SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Inventory Management

Now more than ever, consumer needs are more difficult to predict, yet, there has been a rise in the expectation of same-day delivery for most products. This makes forecasting demand for your inventory increasingly difficult. As a part of supply chain management, inventory management oversees the flow of goods from manufacturers to warehouses and from these facilities to point of sale. Accurate inventory information is essential for yield and cost calculations, maintaining cost-effective inventory levels, and initiating purchases.

Working with The Poirier Group’s stellar inventory management planning team will allow your business to accurately forecast your inventory demand and turn a point of weakness into an efficient and profitable strength. 

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Our team of supply chain management specialists are incredibly well-versed in the supply chain industry and all members are Lean Six Sigma certified. We’ve worked in supply chain networks at every different stage, and therefore have a comprehensive understanding of all complex processes and procedures involved in these extensive systems. Our clients need their products moved through their facilities as fast as possible, so we also assist with reducing inventory wait times, excess inventory, FIFO failures, and increasing OSHA compliance.

The Poirier Group will leverage key stakeholders to document and map current inventory processes across functional areas from raw material, to work-in-progress (WIP), to finished goods. We have an exclusive focus and expertise in retail demand and supply planning utilizing several of our SME’s who have been at the forefront of innovation in retail demand and supply planning for more than 20 years.

Ultimately, we want to make it easier for you to effectively manage business and inventory to better serve your customers. The Poirier Group works with you to ensure that our Inventory Management solutions reflect your distribution needs.

Read this infographic for more info 6 Steps on How to Improve Your Inventory Position.

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SERVICES

We have extensive experience in the retail and grocery industries, helping our clients implement best practices and maintaining standard operating procedures (SOP) to eliminate wasteful steps, keep their inventory flowing optimally and keep their costs down.

  • First In First Out (FIFO)
  • Cycle Counts
  • Setting Par Levels
  • Creating Contingency Plans
  • Product shipping
  • On-hand Inventory
  • Intended Service Levels
  • Replenishment
  • Inventory Audit best practices

Open-to-buy (OTB) is an inventory management planning and replenishment tool that works with your retail business to determine the amount of merchandise your retail store can buy during a certain time period for a certain department or category. It will help retailers manage inventory, plan purchases and budget effectively, ultimately improving their financial performance and protecting their inventory investments. 

The Poirier Group has extensive experience working in retail environments and we help retailers implement OTB to manage and replenish their inventory according to their customer and seasonal needs.

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is an inventory management planning system that is used for calculating the materials needed to manufacture a product. It is a widely used tool to help automate the manufacturing process by helping your organization estimate quantities of raw materials and schedule their deliveries in a timely manner.

MRP can be used to answer the following important manufacturing questions:
– What is needed?
– How much is needed?
– When is it needed?

We will analyze your current material resource planning capabilities including inventory management, ordering and forecasting techniques and determine the best software solution to help your manufacturing facility operate optimally. Your employees responsible for inventory management planning will rely on the MRP system to speed up purchasing processes, and eliminate costly inventory errors and scheduling problems that come with manual inventory management.

An effectively implemented MRP will help our clients achieve improved inventory levels, economical ordering practices, improved customer service and time and labour savings. 

By starting at the store and producing forecasts of consumer demand, all other demands in the supply chain can be calculated. The result is order-of-magnitude improvements in reducing out of stocks and improving inventory performance and profitability for all members of the extended retail supply chain inclusive of cross banners. 

We help retailers transform their inventory flow planning processes by identifying your current state of flowcasting; developing a process solution; and implementing and institutionalizing it into your company. Throughout the process, we provide ongoing education, learning, training and coaching to key staff to ensure the solutions are sustainable.

Accurate inventory information is essential for yield and cost calculations, maintaining cost-effective inventory levels, and initiating purchases. Auditing the amount of inventory on hand must therefore be accurate and up-to-date to the minute. Cycle counting is often used to remediate deficiencies, create cost savings and save time and labour.

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"Just want to acknowledge the excellent presentation yesterday. It was thorough, comprehensive and well received not only by the Steering Committee but even more importantly by owners. The presentation inspired their confidence in The Poirier Group and in the direction we are moving in this comprehensive process. Great job."
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“Looking back on our time with The Poirier Group, we would not have been able to achieve our inventory management and overall business objectives without their services. If you are considering an engagement with The Poirier Group, I highly recommend them.”
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