Thursday, August 21, 2008

Goal of Effective Inventory Management

The goal of effective inventory management – that is, to meet or exceed customers' expectations of product availability while maximizing the organization's net profits or minimizing its inventory related costs.One of our primary areas of concentration has been the improvement of future predictions of product sales or usage, otherwise known as "demand forecasts." the accuracy of any demand forecast is dependent on the "goodness" of your sales or usage history. Does this data truly reflect what would have been sold or used under "normal" circumstances?
Many software packages identify possible unusual usage at the end of each week, month, or other inventory period. The simplest of these systems compare usage in the month just completed to the total usage recorded over the previous "x" months, or inform you if you were out of stock for more than "y" days. More advanced systems bring to the attention of a buyer significant differences between the demand forecast and actual sales or usage recorded during the inventory period just completed. A common feature of both methods is a belief that usage history has been recorded correctly.

3 comments:

cstoreoffice1 said...

Manage of stock , stock quantities and record keeping these three are the main goals form effective management and for the effective inventory you have to use retail Inventory management !

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