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Learn to minimize costs, Improve efficiency using Inventory control technique like EOQ and Safety Stock

What you will learn

Types of Inventory Management

Economic order Quantity

Demand and Lead time variation on safety stock

Cost minimization technique

Cost in Inventory Management

EOQ with constraint of batch size and discount

EOQ with backorder

King’s or normal distribution of Safety stock

ABC Analysis and ABC-XYZ analysis

Inventory turnover ratio

Sales to stock ratio

Description

As famously said by warren buffet ‘Cash is King’.

Inventory mismanagement is the biggest reason behind low cash flow in a business.

This MBA-style course will turbo-charge your career and will make a REAL difference in your supply chain and retail business.

To run business operations every organization need to optimize its Inventory management so that it can reduce cost and make use of all its resources.

It is crucial for you to learn the steps required to make Inventory management part of your supply chain integration and procurement process. Also, one of the biggest problems you will face in any organization is the lack of proper inventory planning and controlling the flow of materials.


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1. Inventory basics and Optimization

What is Inventory Management

  • Types of Inventory Management
  • How much stock we should have
  • Inventory Optimization
  • Cost in Inventory Management
  • Keywords in Inventory Management
  • Cost of Inventory

2. Safety Stock, Economic order quantity, and Lead time

  • Types of Safety Stock Techniques
  • Safety stock and Reorder point
  • Service level on safety stock
  • How to Reduce Safety stock
  • Economic Order Quantity
  • EOQ backorder, reorder point

3. Introduction to statistics

  • Mean, Mode and Median
  • Standard deviation and variance
  • Standard Normal distribution
  • King’s or normal distribution of Safety stock
  • Normal distribution with lead time and demand variation
  • Problems with ABC Analysis
  • Introduction to ABC – XYZ Inventory Optimization

4. Inventory finance and accounting

  • Introduction to retail finance
  • Income statement and cash flow statement
  • Introduction to asset and margin management
  • The strategic profit model in retail
  • Walmart and Tiffany’s financial statement
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Content

Introduction to inventory

Course overview
What is Inventory Management
Types of Inventory Management
How much stock we should have

Inventory Optimization

Inventory Optimization
Cost in Inventory Management
Keywords in Inventory Management
Cost of Inventory

Safety Stock , Economic order quantity and Lead time

Types of Safety Stock Techniques
Safety stock and Reorder point
Service level on safety stock
How to Reduce Safety stock
Introduction to EOQ
Economic order Quantity
EOQ Assignment
Introduction to Lead Time
EOQ with lead time Exercise
EOQ with order size constraint
EOQ with bulk discount
EOQ with production order quantity
EOQ when backorders are allowed
EOQ backorder reorder point
EOQ backorder exercise

Introduction to Statistics

Mean, Mode and Median
Standard deviation and variance
Normal distribution
Standard Normal distribution

Techniques for safety stock

King’s or normal distribution of Safety stock
Normal distribution with lead time variation
Normal distribution with lead time and demand variation

Inventory Management technique

ABC Analysis for inventory management
Problems with ABC Analysis
Introduction to ABC – XYZ Inventory Optimization

Inventory finance and accounting

Introduction to retail finance
Income statement and cash flow statement
Introduction to asset and margin management
The strategic profit model in retail
Walmart and Tiffany financial statement
Assignment

Inventory management metrics and KPIs

Inventory turnover ratio
Sales to stock ratio
Days in hand
Sell through rate