Featuring Our 10 Best Inventory Management Articles! - Supply Chain Game Changer™

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Inventory is often the single largest asset in most companies across any industry. It consumes a lot of cash, impacts return on investment and profitability, enables or impedes growth and customer satisfaction, and requires a tremendous amount of resource to manage it. Inventory Management is critical.

Vendar se veliko podjetij, velikih in majhnih, znanih in novoustanovljenih podjetij, trudi učinkovito upravljati zaloge.

V tem "Featuring” series article we are putting the spotlight on Inventory Management. We are presenting our Top 10 Inventory Management articles with techniques and approaches which will have something for everyone to learn from and apply in their own situation.

1. Preboj v prometu zalog … Vrnite se k osnovam!

Vedno me presenetijo ljudje, ki verjamejo, da potrebujete zelo sofisticirane in zapletene sisteme in procese, da bi izboljšali promet zalog.

In our experience it is most important to go back to the basics. Think about the very basic business processes that are involved in Inventory Management: which processes control the rate at which you move inventory into your business, through your business, and out of your business.

Keep it simple! We’ve achieved industry leading results using this approach.

2. Do You Want Inventory Turnover Breakthrough? Define and Manage the Levers!

V povezavi z našim člankom o »Vrnitvi k osnovam« je pomembno, da preslikamo naše najučinkovitejše procese, ki nadzorujejo stopnjo pretoka zalog v vaše podjetje, skozi njega in iz njega.

Pick a few key business processes defined that will have the greatest impact on Inventory turnover and choose to improve those specifically. Often people either pick only one business process to improve or they pick far too many processes to improve.

Ko definirate to omejeno število procesov z visokim vzvodom, imate obvladljiv obseg za doseganje največjega učinka pri upravljanju zalog.

3. Dvojni promet zalog v 9 mesecih!

I joined a Supply Chain services company that had logistics and distribution as its core offering. Much to my surprise the inventory turnover level was only around 7 times a year, which is not very impressive if you are telling your customers how great you are at Supply Chain.

Z uporabo načel in pristopov, o katerih smo razpravljali v drugih člankih, smo se lotili izboljšave Inventory Management procesov in rezultatov.

Within 9 months we had doubled the Inventory turnover in the company moving it from being an industry laggard to being an industry leaders. Read about our journey and how we achieved these results.

4. Achieve Breakthrough Results! Go From Worst to First!

The company had perennial had the worst Inventory turnover performance in the Industry. But the Board had enough and charged my Boss with getting this back in line quickly.

My Boss asked me to step in and take on this challenge. I had seen a lot of my predecessors try this and fail. So I needed to take a different approach.

Z uporabo tehnik in pristopov, o katerih smo razpravljali drugje, smo začeli to pot, ki je privedla do tega, da je podjetje vodilno v panogi na področju prometa zalog le 9 mesecev po začetku projekta.

5. World Class Inventory Turnover Breakthrough Elements! (Infographic)

There are many different approaches that people take to tackle Inventory Management. Based on our experiences we felt that it was important to share the elements of effective Inventory Management approaches that we’ve used to great effect.

We captured this approach in an Infographic. As with anything it is a reflection of our successes, failures and learnings across many organizations, industries, cultures and geographies.

6. Part Shortages? What is Your Supply Line Strategy?

Stereotipna dilema upravljanja zalog je, da imate preveč napačnih delov in premalo pravih delov.

In particular Part Shortages can bring your company to its knees. Shortages will stop your manufacturing lines, impede your retail and online sales, and cost you customers, profit and business growth.

Če imate strategijo za obvladovanje pomanjkanja materiala, boste naredili čudeže pri preprečevanju ali ublažitvi vpliva teh težav in ohranjanju vaše sposobnosti za zagotavljanje izjemne učinkovitosti zalog.

7. Izpovedi dragega ekspediterja!

A key element of any part shortage mitigation strategy has to be having a Supply Line recovery process. Anyone in Supply Chain knows that this means having resources and processes for the expediting the supply of parts.

Ker smo porabili veliko časa in energije za pospeševanje pomanjkanja delov, smo menili, da je najbolj primerno deliti te izkušnje v dobro vseh.

Hitro, učinkovito in uspešno odpravljanje pomanjkanja delov bo vaše načrte za upravljanje zalog vrnilo na pravo pot z minimalnim vplivom.

8. 4 izzivi pri zagonu in vzdrževanju poslovnega procesa SIOP (S&OP)!

Eden od ključnih vidikov učinkovitega upravljanja zalog je visoko integriran poslovni proces SIOP (načrtovanje prodaje, zalog in operacij) ali S&OP.

If you don’t have a SIOP business process in place you will face many obstacles and hurdles in getting it started. And even if you have a SIOP business process that is being used it can be just as difficult in keeping it going.

Naš članek govori o zelo resničnih izzivih, ki jih morate prepoznati in premagati na vaši poti upravljanja ne le zalog, temveč celotnega poslovnega delovanja.

9. Uporaba Lean za upravljanje zalog

Most of use have heard of, if not been involved in, Lean process improvement programs. Typically associated with improving manufacturing processes Lean is also applicable for Inventory Management.

Ta gostujoči članek iz Veridiana je odlična razprava o tem, kako uporabljati program Lean za upravljanje zalog.

10. Solving the Out of Stock Problem! (Infographic)

Having worked in Retail I know how quickly everyone gets upset, from the CEO on down, when a store is out of stock of a particular item. While forecasting, fulfillment and replenishment are not exact sciences there is often no to little understanding of this complexity outside of Supply Chain.

Ta infografika podjetja 2flow obravnava ukrepe, ki jih je treba sprejeti za zmanjšanje zalog v maloprodajnih in drugih okoljih.