Supply chain performance cases

Stocks

Stocks level affects companies’ liquidity, working capital and space requirements.

In this case, we have optimized the inventory level by analyzing and implementing simple control measures with the employees while maintaining the customer service level desired by management.

Supply tasks were reduced and simplified.

Our goal was to maintain the ideal level of raw materials and work in progress to ensure a good flow of the manufacturing and distribution activities.

Client

Customer service is defined by the availability rate of items when ordered by customers.

Here we analyzed the items’ annual demand and seasonality resulting in more items to keep in stock.

We reviewed the security stocks and the economic order quantities to support the customer service objective desired by management.

The purchasing and receiving workloads were reduced as well as the inventory value while significantly improving customer service.

Control

The difference between the registered and measured inventory may cause major headaches if not well controlled.

With the employees, we have analyzed and implemented simple control measures reducing the need for regular physical inventories while generating reliable and accurate data.

By reviewing the process and the measurement tools, we developed a structured framework for inventory control.