Steer the permanent trade-off between tied-up cash, product availability and service level: segmentation, safety stocks, replenishment rules and a distribution network aligned with your strategy.
Your challenges
Inventory is both a service insurance and sleeping cash. Poorly steered, it loses on both fronts simultaneously.
Global inventory is high but badly distributed: too much on what sleeps, not enough on what turns.
Reorder points and quantities date from another era of the business and no longer track real demand.
Warehouses, allocations and transfers piled up with history and were never put back on the table.
Holding, obsolescence, transfers, rush orders: nobody consolidates what inventory truly costs.
Our approach
We start from your real portfolio and finish with simple, documented rules your teams own.
Cross value, velocity and criticality to differentiate stocking policies.
Safety stocks and parameters computed on real demand and lead times.
Ordering rules that are simple, robust and usable by the teams.
Allocations, transfers and target network assessed at full cost.
Deliverables
Rules that depend neither on one expert nor on a fragile spreadsheet: everything documented and transferable.
The product classes, their differentiated stocking policies and the periodic review rules.
Safety stocks, reorder points and quantities, computed, justified and ready to load into your systems.
The ordering rules documented, edge cases handled and the routine for refreshing parameters.
The full-cost assessment of the current network and quantified evolution scenarios.
Expected benefits
The same portfolio, before and after the reset. Toggle to compare.
Who it's for
This file is the right entry point when tied-up cash becomes a leadership topic.
Inventory is your first cash reserve, but nobody knows how much to release without breaking service.
References and channels multiply, and the historical recipes no longer keep up.
Warehouses and transfers accumulated over time, and the network's full cost was never established.
Typical case
An anonymized example, representative of the inventory and distribution engagements we run.
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One conversation is enough to estimate your portfolio's potential and the path to reach it.
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