Inventory Optimization

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Segmenting Your Inventory by Gross Margin and Demand Variability-image
8 June 2018

Segmenting Your Inventory by Gross Margin and Demand Variability

Segmenting Your Inventory by Gross Margin and...

Gartner Research analyst Paul Lord has developed a thought-provoking approach (shown in the below diagram) for tailoring supply...
Four Ways Inventory Optimization Can Address Tighter Supply Constraints-image
8 May 2018

Four Ways Inventory Optimization Can Address Tighter Supply Constraints

Four Ways Inventory Optimization Can Address Tighter...

As the (U.S.) economic expansion enters its ninth year, supply constraints are showing up in supply chains. The...
Transforming the Manufacturing Supply Chain with MEIO-image
3 April 2018

Transforming the Manufacturing Supply Chain with MEIO

Transforming the Manufacturing Supply Chain with MEIO

Editor’s Note: Last year ToolsGroup became Microsoft’s partner for Multi-echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) in Industrial accounts. Microsoft’s Bill...
Three Key Themes in the New Inventory Optimization Vendor Ranking-image
20 March 2018

Three Key Themes in the New Inventory Optimization Vendor Ranking

Three Key Themes in the New Inventory...

The 2018 Nucleus Research Inventory Optimization (IO) Value Matrix Report has just been released, and analyst Seth Lippincott...
Segmenting Your Spare Parts Supply Chain for 3D Printing-image
13 March 2018

Segmenting Your Spare Parts Supply Chain for 3D Printing

Segmenting Your Spare Parts Supply Chain for...

From warehouse robots (very real) to equipment that you control with your mind (in the labs), new technologies appear so regularly that...
Three New Ways Retailers Can Improve Inventory Performance-image
1 March 2018

Three New Ways Retailers Can Improve Inventory Performance

Three New Ways Retailers Can Improve Inventory...

Many retailers consider competing against Amazon their biggest challenge. While the impact of Amazon is real, it is only...
Why You Should Modernize Your Spare Parts Planning-image
23 January 2018

Why You Should Modernize Your Spare Parts Planning

Why You Should Modernize Your Spare Parts...

There’s untapped cash and profits in your spare parts business. Aftermarket parts is a big net margin producer for...
What’s Wrong with Strategic Network Design?-image
14 November 2017

What’s Wrong with Strategic Network Design?

What’s Wrong with Strategic Network Design?

The problem with strategic network design is when it accounts for service time but not service level. That is, it accounts for...
Inventory Can Be Scary-image
31 October 2017

Inventory Can Be Scary

Inventory Can Be Scary

“Your inventory problem is scary because you’re selling out before you can make new items to meet demand”....
The Best Way to Set Inventory Targets?-image
1 August 2017

The Best Way to Set Inventory Targets?

The Best Way to Set Inventory Targets?

Gartner’s insights are quite good and it’s not often that I disagree, but on the topic of setting...