Inventory management and disposition

Optimize inventories - reduce costs

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This training is held in German.
High delivery readiness and a good level of service on the one hand and inventory optimization and cost savings on the other are key challenges of professional inventory management. This is becoming increasingly relevant, especially against the backdrop of a growing number of variants, increasing complexity and more difficult procurement markets. The training provides practice-oriented basic knowledge to efficiently optimize inventories, reduce costs and minimize planning and scheduling efforts.

Contents

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Basics of inventory management

  • Trends, definitions, contexts.
  • Conflicting objectives in supply chain management, production and logistics.
  • Objectives of SC projects; working capital management.
  • Network planning in SC - multi-level storage systems.

Inventory management as an overarching operational function

  • Objectives of inventory management, functions of inventories.
  • Influence of inventories on the company result (working capital etc.).
  • Causes of excessive stocks, exploit potential for improvement via range analysis.
  • Key factors influencing inventory management: organization, processes, master data, IT, etc.

Inventory analyses

  • Basic stock analyses.
  • Article classification as the basis for a differentiated, dynamic disposition (ABC/XYZ).
  • Process management and key logistics processes in the company.

Monitoring and controlling inventories - important key figures

  • Service, procurement and inventory key figures: On time delivery, stock turnover, readiness to deliver, forecast accuracy, etc.

Optimize inventory – Reduce costs

  • Assortment management.
  • Improve planning quality: from sales forecast to IT-supported sales forecast.
  • Methods of determining demand: gross/net demand, deterministic, stochastic planning.
  • Supply strategies: make to order, order to order, make to stock, etc.
  • Differentiated, dynamic replenishment: classification of stocks using volume variability analysis (ABC/XYZ), dynamic calculation of safety stocks and order points, determination of optimum order quantities, etc.
  • Special: Missing parts management in mechanical and plant engineering.

Special: Tried and tested software use in scheduling

Process automation as a driver of digital transformation

  • Automation and optimization of procurement processes.
  • Optimal integration of suppliers.
  • Consignment warehouse, C-parts management, VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory).
  • The 8 megatrends in logistics.

Inventory optimization in production

  • Factors influencing production on inventories: set-up times, batch sizes, Kanban control.
  • Inventory management in the maintenance area.

Developing an activity plan for your practice

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

Your benefit

This training provides the basic knowledge for effective and efficient inventory management. The objectives include:

  • optimizing stock levels and minimizing administrative work,
  • the reduction of costs,
  • improving the level of service (first-time fix rate and waiting time),
  • the reduction of missing parts,
  • increasing transparency in inventory management and
  • understanding of interrelationships and conflicting objectives.

Methods

Interactive training with trainer input, exercises, practical and best-practice examples, practical simulation, discussion and exchange of experience.

Recommended for

Specialists and managers from purchasing, scheduling, logistics, production and supply chain management who want to learn how to plan correctly, schedule efficiently and optimize inventories. For attendees who want to build a solid foundation for their specialist knowledge in this area.

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Questions about the seminar content

High delivery readiness and lean inventory levels are often in direct conflict in day-to-day operations. This training this very conflict of objectives tangible. You’ll gain a better understanding of how inventory optimization, service levels, and cost reduction are interconnected, and what matters when inventory needs to be not only reduced but also professionally safeguarded. This will help you make more balanced decisions in inventory management and identify undesirable trends earlier.

Excess inventory rarely occurs by chance; rather, it is usually the result of a combination of organizational, procedural, and data-related factors. This training understand the factors that influence inventory management and how to identify opportunities for improvement—for example, through range analyses. This will give you a clearer picture of where to focus your efforts to improve inventory levels not just in the short term, but systematically.

Missing parts are often the result of inadequate planning, inappropriate inventory parameters, or a lack of transparency. training clearly training how improving service levels, reducing missing parts, and cost-effective inventory planning can be combined. This includes, among other things, the dynamic calculation of safety stock and reorder points, as well as a special section on missing parts management in mechanical and plant engineering. This will help you better assess how to balance supply reliability and cost-effectiveness.

Inventory levels are influenced not only by planning decisions, but also by the quality of the underlying processes and data. This training clearly training this connection. You’ll explore key influencing factors such as organization, processes, master data, and IT, which will help you better understand why inventory issues often run deeper than just the operational level. This is particularly helpful when you need to identify root causes across different departments within the company.

In training , you training how to optimize procurement processes and suppliers integrate suppliers into an efficient inventory strategy. This includes concepts such as consignment stock, C-part management, and vendor-managed inventory. This will give you a better understanding of how to improve inventory management not only internally but also throughout the entire supply chain.

In this training , you training an action plan training a concrete foundation for implementation in your own work environment. This ensures that the training goes beyond general ideas; instead, you will identify specific next steps for your practice. This will help you set priorities more clearly and systematically apply what you’ve learned to your daily work.

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