Case example: Inventory Control System Customer profile Nature of business: Trading Purchases consumer products from China and repacks them. Distributes repackaged products to wholesalers and retailers in Singapore‚ Malaysia‚ and Indonesia. ♦ Background and problems Daily business operation involves procurement management‚ shipment schedule‚ consolidating sales orders‚ and delivery. Shortage of administrative personnel in handling the growing volume of supplies (Purchase Order)‚ shipment schedule
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Rationale Inventory systems are tracking systems that inform the amount of raw materials‚ supplies or final products have readily available. Updated each time you sell an item or use raw materials to create and to know what you available for the following day or week. This type of system allows ordering products in advance‚ so you have everything you need at all times. Man has come along his way in doing business transactions with each other. Inventory system put you a head
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1. Have you had problems with suppliers in regard to shortages? Backdoor selling? Delivery delays? Unsolicited favors and gifts? 2. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the current inventory control system? 3. Implementing a fixed asset inventory solution and performing proper accounting of assets can save time and money‚ reduce theft‚ improve planning and budgeting‚ eliminate “ghost assets‚” and help an organization recover after a natural disaster. However‚ the importance of tracking
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TECHNIQUES FOR INVENTORY CONTROL: THE NEED FOR INVENTORY In industry‚ inventory means ’stock of goods’. It may mean raw materials‚ work-in-progress‚ maintenance materials‚ processed and semi-processed materials‚ oils‚ fuels and lubricants as well as finished and semi-finished goods. They may be either in solid‚ liquid or gaseous form‚ required for future use‚ mainly in the production process as in the case of finished goods for re-sale. In any case‚ it is an idle resource having an economic value
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CASE I A CASE OF ALPHA TELENET LIMITED Alpha Telecom Ltd.‚ a part of Alpha Group was established in 1976 by its visionary Chairman and Managing Director‚ A. S. Verma. The company started with manufacturing of Electronic Push Button Telephones (EPBT) and Cordless phones in 1985 in Allahabad. On July 7‚ 1995 Alpha Tele-Ventures Limited was incorporated. A mobile service called ’Web-Tel’ was launched in Kochin‚ which eventually expanded its operations in Andhra Pradesh in
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them to deal with issues. From 1998 to 2001‚ SAP R/3 implementation has run smoothly in NIBCO. As a supply chain business processes‚ the improvements are both in supply-side and customer-side. The SAP implementation begins a demand-pull system instead of forecast push-system in NIBCO. Further on‚ NIBCO wants to reduce costs‚ improve customer satisfaction‚ and increase revenues. Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) program and a multiple customer service channels were initiated to enhance customer loyalty
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“Scientific Glass - Inventory Management” study case 1. How much funding will have to be raised in 2010 in order to finance the increase in inventory? Generally‚ the budget of inventory has positive correlation with the forecast of the turnover. As the case concerns‚ the finance department forecast 20% growth in sales in 2010 due to a forecast cast increase in the number of orders. Consequently‚ the cost of finished goods inventory in 2010 should get 20% increase on the basis of inventory cost in 2009
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INVENTORY CARRYING COSTS: Inventory carrying costs refers to the costs associated with carrying a quantity of stored inventory. This is one of the vital costs that needs to be optimized in any logistics system. It is a well-known fact that the inventory carrying costs is a part of the total logistics costs of the firm. Aspects of these vital costs can be described and evaluated from a variety of perspectives. Knowledge of inventory carrying costs is likely to be important to the success of any business
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The basic objective of inventory management is to provide the company with uninterrupted sales‚ production and customer service by incurring minimum cost. The inventory represents large portion of current asset of the company and also represent the volume of investment that is tied up in in form of raw material or finished products. Inventory management helps the managers to keep track of the inventory and also helps in reducing cost to the minimum level. Good inventory management helps the business
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ILLUSTRATIVE REAL WORLD CASES REAL WORLD CASE 1: HOW DELL IS MANAGING ITS SUPPLY CHAIN http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/2519/2580469/images/Realworldcase1.html The Problem Michael Dell started his business as a student from his university dorm by using a mail-order approach to selling PCs. This changed the manner in which PCs were sold. The customer did not have to come to a store to buy a computer‚ and Dell was able to customize the computer to the specifications of the customer. The
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