replenishment)

• Transport movements

• Working capital