Two weeks ago, I wrote an article about how inventory management can take your customer service to the next level. Make sure your customer knows what to expect, keep your promises and if things do go wrong, communicate a solution to your customer as soon as possible. Of course, we [...]
Two weeks ago I wrote a LinkedIn article about clearing obsolete and slow moving stock before deciding on the need for a bigger warehouse. But inventory that does move, is also worth a closer look. When comparing to my freezer at home, this concerns the “ice cream” in your warehouse. [...]
People close to me, know that I have been playing table tennis, also known as ping pong, for over 30 years. For the first time in all these years, there were no ping pong balls when I arrived at the club for training yesterday. For 30 years, I have taken for [...]
Excess stock, obsolete stock, dead stock,… many terms to determine inventory that you no longer need in your company. The dictionary of APICS, a leading supply chain management association, defines “obsolete inventory” as: “… inventory that will never be used or sold at full value. Disposing of the inventory may reduce [...]
I was a production planner for over 10 years of my career, and I loved my job! I enrolled in this job because I love analysing and working with numbers. But what really was making me feel good driving home after a day at work was being able to have helped [...]
