Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment

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What will it take to transform your complex supply chain into a more demand-driven supply chain network, especially in the current turbulent economy? How can your business leverage inventory optimization to reduce not just inventory carrying costs but also waste and working capital? Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment presents the fundamentals of inventory optimization to help you as a prac-titioner attain a demand-driven supply chain, revealing why today's inventory systems don't make the most of their supply chain and how faulty replenishment processes can lead to wasted time and effort. Drawing on his many years of experience and well-recognized expertise in the supply chain field, author Robert Davis offers the definitive look at demand-driven inventory optimization and replenishment, from a review of the most basic inventory management concepts to the more advanced, such as multi-echelon inventory management. Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment includes insightful guidance, helpful suggestions, and practical examples, exploring: * How optimized inventory and replenishment can help overcome in-system weaknesses and deliver results * A historical view of the three major supply chain efforts of the last thirty years * The path to demand-driven supply * Making the shift from supply-driven to demand-driven methodologies * Creating islands of efficiency * Achieving timely and accurate responses to customer demand * Moving the focus away from "fast" replenishment to having the right inventory * How inventory optimization improves the ERP systems * The good, the bad, and the best of "proof of value" engagements * How inventory optimization works in the real world * Changing the playing field Read Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment to prepare your business to become even more demand-driven.
Use demand driven optimized inventory and replenishment to overcome your supply chain weaknesses, and deliver business-maximizing results Reviewing the fundamentals of inventory optimization so that you can attain a demand-driven supply, Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment provides a business look at why present inventory systems sub-optimize the supply chain and faulty replenishment processes lead to wasted time and effort. Straightforward and clearly written, this book allows readers to come away with a good understanding of why optimized inventory and replenishment helps overcome in-system weaknesses and deliver results. * Discusses how multi-echelon inventory optimization and replenishment enables installed systems to go from a sequential, "islands of efficiency" approach to a systematic distribution system working as a complete network * Provides case studies throughout * Reveals how optimized inventory and replenishment delivers results across industry verticals With a historical view of the three major supply chain efforts of the last thirty years, this book discusses mathematical shortcuts set up in the transitional and supply chain management systems that make it very difficult for companies to attain supply chain excellence.

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