First steps to achieving effective inventory management. this webcast focuses on:
  • Different departments roles in achieving effective inventory management
  • Deciding what products you should stock in each branch or warehouse
  • Ranking products by cost of goods sold, activity and profitability
  • Differences in maintaining items with recurring and sporadic usage
  • Elements of an accurate forecast
  • Considerations for stocking new products

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Improving Forecast Accuracy This webcast focuses on:
  • How to properly calculate the accuracy of your demand forecasts
  • The different “elements of a good demand forecast
  • How different patterns of usage require different forecasting formulas
  • Characteristics of products that cannot be forecast
  • How to utilize information from the market, salespeople and customers in developing an accurate demand forecast

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Effective Replenishment Parameters This webcast focuses on:
  • Minimum Quantities
  • Maximum Quantities
  • Anticipated Lead Times
  • Order/Review Cycles
  • Safety Stock Quantities
  • Economic Order Quantities

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Maintaining Stock in Branch Locations This webcast focuses on:
  • Developing a unique list of stocked products for each location
  • The advantages and disadvantages of replenishing a branch location's stock:
    • Directly from a vendor
    • As needed from a central warehouse or distribution center
    • Splitting a single shipment between several warehouses or stores
  • How often should you replenish stock in a branch location?
  • Maintaining common safety stock quantities to serve the needs of several warehouses or stores

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Effectively Analyzing Your Inventory Investment This webcast focuses on:
  • Turnover
  • Fill Rate/Customer Service
  • Turn/Earn Index
  • Gross Margin Return on Investment
  • Percentages of Outdated Stock, Excess Inventory and Non Moving Products
  • Tying together sales, inventory and operations management
  • Setting incremental and ultimate inventory related goals
  • Comparing your results to other firms in your industry

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Maintaining an Accurate Inventory This webcast focuses on:
  • Making sure all employees realize the cost of bad inventory control
  • Ensuring that all material movement is properly recorded
  • Creating your inventory related policies and procedures guide
  • Identifying and preventing pilferage and other inventory abuse
  • The advantages of cycle counting – Counting part of your inventory every day
  • Conducting a successful full physical inventory

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