How Clean Is Your Usage?

When we founded Effective Inventory Management (EIM) in 1996, our goal was to help organizations throughout the world achieve the goal of effective inventory management – that is, to meet or exceed customers’ expectations of product availability while maximizing...

How Clean is Your Usage?

When we founded Effective Inventory Management (EIM) in 1996, our goal was to help organizations throughout the world achieve the goal of effective inventory management – that is, to meet or exceed customers’ expectations of product availability while maximizing...

How Do You Tell Good Advice from Bad Advice?

Last month I discussed a “revolutionary” method of inventory management that sounded great in theory. The author promised spectacular results from abandoning age-old concepts and adapting this simple idea. Unfortunately this “simple idea”...

Don’t Believe Everything You Read

I shouldn’t have my blood pressure taken after reading some of the widely distributed business periodicals. I just finished reading a newsletter where the author states that distributors should abandon forecasting future demand of products and merely continue to...