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Inventory Deployment Strategy
What Is It?
Chainalytics' Inventory Deployment Strategy services can help you effectively position finished goods and aftermarket parts inventory across the supply chain by determining optimal stocking locations for each item. Our quantitative analysis determines whether or not to stock, how much to stock at what location, and where to source from, while meeting your customer's service level and response time expectations at the lowest total cost. We help our clients to position inventory, consider unique delivery alternatives with different service times and costs, and revisit the flow of products through their distribution network structure.
What Do We Do?
Chainalytics' Inventory Deployment Strategy service takes a "total cost to serve" approach -- tapping into a larger potential for working capital, operational cost reduction and service performance improvement by considering: variable handling costs, inventory carrying cost, inbound and outbound transportation costs, and backorder, stock-out and lost-sales penalties. Our service enables you to:
- Develop a product level deployment plan and inventory strategy under different supply chain network configuration scenarios.
- Understand the product characteristics that drive centralized stocking vs. full-service stocking locations.
- Evaluate the potential benefit of reduction in inventory investment and required storage space through inventory pooling options.
- Develop tactics enabling planned inventory repositioning/rebalancing.
Chainalytics Inventory Deployment Strategy service can either be executed individually or in conjunction with one or more complementary services: Inventory Policy Development and Service Level Analytics. When executed together, these services determine what and where to stock, how much to stock, how frequently to replenish, how frequently to review, and what level of service to provide for each product. When executed alone, Chainalytics Inventory Deployment Strategy determines where and how to stock.
Can Chainalytics Inventory Deployment Strategy help you reduce your supply chain operating and working capital investment costs or improve service levels? Do you find yourself asking the following questions?
- Where and how should I stock to meet my customer service requirements and minimize stock-outs?
- Should I stock or my supplier stock an item?
- Should I stock the full assortment of my items at all my locations?
- Should I use a postponement strategy? Where along my production - distribution supply chain can I keep inventory at semi-finished form and still meet response time expectations?
- Where should I use a multi-echelon stocking strategy?
Is It Right For You?
You are an ideal candidate for Chainalytics Inventory Deployment Strategy services if your company has a multi-location distribution network with a sizable portfolio of products that contain a mix of fast-slow moving and high-low value product that is looking to:
- Reduce operating and / or working capital investment costs without sacrificing service level commitments.
- Reduce or eliminate expediting costs and service contract penalties due to stock-outs.
- Be more responsive to your customers while lowering inventory investments through the adoption of postponement strategies
- Reduce/eliminate use of overflow storage locations and strain on primary locations.
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