• Headquartered in Denver Colorado

  • 20+ sites globally

  • $450 million annual sales

  • Manufacture thermal instrumentation panels, power control modules  & plasma generators for the aerospace & automotive industries. 

  • Chronic inventory imbalances:

  • Working capital tied up on shelves due to excess inventory

  • Expensive and frequent expedites due to stockouts, specifically on items with highly intermittent demand

  • Purchased ERP system that did not provide the functionality or ease-of-use desired with respect to inventory optimization

  • Eliminate inventory imbalances

  • Reduce working capital and expedites

  • Improve service levels

  • Stop working in home-grown solutions and implement an intuitive, easy to use, inventory management system that does not displace their extensive ERP investment

  • Accelerate planning duration

  • Reduced inventory imbalances:

  • Unlocked $6M of working capital

  • Improved service levels on chronically understocked part; thus reducing expedites

  • Standardized and streamlined inventory planning process:

    • Gained visibility to key inventory item profiles enabling strategic supply chain decisions

    • Eliminated home-grown solution

    • What-if capabilities drove strategic supply chain decisions 

    • RSI’s technology expanded to MRO division to address intermittent demand issues

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