Kinaxis

JUNE 15, 2015

by Andrew Dunbar So you’re an inventory manager, and your CFO just asked you to reduce inventory by 10% before year end to free up some capital for next year’s big investment in R&D. But then you look at historical trends and see that lately, your inventory has been growing by 3% each quarter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. To understand the magnitude of the shifts, I encourage you to glance through the industry sector averages outlined in Table 1.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 29, 2015

by Andrew Dunbar The modern day inventory manager described in this series is the backbone of your company’s inventory planning process. She has a strong understanding of supply chain fundamentals and is an expert at controlling the key levers impacting the inventory company’s investment in inventory.

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Kinaxis

JULY 23, 2015

by Andrew Dunbar This post concludes my inventory management blog series. Throughout this series I’ve proposed an elevated role for the inventory manager that challenges the assumption that an inventory manager is a victim of his colleagues’ business decisions and plays only a limited role in formulating inventory results.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In this blog, we’ll delve into the integrated Lean Six Sigma approach, exploring its benefits, deployment models, moreover the implications for SMEs. – Operational improvements (reduction of lead time, increase in productivity, and reduction in work-in-process inventory, etc.). – Comparatively simple deployment tools.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 10, 2022

Dave Bergeson, Vice President of client relations at the Association Management Center, explains why Eisenhower felt as he did. Joe Bellini, Executive Vice President of Product Management & Marketing at One Network, observes, “In supply chain management, we do our best to develop executable plans. ”[2].

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Kinaxis

JUNE 22, 2015

by Andrew Dunbar Over the last several weeks, this blog series on Inventory Management has explored the objectives and roles of inventory managers and outlined several of the improvement levers available to them. So, what do you need to measure to manage your inventory ?

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