RSI ANNOUNCES NEWEST CLIENT: SMOKING GOOSE MEATERY!
Right Sized Inventory (RSI) is ecstatic to announce their newest client, Smoking Goose Meatery based in Indianapolis, IN!
Smoking Goose is one of United States leading producers of artisan meat products. As a USDA-inspected production facility, Smoking Goose handcrafts over 40 varieties of smoked + cured meats for retail, mail order, and wholesale for restaurants, hotels, caterers, distributors, and specialty markets across the country.
Smoking Goose has been featured in countless food TV episodes on Food Network, PBS, and NBC as well as every food magazine and website you can name. Bon Appetit has named Smoking Goose one of the best places to buy charcuterie online, while Food & Wine Magazine has named Smoking Goose Founder and Owner Chris Eley one of the Top 20 best food artisans in the country.
When RSI was contacted by Smoking Goose, they were struggling with some of the typical issues facing producers of any products that have long lead times with high demand variability and seasonality. Inventory was out of balance. Being able to predict exactly when to start a new batch of product when the lead time is months long and your demand in a few months will be much different than today is a challenge using standard calculations and formulas.
RSI’s patented approach of inventory optimization incorporating supply and demand variability in a Monte-Carlo simulation of each item has proven to be a great solution for Smoking Goose. In just a few short weeks, the items with a short lead time have seen an increase in service availability and the longer lead time items have just the right amount of “help on the way”. The production floor is seeing far less expedites.
The results of just a few RSI inventory optimization simulations has led Smoking Goose to utilize RSI’s Replenishment Planning module, which takes the standard output of RSI and with a few more pieces of easy to grab information (current work-in-process and open sales) is able to tell Smoking Goose exactly how much to start producing of each item every week.
This has been a game changer for Smoking Goose, as their weekly production planning process has gone from a very frustrating and stressful 3-hour weekly meeting among most of the management team to an RSI inventory simulation performed by one individual! The entire process takes less than an hour in total by that one person, with results that Smoking Goose has learned to be confident in. Seasonality is considered and adjusted in the numbers Smoking Goose receives, ensuring the proper amount is being produced.
Right Sized Inventory is so excited to have Smoking Goose as our newest client. All our clients are very important, but as a company filled with employees that love to eat, we are especially excited to have Smoking Goose on board! We are glad that we are helping them get enough of their product out to all that need to have the best artisan meat products there are!
