An executive-level strategic guide to maximizing financial, service, and operations performance using the proven RightStock model of inventory management In most organizations, highly qualified professionals are required to respond to a barrage of typically uncoordinated initiatives from across the organization. Those initiatives normally include increasing SKUs, customization, and inventory availability while reducing customer response times, transportation costs, purchase costs, and manufacturing costs. Inventory Strategy arms them with a strategy for easily achieving this otherwise…mehr
An executive-level strategic guide to maximizing financial, service, and operations performance using the proven RightStock model of inventory management In most organizations, highly qualified professionals are required to respond to a barrage of typically uncoordinated initiatives from across the organization. Those initiatives normally include increasing SKUs, customization, and inventory availability while reducing customer response times, transportation costs, purchase costs, and manufacturing costs. Inventory Strategy arms them with a strategy for easily achieving this otherwise impossible task by presenting a proven, fact-based, balanced, and logical means of determining the proper role and level of inventory in supply chain strategy.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Edward Frazelle is the founding Director of The Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech. The Logistics Institute is the world's largest center for logistics education and research. As an educator, Dr. Frazelle has trained more than 20,000 professionals in the principles of world-class logistics. As a consultant he has assisted more than 100 corporations and government agencies in their pursuit of world-class logistics. As an author, he has authored, co-authored, or contributed to seven books and over twenty articles on logistics. Dr. Frazelle's achievements have been recognized by the Council of Logistics Management's Doctoral Research Grant, The Warehousing Education and Research Council's Burr Hupp Fellowship, the Material Handling Institute's MHEF Fellowship, the Institute of Industrial Engineer's Armstrong Award, and Kodak's Educational Grant Award. Dr. Frazelle has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology.
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List of Figures ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 What's the Problem? 2 1.2 More or Less 6 1.3 Optimization 10 1.4 To(o) Lean or Not To(o) Lean? 17 1.5 The Inventory Journey 18 CHAPTER TWO INVENTORY FUNDAMENTALS 19 2.1 Inventory Integrity 20 2.2 Inventory Philosophies 22 2.3 Inventory Types 23 2.4 Out of Stock Conditions 43 2.5 Planning Parameters 44 2.6 Financial Terms 47 2.7 Demand Terms 58 2.8 Decision Variables 60 2.9 Inventory Interdependencies 65 CHAPTER THREE INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION 67 3.1 RightSKUs: SKU Optimization 69 3.2 RightCast: Forecast Optimization 80 3.3 RightTimes: Lead Time Optimization 84 3.4 RightLots: Lot Size Optimization 90 3.5 RightPloy: Inventory Deployment Optimization 95 3.6 RightSight: Inventory Visibility Optimization 100 3.7 RightRate: Inventory Carrying Rate Optimization 103 3.8 RightStock: Inventory Optimization 106 CHAPTER FOUR INVENTORY IN SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY 109 4.1 Inventory and Logistics 110 4.2 Inventory and Customer Service 115 4.3 Inventory and Inventory 120 4.4 Inventory and Supply 120 4.5 Inventory and Transportation 124 4.6 Inventory and Warehousing 131 4.7 Inventory and the Supply Chain 135 4.8 Beyond S&OP 139 Glossary 147 Index 155