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Welcome to the Smoke Show
What happens when you combine delicious slow cured and smoked meats with expert supply chain management and inventory support? A business that is truly on fire! Smoking Goose brings meat, salumi, and sausages prepared with “old world craft and new world flavor” from their home in Indianapolis. Chris Eley, founder and owner of Smoking Goose opened up shop in 2010.
Our Mission and the Characteristics of the Clients we Support
Right Sized Inventory has been around for over seven years. Our company’s mission is to provide the best inventory-optimization tool on the market that every company can afford. We are proud to say we are delivering on that vision!
RSI and Gartner 5 Pilot Models
New, commercially available supply chain planning technology is an ever-expanding market. This includes Right Sized Inventory’s (RSI) predictive analytics model for item-by-item inventory optimization. Is RSI right for you? How do you ‘try before you buy’?
Are you a small company who struggles with overwhelming contractual demands of big businesses? You’re not alone!
With the size and complexity of organizations today, companies are constantly relying on each other to complete their respective projects. Whether you're a small business or a large business, they both need each other equally in order to get the work done. When working with big businesses (aka "the client"), we often find that many times they make unreasonable demands of us when it comes to our contracts and agreements.
Proven Success: How Right Sized Inventory can Save your Business Money
When your company is in the process of evaluating new partners, it's important to ensure they have a track record of success. Therefore, let us provide you just one of many examples of how we deliver value to our clients. Recently, Right Sized Inventory onboarded a new client. Within the first four weeks of rolling out our patented predictive analytics inventory optimization technology into their supply chain we were able to demonstrate $2M in savings. With that kind of ROI, you can be confident you're working with the right partner.
Lessons The Pandemic Taught The Supply Chain
As a planner, you know you need to learn from the past. This is so you can improve future planning and supply chains. One of the most useful things to learn from is customer demand data from previous COVID-19 waves. Does your inventory planning system allow you to use this demand data to run what-if scenarios? If not, you may want to consider another system.
The COVID-19 demand data collected from the initial waves of the virus gives us an opportunity to learn about key drivers of demand for specific product categories in specific location. We can learn where forecasts went wrong and use this information to improve future planning for the next waves of COVID-19 (e.g. Delta Variant). Any learnings can be used in future waves of COVID-19.
The Importance of Replenishment Lead Time Variation in Inventory Planning
Inventory planning is a vital process for companies that want to minimize risk and maximize profit. It can be difficult, however, to create an accurate inventory plan when there are so many variables in the equation. The complexity of inventory planning increases exponentially when replenishment lead time variation is not taken into account. In this blog post, we'll explore why replenishment lead time variation should be included in all inventory plans.
What does Elon Musk think about Supply Chain?
“The supply chain stuff is really tricky.” ~Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX
A concept that might be tricky, is something called the bullwhip effect.
Bullwhips are tools that are used to make animals move. They are used to create a small sonic boom and can be dangerous to the animal or anything in the way. A bullwhip has a large handle, with a tapered lash, that varies in length. Then at the very end of the whip is a popper. The handle is moved, and the physical waves move progressively faster when the whip is flicked until they end at the popper, which provides a loud popping sound, moves incredibly fast, and is quite dangerous.
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Find out if Right Sized Inventory is right for your business and inventory needs. Set up a call with one of our team and we’ll walk you through a demo, identify trouble spots in your business, and see how implementing RSI can transform your business through data-driven inventory optimization.