the journey
LEADING YOU ON A JOURNEY TO UNRIVALED RESULTS
Let's be bold! You are probably performing well on the items where you have assigned profiles. Let us show you how well, and then let's roll out great profiles on B & C movers, New Items and yes even slow movers. We will go beyond the basics.
Let the hidden sectors suddenly show you what you have been missing and start to treat your inventory investment as a truly complex portfolio.
You have heard that Exceptions are a large % of success, so let's create custom views for Period-End and In-Period,
with special focus on New Items, Manual Forecasts, Seasonal, Slow Movers and more
with special focus on New Items, Manual Forecasts, Seasonal, Slow Movers and more
Let's stop accepting a free pass on New Items. With the proper tools and approach, you can achieve the same great results on New Items as on other sectors. Use the 3X Method. If New Items are 5% of your item mix, they should be 15% of your time!
Yes, it is finally here for you. No longer blind, you will see your history and live with a current Lead Time Forecast.
Now that we have the data and are forecasting LTs let's find the patterns. Many of these patterns will be from trends within our own receiving. Similar to the Inventory Sectors, let's highlight LT Sectors
Perhaps the final step to LT excellence. You have LT seaonality. Some is based on your suppliers, some based on your DCs, and some based on the trucking industry and the weather. Either way, let's find the seasonality and prepare for it.
LEADING YOU ON A JOURNEY TO UNRIVALED RESULTS
This is where the economics of your system kick-in. Where are you not capitalizing on unique handling and carrying costs or allowing old traditions to rule the buying? In this Journey, we analyze the multiple opportunities available to keep the buying flowing smoothlly and challenge the inefficient buying habits of the past.
What are the common pitfalls that I should avoid when using the Sub an Super Vendors? Are we optimizing our trucks, our buyers, and operations? In this Journey, we go under the microscope to see what opportunities await.
Let’s take a deep dive into the system economics all the way down to the item level to analyze the buying patterns. On this Journey, we look across sectors to understand where your inventory dollars exist by the item’s effective order cycle and the resulting $ impact.
A total strategy / Every item set to the right multiple, with a Convenience pack if available, adjusting automatically each period to forecast changes and upcoming seasons.
Yes, that’s right, we said service by Net Margin. This Journey takes us down the road of profitability and setting service by the unlikely, but very likely Net Margin %. Scooping up these items that can often be missed in a traditional analysis is key to yet again, keeping your image in tact.
In this Journey, we pull back the covers on your slow moving business sectors to identify unique ways to manage this often mismanaged area.
LEADING YOU ON A JOURNEY TO UNRIVALED RESULTS
How are you doing in this area? Along this Journey, we dive into the business sectors where you are experiencing the most pain from a $ and % angle. We also identify a 10 step action plan implemented by many who have successfully gone down this path before.
This is a bold and brave Journey that uncovers the areas where you are adding your unnecessary expertise to buy more. We also explore the opportunities you have to tell the truth in your components of buying.
There could be an entire company devoted to this area! In this Journey, we explore the depths of dollars that are available to you and challenge your traditional method of thinking about investment inventory. This Journey also explores what you own in investment buy inventory.
Do you have a multi-location environment? Do you have overstock in one location that fill the need in another location? This Journey spells out the overstock opportunities that can be utilized to fill needs in another location.
Let’s be honest—again. We often tie this two together, but they are truly worlds apart. Is your stock status as clean as it should be? Are you considering all of your components of balance? How about your demand—Is it coming from the correct place? Do you stock transfer as a rule? This Journey takes us on a ride of exploration in these key areas which make up the foundation of your system.
How did this period look compared to last? Did you have more exceptions or less? Were they completed when they needed to be completed? Who did the best? Who could use help? This Journey dives into the key and more elaborate exceptions that help you get a grasp on your business.
How did this period look compared to last? Did you have more exceptions or less? Were they completed when they needed to be completed? Who did the best? Who could use help? This Journey dives into the key and more elaborate exceptions that help you get a grasp on your business.
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