by Jon Schreibfeder | Aug 6, 2019 | Best Practices, Forecasting, Order Cycles, Purchasing, Replenishment Parameters, Replenishment Source, Stocking Decisions
Fine Tuning Safety Stock Quantities There is a simple, best practice residual inventory analysis that will help ensure that the safety stock quantity you maintain for each item is “just right”. To perform this analysis: Record for each item, the forecast...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Aug 5, 2019 | Best Practices, Consulting, Forecasting, Order Cycles, Purchasing, Replenishment Parameters, Replenishment Source, Stocking Decisions
Using Residual Inventory Analysis in Fine Tuning Your Safety Stock Quantities Over the last several months we have been discussing various ways of calculating safety stock quantities. If safety stock quantities are too low, they will not provide adequate...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Jul 10, 2019 | Analysis, Best Practices, Forecasting, Order Cycles, Purchasing, Replenishment Parameters, Stocking Decisions
Protecting Customer Service – Part 2 Last month we began a discussion of safety stock. That is, “insurance inventory” to protect against unusually high demand or delays in receiving a replenishment shipment from the supplier of an item. Though we found...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Jun 10, 2019 | Best Practices, Forecasting, Order Cycles, Replenishment Parameters, Replenishment Source, Stocking Decisions
Protecting Customer Service – Part 1 Over the last several months, we have been discussing when to order products in order to meet your customers’ expectations of product availability. We have explored various methods for calculating accurate forecasts and...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Feb 15, 2019 | Stocking Decisions, Warehousing
Organizations with multiple stores or warehouses must assign an authorized replenishment path or “ARP” to every product stocked in each location. The ARP specifies the primary source of replenishment for each item on that branch’s approved stock list: Is it purchased...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Jan 15, 2019 | Best Practices, Stocking Decisions, Warehousing
In deciding what products to stock, remember the goal of effective inventory management: “Effective inventory management enables an organization to meet or exceed customers’ expectations of product availability with the amount of each item that will maximize net...
