by Jon Schreibfeder | Sep 15, 2022 | Best Practices, Physical Inventory – Cycle Counting, Purchasing, Stocking Decisions
Is Your Company Making Money? – Part 2By Jon and Matt Schreibfeder For the past several months, we have been discussing profitability. Our goal is to ensure that every product you stock is either profitable or leads to other profitable sales. In the first...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Jul 6, 2022 | Analysis, Best Practices, Forecasting, Purchasing, Replenishment Parameters, Stocking Decisions
Measuring Profitability By Matt and Jon Schreibfeder Besides customer service (i.e, having those quantities of stocked items available, when customers want them), EIM considers profitability to be the most important metric available to our clients. If your...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Apr 7, 2022 | Analysis, Best Practices, Consulting, Forecasting, Purchasing, Replenishment Parameters, Replenishment Source, Stocking Decisions, Warehousing
Developing Stocking Rules – Part 2 By Jon Schreibfeder Last month we began a discussion of determining what products you should keep in stock. As we said in that article, when you decide to stock a product, you are making a commitment. A commitment to maintain a...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis, Best Practices, Consulting, Forecasting, General, Order Cycles, Purchasing, Replenishment Parameters, Replenishment Source, Stocking Decisions, Warehousing
EIM Effective Inventory Management, Inc. Dealing with a Chaotic Supply Chain – Part #4 Controlling Inventory Explosions Due to Extended Lead Times By Jon and Matt Schreibfeder Due to supply chain disruptions, a lot of organizations are experiencing drastically...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Oct 7, 2021 | Analysis, Best Practices, Forecasting, Order Cycles, Purchasing, Replenishment Parameters, Replenishment Source, Stocking Decisions, Vendor Managed Inventory
Dealing with a Chaotic Supply Chain – Part #2 By Jon Schreibfeder and Matt Schreibfeder We continue to experience disruptions in the supply chain. Material that used to be reliably available now is often hard to come by. Last month we began our discussion of...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Sep 18, 2021 | Analysis, Best Practices, Forecasting, Order Cycles, Purchasing, Replenishment Parameters, Stocking Decisions, Vendor Managed Inventory
Dealing with a Chaotic Supply Chain – Part #1 By Jon and Matt Schreibfeder Most organizations are currently experiencing unprecedented challenges in inventory planning: Vendors frequently cannot consistently deliver what they previously supplied in a timely...
