Category: Safety Stock

How will Big Data change the way we work and approach the world?

Is it possible to use a company's public financial data to strategically benchmark inventory? Bram answers this in the two part conclusion to his 'Inventory Benchmarking’ blog series.

Is it possible to use a company's public financial data to strategically benchmark inventory? Bram answers this in the two part conclusion to his 'Inventory Benchmarking’ blog series.

In this post we talk about how to align the Supply Chain Triangle with your business strategy and the three types of leader strategies observed by Treacy and Wiersema: Product Leaders, Opex Leaders, and Customer Intimacy Leaders.

In many companies we see a lack of alignment between the three corners of the Supply Chain Triangle, so let's take the triangle into three dimensions and explain the concept of the “best practice frontier”.

What will the Supply Chain be like in the year 2020? In the evolution of supply chain, people, process and technologies must be aligned correctly to achieve maximum results, and leaders must connect the dots to ensure supply chain becomes more market driven.

The benefits of a multi-echelon approach to inventory are always convincing. So then why is multi-echelon inventory adaption so slow to catch-on? Dr. Bram Desmet explores single-echelon vs. multi-echelon inventory approaches, and some of the reasons behind the slow rate of multi-echelon inventory adoption.

In one of my previous posts, I wrote about using coefficient of variation (CV) as a predictor of forecastability. In...

Last post, I discussed in some detail the concept of cycle service level and how it works in the retail...

Most businesses would put high customer service as one of their top business priorities. While there are many different things...

In the simplest inventory situation, the only variability is in the quantity of demand for a single day.  There is...