Category Archives: Inventory Management
The Dirty Little Secrets of the Warehouse Management System Industry
As you evaluate systems to manage your distribution operations, you’ll want to know everything you can to make the search process better. It’s a small project to evaluate, select, and implement a warehouse management system (WMS). These tasks require diligence, [...]
Filed under Free Cases, Inventory Management, Operations, Supply Chain, White Papers
Dealing with Chaos: 4 Steps to Manufacturing Success
Manufacturing today is fraught with uncertainties in the supply chain due to a variety of global issues, including weather and exchange rates. You can counter supply problems with “safety stock.” But this extra inventory goes against the rules of an [...]
Indian IT company fixed the supply chain loop holes of a US based Retail Chain
This cases deals with how an Indian IT company helps a US based Retail Chain to analyze, measure and remove it's supply chain problems. The client had issues with inventory management as well as the service level. So, they wanted [...]
Filed under Inventory Management, Operations, Retail Sector, Supply Chain
Debunking the Top Eight Myths Surrounding Small-business Warehouse Management Systems
The era of manual warehouse operations is drawing to a close—with good reason. No matter how efficient your employees are, managing space and maintaining inventory with adhoc spreadsheets or legacy systems doesn’t provide the accuracy or visibility into the supply [...]
Lean Procurement
DEMAND-DRIVEN SUPPLY CHAINS AND LEAN PROCUREMENT
In today’s demand-driven manufacturing and supply chain world, a company faces growing challenges around market volatility, long lead times and forecasting errors. The inventory management decisions can make or break the firm’s financial bottom line. [...]
Distribution Management for spare parts- solving the problem with fluctuating demand
A general purpose of this thesis can be defined as to examine and evaluate the possibilities to solve the problem with fluctuating demand on spare parts from the local sales subsidiaries in the three big markets in Europe. A secondary, [...]
Collaborative materials management : A choosing between competitive and collaborative approaches to materials management in SCM
Supply Chain Management (SCM) presents the new paradigm in strategic and operational business management for the 21st century. By offering a cooperative and integrated model of the value-creation process in a cross-organizational perspective, it also places new challenges on business [...]
Inventory Management at Pearl Polymers Limited
Pearl Polymers Limited (PPL) is one of the most distinguished and reputed manufacturer and exporter of all types of PET (PolyEthylene Terephthalate), containers and bottles in India. The products are marketed under the renowned brand name of "PEARLPET". Realizing the [...]
Filed under Inventory Management, Operations
Zara Clothing : Setting Standards in Inventory Management
The middle aged mother buys cloths at Zara because they are cheap, while her daughter in the mid 20s buys Zara clothing because it is fashionable. Zara has truly been a case study that is setting benchmarks in the retail [...]
Inventory Management at McDonald
McDonald's sets an example of a successful implementation of a JIT system wherein it doesn't begin to cook its orders until a customer has placed an order ... click here to read ahead
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