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Inventory Management guide 101

In business management inventory consists of a list of goods and materials held available in stock. Management of an inventory or Inventory management is all about handling functions related to the tracking and management of material. This includes the monitoring of material moved into and out of stockroom locations and reconciling the inventory balances, setting targets, providing replenishment techniques, reporting actual and projected inventory status. The task of ABC analysis, lot tracking, cycle counting support etc. can even be a part of inventory management. The primary and foremost step in inventory management is acquiring accurate information for ... read more

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The primary and foremost step in inventory management is acquiring accurate information for inbound operations. The information so gained in advance can be a crucial factor in improving the inbound productivity. Setting up of an advanced inbound strategy and execution framework can be done without too much of re-engineering effort for the supply chain. The perfect way to commence is to make the best use of information available to you and establish a set of rules and regulations to harness the information efficiently.

In order to better your work and progress further you can conduct a survey by asking supply chain executives to name the five most important area for improvement in operations support systems. The outcome of your survey will reflect better inventory planning as one of the target areas. You must pay special heed to establish an effective way to maintain inventory data integrity or setting up higher productivity and capacity utilization. Lack of efficient inventory data integrity can lead to large amount of non-productive labor, underutilized distribution center capacity and diminished customer service levels due to incomplete or late orders.

From past few years distributors were looking forward for a device that can help them control and manage their largest asset, inventory. As a result several computer software companies have developed comprehensive inventory management modules and systems. These fresh packages enable the distributor to effectively manage his warehouse stock.

Tough the software technique is a beneficial aid yet it cannot provide solutions to inventory management problems. In order for the inventory management system to live upto its potential and perform its best, make sure that you follow quite a few basic and extremely significant ways of good inventory management.

To begin with, ensure that your company is protected against theft. There should be no pilferage problem at your place. While ordering, order only the amount of non-stock or special order items that your customer has approved of. If you wish to add an inventory, you must get a purchase commitment from your customer. Make sure that you assign and use bin sites. Establishment and usage of proper bin sites make order picking a hassle free job in your warehouse. Don't ever forget to make an entry of the material leaving your warehouse. Try to get rid of the 'no charge/no paperwork' material swaps. You should charge the product samples to a salesperson account until they are either returned to stock or charged to the customer.

Effective inventory management also requires paper work (picking documents to be filled by the end of the day, entry of every single stock receipt in computer etc.) that is upto the mark, determination of the most beneficial replenishment strategy for each item in each warehouse, setting up some lucrative offers and awards for the buyers, specifying guidelines for setting the reorder method and setting up of an on-going dead stock and excess inventory control program.

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