
Safety Stock vs DDMRP Buffer
And since I imagine none of you would be happy without a gas gauge, then I ask you, “Why do you think Safety Stock is sufficient to manage millions of dollars’ worth of inventory?”

And since I imagine none of you would be happy without a gas gauge, then I ask you, “Why do you think Safety Stock is sufficient to manage millions of dollars’ worth of inventory?”

We know intuitively that we must be agile in order to meet the changing and volatile customer demand. Why do we continue to insist that precision and the resulting chaotic emergencies are the best way to achieve agility?

“We’re taking data we know is wrong and using it to predict a precise outcome that we somehow expect to be right.
Typically, your family uses three eggs per day, so you set a safety stock level of six (two days worth). This means you never intend to have less than six eggs. That way, you should not have to rush to the grocery store just because of eggs.

Forecast Accuracy has been a topic of discussion for decades. Just from my own time in supply chain (20 plus years), it’s always been front

On a recent trip, I tried to remain cashless. No need to exchange money. Just use credit cards everywhere. I even used my phone “wallet”

Forecast Accuracy has been a topic of discussion for decades. Just from my own time in Supply chain (20 plus years), it’s always been front

The most common situation in business. Sales: “We ran out of inventory. You need to keep enough on hand so we can sell.” Purchasing: “We

This is the way we’ve always done it. We hear it all the time. It’s often given as the most dangerous sentence in all the

The biggest lie we have ever been told: It’s not that simple. Why do we in Supply Chain accept the chaos? We complain about it,

This is a common discussion for me. People are convinced that safety stock will help them to achieve inventory management goals. But when I ask

The Demand Driven MRP methodology begins with Positioning. Inventory Positioning specifically. What is so special about positioning? It is the key to solving one of

All of us are limited by what we can imagine. And that is often influenced by what we have seen or how we have worked