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- Why Bar Code? (February 1, 1998)
- Accurately Measuring Customer Service (February 1, 1999)
- EDI and the Internet… What’s the Difference? (February 1, 1999)
- Implementing Effective Inventory Management (February 2, 1999)
- How Much Is Free Freight Worth? (February 2, 1999)
- Pot of Gold Turns to Lead (February 3, 1999)
- Forecasting Items with Long Lead Times (February 3, 1999)
- Make This Year’s Physical Inventory More Accurate and Less Painful (February 4, 1999)
- When the Price Goes Down, How Much Do You Buy? (February 5, 1999)
- Encouraging Inventory Accuracy (February 7, 1999)
- The Cascading Effect of Effective Inventory Management (February 8, 1999)
- A New Look at Measuring Customer Service (February 9, 1999)
- Are You Making Money? (February 10, 1999)
- Can You Predict if Inventory Will Die in Your Warehouse? (May 5, 1999)
- A New Look at Safety Stock (July 1, 1999)
- Forecasting Future Demand of Products (Part One) (August 1, 1999)
- Forecasting Future Demand of Products (Part Two) (August 5, 1999)
- Another Look at Inventory Turnover (August 10, 1999)
- Protect Yourself against Theft (September 5, 1999)
- There’s No Such Thing as Free Inventory (January 2, 2000)
- Put Your Time to the Best Use – The Myth of Disposing of Dead Inventory (November 1, 2000)
- Justly Judging Your Vendors (November 10, 2000)
- Do You Know Where Your Information Comes From? (January 2, 2001)
- Do Your Employees Understand the True Cost of Lost Material? (March 1, 2001)
- Liquidating Non-Moving Inventory (May 1, 2001)
- Liquidate All Slow-Moving Inventory? (May 2, 2001)
- Varying the Carrying Cost for Individual Products (June 1, 2001)
- Dealing with Items That Experience Sporadic Sales (August 1, 2001)
- A Questionnaire for New Inventory Items (August 2, 2001)
- Do You Monitor Your Residual Inventory? (August 10, 2001)
- A Key to Accurate Demand Forecasting (November 1, 2001)
- Is It Sporadic or Is It Seasonal? (January 2, 2002)
- Adjusting Usage for Lost Sales (May 2, 2002)
- Controlling Open-Stock Inventory (July 1, 2002)
- Handling Maintenance Repairs and Operations Inventory (September 2, 2002)
- Why Weekly Forecasting? (Part One) (March 1, 2003)
- Why Weekly Forecasting? (Part Two) (March 5, 2003)
- Cycle Count Variances: How to Fix Inventory Discrepancies (July 1, 2003)
- Calculating Your Target Inventory Investment (January 1, 2004)
- Your Ideal Inventory Investment (January 2, 2004)
- Achieving Lean Distribution (February 5, 2004)
- Do You Have an Early Warning System? (June 1, 2004)
- One Product Ranking Is Not Enough! (January 4, 2005)
- Returns Management (May 1, 2005)
- Vendor Managed Inventory: There’s More To It Than Just Selling Products (April 1, 2006)
- Adjusted Margin…a better measurement of profitability (May 1, 2006)
- Does Your New Inventory Contribute to Dead Stock? (May 1, 2010)
- Why Is Inventory Turnover Important? (July 1, 2010)
- The Promise of Collaborative Forecasting (November 5, 2010)
- The Mysterious Cost of Carrying Inventory (January 10, 2011)
- How Much Does It Cost You To Buy? (January 10, 2011)
- Terms Discounts vs. Extended Terms (April 1, 2011)
- Achieving Success with Vendor-Managed Inventory: Part One (June 1, 2011)
- Achieving Success with Vendor-Managed Inventory: Part Two (June 2, 2011)
- Achieving Success with Vendor-Managed Inventory: Part Three (June 3, 2011)
- Sporadic Items with Seasonal Demand (October 1, 2011)
- Cycle Counts vs. Physical Inventory Counts (December 1, 2011)
- The Advantages of a Corporate Replenishment Department (February 1, 2012)
- Don’t Believe Everything You Read (April 2, 2012)
- How Do You Tell Good Advice from Bad Advice? (May 2, 2012)
- Consider if Some Inventory Will Need To Be Buried (May 6, 2012)
- How Clean is Your Usage? (June 2, 2012)
- To Purchase or Transfer: That Is the Question (July 2, 2012)
- Does Every Item Have To Be Stocked in Every Branch? (September 2, 2012)
- How Clean Is Your Usage? (September 19, 2012)
- How Much Customer Service Insurance Do You Need? (September 19, 2012)
- The Triangle of Cooperation (September 19, 2012)
- Problems with Turnover (September 19, 2012)
- When To Take Advantage of a Vendor’s Special Offer (September 19, 2012)
- Trim Inventory…the Effective Way! (September 19, 2012)
- Usage and Promotions (September 19, 2012)
- Improve Cash Flow: Don’t Always Buy the Economic Order Quantity (September 19, 2012)
- How Much Does Vendor Non-Performance Cost You? (September 19, 2012)
- Liquidating Excess Inventory, Part Two (September 20, 2012)
- Liquidating Excess Inventory, Part One (September 20, 2012)
- The Minimum Quantity Is Not a Minimum Quantity (September 20, 2012)
- A Realistic Approach to Inventory Reduction (September 20, 2012)
- Develop Your Approved Stock List (September 20, 2012)
- Accurate Anticipated Lead Times Prevent Stockouts (September 20, 2012)
- Fine-Tuning Safety Stock (September 20, 2012)
- Deciding How Much to Buy (September 20, 2012)
- Inventory Profitability Measurements (September 20, 2012)
- Analyze Your Customer Service… Hit or Miss? (September 20, 2012)
- Can Salespeople Be Replaced by Technology? (October 15, 2012)
- Don’t Manually Round Your Maximum Quantities (November 12, 2012)
- How Acccurate Are Your On-Hand Quantities? (November 14, 2012)
- Is Free Freight Always Free? (January 15, 2013)
- Scrutinze Anticipated Profitability (February 15, 2013)
- Why You Might Need a DRP System (March 15, 2013)
- Core Versus Speculative Inventory (March 15, 2013)
- Implement an Early Warning System (May 15, 2013)
- The Customer Satisfaction Analysis (July 15, 2013)
- Are You in Business for the Glory or the Money? (August 15, 2013)
- Do You Know How Often You Are Out of Stock? (September 15, 2013)
- Don’t Get Emotional About Your Stock, It Clouds Your Judgement, Part I (October 15, 2013)
- Turn Your Dead Stock and Excess Inventory into Assets – Part II (November 15, 2013)
- Turn Your Dead Stock and Excess Inventory Into Assets – Part II – Cont’d (December 15, 2013)
- Is Your Inventory System Better Than HealthCare.gov? (January 15, 2014)
- Common Sense is Not Statistically Valid (February 15, 2014)
- Dealing with Unpredictable Seasons (March 15, 2014)
- Contingency Planning (April 15, 2014)
- Contingency Planning Part II (May 15, 2014)
- Record, Evaluate, and Report (Collaborative Forecasting Part I) (June 15, 2014)
- Collaborative Forecasting – Part II (July 15, 2014)
- When a Distribution Center Makes Sense (August 15, 2014)
- Calculate Order Cycles for Key Vendors (September 15, 2014)
- The Silver Lining in Advice Articles (October 15, 2014)
- The First Key to Inventory Accuracy (November 15, 2014)
- Perfecting the Picking Process (December 15, 2014)
- We’re Too Disorganized to Improve (January 15, 2015)
- If You’re Too Lean, You’re Anorexic! (February 15, 2015)
- Major Factors Determining Day’s Supply of Inventory (March 20, 2015)
- Handling Items with Sporadic Usage (April 15, 2015)
- Accurate Order Cycles are Critical to Effective Inventory Management (May 15, 2015)
- Unrealistically Short Order Cycles Lead to Stockouts and Anarchy (June 15, 2015)
- Planning Isn’t Perfect (July 15, 2015)
- Are Past Sales a Good Indicator of Future Sales? (August 15, 2015)
- Out of Stock Reports are Worthless! (September 15, 2015)
- How to Get Great Results From a Forecasting System (October 15, 2015)
- How Do You Know if Your Software Is Set Up Correctly? Part 2 (December 15, 2015)
- How Do You Know if Your Software Is Set Up Correctly? Part III (January 15, 2016)
- How Do You Know if Your Computer Is Set Up Correctly Part IV (A Better Way to Calculate Safety Stock) (February 15, 2016)
- Use Residual Inventory Analysis to Fine Tune Safety Stock Quantities (March 16, 2016)
- How Often Should You Order from a Vendor? (April 15, 2016)
- Buy at the Right Time (May 15, 2016)
- Carefully Consider Vendor Offers (June 17, 2016)
- Collaborative Forecasting, Part I (July 15, 2016)
- Collaborative Forecasting – Part II (August 15, 2016)
- Salespeople Should Tell You What They Will Sell, Not What You Should Stock! (October 15, 2016)
- What Should Your Buyers Be Doing – Part 1 (November 15, 2016)
- What Your Buyers Should be Doing – Part II (December 16, 2016)
- What Your Buyers Should be Doing – Part III (January 20, 2017)
- What Your Buyers Should be Doing – Part IV (February 15, 2017)
- What Your Buyers Should be Doing – Part V (March 15, 2017)
- What Your Buyers Should be Doing Part VI (April 15, 2017)
- Average vs Anticipated Lead Times (May 17, 2017)
- Evaluating New Technology (June 15, 2017)
- Why is There a Constant of “24” in the EOQ Formula? (July 15, 2017)
- Base Your Purchasing Decisions on a Landed Cost (August 15, 2017)
- Use the Adjusted Margin to Better Assess Profitability (September 15, 2017)
- How much Safety Stock Should be Maintained in Inventory? Part l (October 15, 2017)
- How Much Safety Stock Should be Maintained in Inventory – Part ll (November 15, 2017)
- Should Branch Managers Replenish Stock? (December 15, 2017)
- New Year Inventory Resolutions (January 15, 2018)
- One Product Ranking is Not Enough (February 15, 2018)
- One Product Ranking is Not Enough – Part II (March 15, 2018)
- The Cost of Bad Inventory Control (April 15, 2018)
- Have the Right Person in the Right Job (May 15, 2018)
- Develop Your Material Handling Procedures (June 15, 2018)
- Evaluating Warehouse Technology – Part I (July 15, 2018)
- Evaluating Warehouse Technology – Part II (September 6, 2018)
- Evaluating Warehouse Technology – Part III (September 15, 2018)
- Evaluating Warehouse Technology – Part IV (October 15, 2018)
- Evaluating Warehouse Technology – Part V (November 16, 2018)
- The EIM 12-Step Program (December 16, 2018)
- Determining What Products to Centrally Warehouse – Part 1 (January 15, 2019)
- Determining What Products to Centrally Warehouse – Part 2 (February 15, 2019)
- Make Your Employees Aware of … (March 15, 2019)
- Setting Your Anticipated Lead Time – Part 1 (April 16, 2019)
- Setting Your Anticipated Lead Time – Part 2 (May 17, 2019)
- Protecting Customer Service – Part 1 (June 10, 2019)
- Protecting Customer Service – Part 2 (July 10, 2019)
- Using Residual Inventory Analysis in Fine Tuning Your Safety Stock Quantities (August 5, 2019)
- Fine Tuning Safety Stock Quantities (August 6, 2019)
- Managing the Frequency of Purchase Orders (September 30, 2019)
- Unrealistically Short Order Cycles Lead to Anarchy (October 8, 2019)
- How Much Should You Buy? Part 1 (November 1, 2019)
- How Much You Should Buy – Part II (December 1, 2019)
- Key Metrics to Measure Inventory Management Success – Part 1 (January 1, 2020)
- Key Metrics to Measure Inventory Management Success Inventory Turnover – Part 2 (February 1, 2020)
- Key Metrics to Measure Inventory Management Success Turn Earn Index and GMROI – Part 3 (March 6, 2020)
- Inventory Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Part I (April 1, 2020)
- Inventory Management with the COVID-19 Pandemic – Part 2 (April 15, 2020)
- Inventory Management with COVID-19 Pandemic-Part 3 (May 1, 2020)
- Inventory Management with COVID-19 Pandemic-Part 4 (May 16, 2020)
- Inventory Management with COVID-19 Pandemic-Part 5 (June 2, 2020)
- Inventory Management with the COVID-19 Part 6 (June 16, 2020)
- Inventory Management with COVID-19 Part 7 (July 10, 2020)
- Inventory Management with COVID-19, Part 8 (July 15, 2020)
- Inventory Management with COVID-19, Part 9 (August 8, 2020)
- Inventory Management with COVID-19, Part 10 (August 18, 2020)
- Managing by Exception – Part One (September 1, 2020)
- Managing Inventory by Exception – Part #2 (September 15, 2020)
- Managing by Exception – Part #3 (October 1, 2020)
- Managing By Exception – Part #4 (November 16, 2020)
- A Quick Test for Inventory Accuracy (December 15, 2020)
- Organize Your Warehouse (January 9, 2021)
- Effective Rules for Warehouse Operations (January 30, 2021)
- Effective Warehouse Operations – Best Practices in Receiving (March 4, 2021)
- Effective Warehouse Operations – Best Practices in Putting Away Material (April 5, 2021)
- Shortfall Replenishment (June 1, 2021)
- Avoid Over Buying in Uncertain Times (June 10, 2021)
- Avoid Over Buying During Demand Bubbles (June 10, 2021)
- Buying Before a Vendor Price Increase (July 10, 2021)
- Liquidating Unwanted Inventory (August 5, 2021)
- Dealing with a Chaotic Supply Chain – Part #1 (September 19, 2021)
- Dealing with a Chaotic Supply Chain – Part #2 (October 8, 2021)
- Dealing with a Chaotic Supply Chain – Part #3 (November 3, 2021)
- Dealing with a Chaotic Supply Chain – Part #4 (December 7, 2021)
- 2022: New Year’s Resolutions (January 5, 2022)
- Analyzing Stockouts to Improve Customer Service (February 9, 2022)
- Developing Effective Policies for Stocking Products (March 8, 2022)
- Developing Stocking Rules – Part 2 (April 7, 2022)
- A Problem with Ranking Products (May 10, 2022)
- Meaningful Product Classifications (June 6, 2022)
- Item Rank and Profitability (July 6, 2022)
- Is Your Company Making Money? (August 10, 2022)
- Is Your Company Making Money – Part 2 (September 15, 2022)
- When Your Target Order Requirement Is Not Practical? (October 15, 2022)
- Why Is My Inventory Still Bloated? – Part I (November 15, 2022)
- Why Is My Inventory Still Bloated? – Part II (December 16, 2022)
- Set Minimum and Maximum Stock Quantities Properly (Part 1) (March 15, 2023)
- Set Minimum and Maximum Stock Quantities Properly (Part 2) (April 15, 2023)
- When are You Really Out of Stock? (June 15, 2023)
- Minimizing the Negative Effects of a Forced Inventory Reduction – Part 1 (July 15, 2023)
- Minimizing the Negative Effects of Forced Inventory Reduction – Part #2 (August 15, 2023)
- Optimizing Forced Inventory Reduction – Part #3 (September 15, 2023)
- Planned Excess: How to Manage It (October 15, 2023)
- Don’t Let Your Inventory Become a “Blob” (November 15, 2023)
- Applying “Collaborative Information” to Your Forecast (December 15, 2023)
- How Promotions Should Affect Forecasts (January 16, 2024)
- Inventory Accuracy is Critical to Your Success (February 15, 2024)
- Don’t Round Your Replenishment Parameters – Mod 1 (March 15, 2024)
- How Much of a New Product Do You Buy? (May 15, 2024)
- What is a Stocked Item? (June 16, 2024)
- Thresholds and Ceilings – Mod 1 (July 15, 2024)
- Effectively Managing Returns (August 15, 2024)
- Effectively Investing in Safety Stock (September 15, 2024)
- Understanding How You Rank Products (October 15, 2024)
- Fifteen Steps to Achieving Effective Inventory Management (November 15, 2024)
- Ensure that all Material Movement is Properly Recorded (December 13, 2024)
- Developing and Maintaining Your Approved Stock List (January 15, 2025)
- Determining Whether to Buy or Transfer a Product (February 15, 2025)
- Future Demand of Some Products Cannot be Accurately Forecast (March 16, 2025)
- How Well Can You Predict the Future? (April 15, 2025)
- Making the Best of the Current Environment – Living with Tariffs (May 15, 2025)
- Inventory Control Methods That Drive Operational Excellence (June 10, 2025)
- Reducing Waste with Smart Inventory Optimization Techniques (June 10, 2025)
- Use Anticipated not Average Lead Times (June 15, 2025)
- Top Inventory Management Trends to Watch in 2025 (June 30, 2025)
- How Much Safety Stock Should be Maintained in Inventory? (July 16, 2025)
- How Can an Integrated Inventory Management Solution Enhance Profitability? (July 24, 2025)
- Inventory Cycle Counts Process & Procedures (August 8, 2025)
- Inventory Adjustments and How to Handle Them (August 8, 2025)
- How to Measure Inventory Accuracy (August 8, 2025)
- How to do a Wall-to-Wall Inventory Stock Count (August 8, 2025)
- How to Set Up a Cycle Counting Program (August 8, 2025)
- Annual Physical Inventory Counts (August 8, 2025)
- What Is Inventory Cycle Counting? (August 9, 2025)
- Fine Tuning Your Safety Stock Quantities (August 15, 2025)
- Automated Inventory Management Saves Time and Money, But First Consider Automated Inventory Control! (August 19, 2025)
- Which Inventory Stocking Ideas Boost Efficiency and Reduce Waste? (August 19, 2025)
- How Can Retail Inventory Management Optimize Store Performance? (September 9, 2025)
- Why Use Inventory Data Analytics to Boost Profitability? (September 9, 2025)
- Accurate Order Cycles are Critical to Effective Inventory Management (September 15, 2025)
- Determining the “Best” Quantity of a Product to Buy (October 15, 2025)
- The Right Person in the Right Position (November 15, 2025)
- The Bravado of Artificial Intelligence (December 15, 2025)
- Removing Items from Your Approved Stock List (January 13, 2026)
Pages
- Reservations (April 11, 2017)
- Seminars (April 11, 2017)
- Sample Page (August 10, 2017)
- Current Inventory Situation Analysis (August 11, 2017)
- Operations Analysis/Plan Development (August 11, 2017)
- Customized Program (August 11, 2017)
- Tools and Resources (August 11, 2017)
- Articles (August 11, 2017)
- About EIM (August 11, 2017)
- Contact Us (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 1. What Are You Going To Stock? (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 2. Difference Between Usage, Sales and Disbursements (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 3. Forecasting Items With Recurring Usage (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 4. Identifying & Maintaining Items with Sporadic Usage (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 5. Anticipated Lead Times & Safety Stock (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 6. The Order Cycle, Vendor Offers and The Line Point (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 7. Economic Order Quantity And Other Replenishment Methods (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 8. The Replenishment Process (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 9. Your Investment in Stock Inventory (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 10. Get Your Warehouse In Order (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 11. Effective Warehouse Operations (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 12. Physical Inventory And Cycle Counting (August 11, 2017)
- Chapter 13. Let’s Get Started (August 11, 2017)
- Subscription Content (August 24, 2017)
- Thank You (September 15, 2017)
- Inventory Control Seminar (April 11, 2018)
- Online Store (October 21, 2020)
- Inventory Consulting Services (May 13, 2025)
- Inventory Control (May 19, 2025)
- Inventory Control Management (June 4, 2025)
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