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Risk Mitigation with a Dual-Source Supply Base Data Modeling
Many new trends in sourcing include the new term Sure-Shoring. This means a supply chain may have multiple sources close to home and across the world. With all supply chains, there is potential for geo-political instability, natural disasters, or even a giant container ship blocking the Suez Canal to affect the day to day.
Reorder Points, Minimum Order Quantities, and Toilet Paper?
One of the challenges in supply chain is often-times we use the same terms to describe different things. “Safety Stock” to one person or company might be a “Reorder Point” to another. Other people might describe a “Minimum Quantity” when what they are really describing is a “Safety Stock”. That is why it’s critically important at Right Sized Inventory (RSI), when we first meet with clients, to clearly define terms and vocabulary.
RSI Announces Newest Team Member Ryker Frandsen, Operations Manager
Ryker Frandsen is our new Operations Manager. He has worked in the biotech, automotive, and building product industries. He has significant experience in buying, planning, master scheduling, and inventory management. Notably, he planned the chemistry for COVID-19 PCR testing on automated workstations when the COVID-19 Pandemic started while at Beckman Coulter. He won the 2020 Sales Choice Award from the sales team based on his communication and delivery performance of this crucial product. He also spent significant time as the inventory management team lead as well as planning hardware and service product lines for the Centrifugation and Particle Characterization products.
Signs Predictive Analytics Aren’t Used to Determine Buffer Inventory
Forgive us for asking this set-up question with an obvious answer – Does your current buffer-inventory calculation include all these factors? No, of course it doesn’t.
We assure you, we appreciate and never underestimate the value of experience and intuition in a supply-chain professional. We have accumulated quite a bit over the decades, and it continues to serve us well. Why are we telling you this?
RSI ANNOUNCES NEWEST CLIENT: SMOKING GOOSE MEATERY!
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.
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