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This document presents a Best Practice overview for supply Management in a long lead time Global Supply Chain.

Rather than force you into a mold, RockySoft chose to develop on-the-fly flexibility to view and analyze both monthly and weekly forecasting.

Worst practices and how to fix them: Every distributor and manufacturer can find ways to optimize processes.

Commonly accepted safety stocking methods usually assume that departures from planned (forecasted) demand are approximately normally distributed.

This report is a vital mid-market companion piece to the Aberdeen Report "The Technology Strategies for Inventory Management Benchmark Report – How to Convert Inventory from Cost to a Competitive Advantage”. (*this piece can be read without prior knowledge of the Aberdeen Report)

Distributors make money by selling inventory. But many, if not most distributors experience “challenges” in managing what is probably their largest investment.

It is no secret that an accurate forecast of the future demand of a product is crucial in achieving the four "rights" of effective inventory management: that is, getting the right quantity of the right item to the right location at the right time.

Out-of-stock reports are, in fact, "gotcha" reports: They inform a buyer of a problem that already exists. Wouldn't it be better if a computer system warned a buyer of an impending crisis?

In this article we’re going to look at how the material you have in stock relates to these goals: that is, how it is helping you meet your customers’ expectations of availability while contributing positively to your company’s bottom line.

In this article we’ll look at three of the concepts of lean manufacturing and how they can help distributors maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations.

Organizations can take two different approached with regard to inventory. Following the active inventory management strategy helps create world class lean inventory.

This article will discuss the result of a study conducted in 1998 by a large vertically integrated electronics manufacturer to understand the causes and contributing factors that create demand signal amplification in a supply chain.