Chapter 9 - MANAGING INVENTORY IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN
Consumer packaged goods (CGP) Firms
Is part of the distribution channels face a special challenge in keeping inventories
at acceptable levels because of the difficulty of forecasting demand and the
increasing expectations from customers concerning product availability.
CPFR - Collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishtags.
Batching economies or Cycle stocks
Arise from 3 sources
Procurement
Production
Transportation
The motor carrier saves money in pick-up, handling
and delivery costs with the truckload shipment and
these are reflected in a lower rate or price to the
shipper.
Larger purchased volumes result in lower
prices per unit and vice versa
Safety stock
It is much more complex and challenging to
manage because it is redundant inventory
Inventory & information
The information revolution is because now the technology
is available to transmit and receive timely and accurate
information between trading partners.
Inventory value is calculated by multiplying the
number of units in the container times the
manufactured cost of each item divided by 365.
The value of the inventory is considered an annual valuation.
Inventory cost
It is important for 3 reasons
1. Inventory costs represent a significant
component of logistics costs in many
organizations
2. The inventory levels that an organization maintains at
nodes in its logistics network will affect the level of
service that the org can offer.
3. Cost trade off decisions in logistics frequently
depend on and ultimately impact inventory
carrying costs.
Inventory carrying cost
Capital cost
Called too like interest or opportunity cost.
Inventory service cost
Inventory risk cost
Calculating the cost of carrying inventory
Time/In transit and work in process stock
The longer the time period, the higher the cost
The time associated with transportation and with the
manufacture or assembly of a complex product are in
a inventory cost with the time period.
The rates or prices charged by
carriers in the different modes
reflect these differences in service.
EDI - Electronic data interchange
WIP - Work in process
WIP inventories are associated with manufacturing.
Seasonal stocks
It's gonna be
happen with the
RM or the demand
for finished
product
Seasonality can affect transportation, like
When the rivers and lakes freeze during the
winter, which might interrupt the shipment
ABC
Uses a mix of motor carrier,
railroad and ocean carriers to
complete this move
A items are considered to be the most important
B items being of lesser importance
C items being the least important
Anticipatory
Stocks
One of the most popular solution is to make an
analysis, it should be undertaken to assess the risk,
probability and cost of inventory
The importance of inventory
in other functional areas
1. Marketing - Is to identify, create and help
satisfy demand for an organization's products
or service
2. Manufacturing - Manufacturing operations are
measured in many organizations, by how efficiently
they can produce each unit of output
3. Finance - Inventories impact both
the incomes statement and balance
sheet of an organization.
WACC - Weighted average cost of capital
WACC is the weighted average percent of debt service of all external sources of funding, including both equity and debt
Ordering and set up cost
Ordering cost
Set up cost
Expected stock out cost
Safety stock
Pull vs Push
The pull approach
relies on customer
orders to move
product through a
logistics system, while
the push approach
uses inventory
replenishment
techniques in
anticipation os
demand to move
products
Simple EOQ model
It has 8 points (page 317)
The simple EOQ
model considers only
two basic types of
cost: inventory
carrying and
ordering cost
Min - max inventory
management
approach
This applies when demand
might be larger and when
the amount on hand might
fall below the reorder point
before the organization
initiates a replenishment
order
Uncertainty of demand
Uncertainty demand and lead
time length
How much product customers will demand during the lead time. If demand and lead time
are constant and known, calculatiing the reorder poitn would be easy.
Fixed order interval approach
Fixed period or fixed period approach involves ordering inventory at fixed or regular intervals.
If demand & lead time are constant and known in advance,
then an organizations using the fixed order interval
approach will periodically recorder exactly the same amount
of inventory.
Materials requirements planning
Master production schedule (MPS)
Bill of materials file (BOM)
Inventory status file (ISF)
MRP program
Outputs and reports
80 20 RULE
Vilfredo Pareto, suggested that many
situations were dominated by a relatively
few vital elements and that the relative
characteristics of members of a population
were not uniform
Exmaple
An university might find that
20 percent of its courses
generates 80 percent of its
student credit hours
Quadrant model
It is used to classify raw materials, parts or components for a
manufacturing firms, the quadrant model can also be used
to classify finished goods inventories using value and risk to
the firm as the criteria.
The Square root rule
Helps yo determine the excent to which
inventories might be reduced through such a
consolidation strategy
If all of total customer demand remains the same, this estimates the excent to which
aggregate inventory need will change as an organization increases or decreases the number
of stocking locations