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Inventory Stratification

Overview

Inventory management is one of the most important aspects of distribution, but also one of the hardest activities to optimize, given the constantly changing demands of the market and in company ability. Implementing best practices developed by the Global Supply Chain Lab will allow your company to reduce, increase, and/or reorganize your inventory as needed.

Through knowledge learned from the inventory management program, attended by all our management and key salespersons, we have reduced our total inventory levels by over 20%”

-Brent A. Burns, Building Materials Distributor

Challenges

Misaligned inventory investment

Critical stock outs

Excessive ‘C’ & ‘D’ inventory

SKU proliferation

Solutions

Multiple criteria stratification

  • Profitability
  • Logistics
  • Criticality
  • Custom criteria

Combination inventory stratification

Benefits

Right-size inventory investments

Manage item-level profitability

Maximize your ROI on inventory

Balance customer service

Reduce obsolescence

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