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TRANSFORMING INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
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WHITEPAPERS Effective Inventory Management - Great Plains and RockySoft "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." ‘The superior set of features included in RockySoft´s Inventory Management Suite enhances Microsoft´s Great Plains software to provide you with a "state of the art" inventory management tool set. A methodical, comprehensive plan of best practice policies and procedures along with this software will lead to success and reduce the "heartburn" associated with an inventory that is out of control.’ Learn more about how an active inventory management strategy drives to world-class lean inventory in the Microsoft Great Plains environment. Request whitepaper Microsoft´s Distribution Inventory Management Series This series of Microsoft Business Solutions White Papers was authored by Jon Schreibfeder as a general guide for distributors faced with the challenges of inventory management. Pulling from his more than 20 years of experience, Jon, president of Effective Inventory Management Inc, has helped over 1,000 companies improve their productivity and profitability through better inventory management. In addition to the six general white papers of this series, Jon also evaluated the RockySoft solution and wrote a seventh installment - the only product focused guide ' for this series: Effective Inventory Management - Great Plains and RockySoft. The following white paper links are available from www.microsoft.com/Business Solutions Paper 1: The First Steps to Achieving Effective Inventory Control Paper 2: Keeping Stock Balances Accurate Paper 3: Improving the Accuracy of Your Forecasts Paper 4: Effective Replenishment Parameters Paper 5: Maintaining Stock in Branch Locations Paper 6: Inventory Metrics Request whitepaper: Achieving Effective Inventory Management with Great Plains and RockySoft 
Achieving Lean Distribution Lean manufacturing is helping producers throughout the world reduce inventories, lower labor costs, and increase their overall efficiencies. The same concepts embraced by lean manufacturing practitioners can help distributors achieve the goal of effective inventory management. We will outline three major concepts of lean manufacturing and how they can help distributors maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations. Request whitepaper Six Steps to Effective Inventory Management There are two different approaches organizations can make with regard to inventory. They can assume it is just a necessary evil and inject a special inventory reduction program whenever cash gets tight. Or they can make strategic decisions on the level to carry, put an inventory management process in place to actively manage inventory and continually improve the business results. We believe this active inventory management strategy drives to world-class lean inventory. Request whitepaper Are You Making Money? Are you in business to make money? Do you stock material to meet customer´s expectations? If so, this article may be just what you are looking for. In this article were 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 companys bottom line. Request whitepaper Do You Have an Early Warning System? Most computer systems provide buyers with out-of-stock reports. These are listings of stocked products with no available inventory. Because the stock-out sales orders cannot be filled, salespeople cannot provide the service their customers expect. Buyers scramble to obtain inventory to prevent the "crisis" of the out-of-stock situation from becoming the "catastrophe" of losing those valuable customers. 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? That is the goal of an "early warning system." Request whitepaper Is It Sporadic or Is It Seasonal? 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. As weve discussed in previous articles, products with different patterns of usage require different forecasting methods. The forecast for items with recurring usage is usually based on four elements; these four elements will be explored in this article. Request whitepaper Taming the Bullwhip This whitepaper is 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. Request whitepaper BACK TO TOP |
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