Inventory Metrics Tools 
ToolsGroup
JUNE 2, 2023
Suddenly, managing inventory is the name of the game for companies trying to manage working capital and maximize profit while keeping customers happy. And that’s where real-time perpetual inventory signals come in. Plus, accurate inventory information is the key to optimal decision-making.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Is supply chain inventory the problem?
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Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 1, 2021
Promotion Management is defined as optimizing the utilization of tools, strategies, and resources to promote a product that will generate additional demand. Why should we consider Promotion Planning in Inventory Management? Whether it be e-commerce, brick-and-mortar, or both, retail companies care about the inventory they keep.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns. When compared to pre-recession years, we ended the decade with twenty more days of inventory. Days of Inventory Comparison. Now, let’s take consumer products. What can we learn?
ToolsGroup
JANUARY 22, 2020
In my decades of working in replenishment and inventory optimization, I’ve noticed that many companies seek solutions to symptoms rather than the underlying problem. For example, I get many requests for business intelligence (BI) tools; mostly because they want to monitor symptoms. Let’s examine the first: inventory aging reports.
Logility
MAY 22, 2020
The obvious danger of this is that business rules and data governance often don’t exist from department to department or user to user, leaving an overall picture into the health of the business that is foggy because KPIs and metrics do not correlate across the organization. A great example of this comes from a Logility customer.
ToolsGroup
MARCH 1, 2018
Employing machine-learning based forecasting tools, retailers can predict potential sales at the front-end of the assortment planning process. Yet paradoxically retailers front-load inventory to the store, under the belief that goods must be on the shelf to sell. The analogy is pruning a garden. Engineer Profit.
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