Abstract:

For all the focus on supply chain management in the consumer goods to retail industry, there is simply not much solid understanding of exactly how vendor performance in such areas as fill rates and lead times – and more importantly the variances seen in those metrics – impacts overall and store inventory levels.

We’ve been on something of a crusade here to unravel these mysteries, and we definitely take another step forward with this broadcast.

In this videocast, we use vendor performance information from a real retailer to show how reducing lead time and fill rate variance, achieved through targeted programs, can substantially reduce the amount of inventory a retailer needs to carry in its supply chain.

The key of course: actually using improved vendor performance to optimize inventory and safety stock policies.

We’ll cover all this and more in this fast–pace broadcast, as we peel another layer off this onion.

Not to be missed for retailers and consumer goods manufacturers. Retailers – please encourage merchandisers in your organization to participate too!

Featuring analysis of actual retailer vendor data, SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore, Mark Krupnik of Retalon, former retail supply chain executive David Schneider, and Richard Wilhjelm of Compliance Networks.