{"id":348,"date":"2020-09-18T18:40:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T18:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2021-01-17T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T21:35:14","slug":"inventory-management-the-nuts-bolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/2020\/09\/18\/inventory-management-the-nuts-bolts\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventory Management: The Nuts & Bolts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most companies carry too much inventory. \u201cYou can\u2019t sell from an empty wagon,\u201d is usually the reasoning. Being over-stocked means the company will likely not run out of anything. But what about the inventory that has celebrated a few birthdays in the warehouse? Has anyone stopped to calculate the true cost of worrying about \u201crunning out?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The costs of maintaining excessive inventory usually far outweigh the true cost of not being able to quickly deliver a particular item to a customer once in a very long while. A balance must be struck between inventory levels and turnover. Good inventory managers know what stock moves at what rate. They carefully plan re-order levels to ensure that the chances of running out are minimized while the turnover rate is maximized. Duration: 1 day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Will Participants Learn?
<\/strong>\uf0fc Understand terms that are frequently used in warehouse management
\uf0fc Identify the goals and objectives of inventory management, and measure your process against these goals
\uf0fc Calculate safety stock, reorder points, and order quantities
\uf0fc Evaluate inventory management systems
\uf0fc Identify the parts of the inventory cycle
\uf0fc Better maintain inventory accuracy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Topics are Covered?
<\/strong>\uf0fc What is inventory?
\uf0fc Types of inventory
\uf0fc Key players
\uf0fc Setting up the warehouse
\uf0fc What makes a good inventory management system?
\uf0fc The warehouse inventory cycle
\uf0fc Identifying demand
\uf0fc Validating inventory
\uf0fc The put-away and receiving process
\uf0fc Maintaining inventory accuracy
\uf0fc The outbound process
\uf0fc Industry trends<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s Included?
<\/strong>\uf0fc Instruction by an expert facilitator
\uf0fc Small, interactive classes
\uf0fc Specialized participant manual and course materials including a pre-assignment and a post-assignment
\uf0fc A personalized Certificate of Completion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most companies carry too much inventory. \u201cYou can\u2019t sell from an empty wagon,\u201d is usually the reasoning. Being over-stocked means the company will likely not run out of anything. But what about the inventory that has celebrated a few birthdays in the warehouse? Has anyone stopped to calculate the true cost of worrying about \u201crunning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supervisors-managers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stellarconsultingandtraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}