Excess Inventory Hiding Behind the IO Calculation!
When MOQs, pack sizes, or supplier constraints force your order quantity above EOQ (which is probably most SKUs, most of the time), you’re already carrying more cycle stock than the … Read More
Tag: inventory optimization
SAP IBP Heuristic vs Optimizer: Why Defaulting to Heuristic Is Costing Your Supply Chain
Fast planning isn’t smart planning. It’s one of those lessons every supply chain team eventually learns — usually the hard way, in the middle of a constrained quarter when a … Read More
Managing Sales Order Deadlocks
If your company is concurrently experiencing growing backorders and ballooning inventory, you may be impacted by Sales Order Deadlocks. Sales Order Deadlocks occur when you have multiple orders with a … Read More
The Use of The NORMSINV Function In Safety Stock Calculations
There was a question on Linked in about the use of the NORMSINV function in Excel. Initially the poster mentioned the NORMSDIST function. But for safety stock purposes, you … Read More
Inventory Optimization vs. Days on hand
Why is it important to learn new techniques than banking on century old DOH measure? The Days of Supply is a thumb rule calculation used to manage inventory during the … Read More