Distributors make money by selling inventory. But many, if not most distributors experience “challenges” in managing what is probably their largest investment. They have excess inventory of some items while experiencing stock outs of other items. The mission of Effective Inventory Management, Inc. (EIM) is to help organizations achieve the goal of effective inventory management:

“Effective inventory management allows a distributor to meet or exceed customers’ expectations of product availability with the amount of each item that will maximize the distributor’s net profits.”