INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SIMPLIFIED
- techniques to Increase Availability & Reduce Investment

8:30am to 12:00pm, March 19, 2003, Rm. 527-528, Podium 4 Level 5, RCBC Plaza Makati City

Objectives
Do you want your business to become World Class and prosper through this millennium?
Do you want to deliver improved levels of service to your Customers?
But without significant increases in inventory investment?
Do you want to reduce the risk of left-over & obsolete stock by having just the right amount of inventory?

This seminar will assist you in answering YES! to these questions, and provide examples of practical, easy-to-implement techniques to manage your inventory.
Inventory Management is a Balancing Act – the competing demands of Sales and Manufacturing for more stock and more production, balanced against the business Financial constraints and the Supply Chain objective to ensure that it is always the right stock that is available!
This half-day program is designed to take the mystery out of Inventory Management and provide Senior Managers from all Business functions with clear understanding of the concepts, plus some concise, impactful techniques.

Course Content
  Inventory Management – Objectives & Benefits, Types of Inventory, Ownership, Inventory Management Maturity
  Customer-Driven Inventory Process – Locations, Range, Categories, Service Level Targets etc
  Proven Inventory Management Techniques – Safety Stocks, ROP, Push v. Pull, JIT etc
  Inventory Reduction – where to start?
Who Should Attend
  Directors & General Managers looking for some clear and proven processes to drive significant improvements in Customer Service and reductions in Working Capital
  Logistics/Supply Chain & Inventory Managers who have responsibility for managing the Balance between too much, and not enough, of the right stock
  Other Functional managers whose support is very important to meeting the organization’s inventory management objectives, eg Sales, Marketing, Production, Finance
What will you gain?
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Gain keen awareness and understanding of the impact of systematic approach to Inventory Management
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Learn different ways to measure Inventory Management Results, and which method should be used in what circumstances
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Learn proven techniques to maximize inventory availability, whilst also reducing inventory
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Identify methods to obtain some quick wins in inventory reduction