Midwest Warehouse Solutions provides inventory management services to other companies by maintaining their inventory levels in MWS's centralized warehouse. This allows clients to reduce inventory holding costs, eliminate lead times, and focus on customer service without worrying about excessive inventory levels. MWS customizes inventory orders for each client's specific demands and absorbs all costs of storing, maintaining, and insuring inventory. By managing inventory in this way, MWS aims to help clients maximize cash flow, cut costs, streamline their supply chains, and gain peace of mind regarding inventory forecasting and management.
1. Your Inventory Reductions Specialists!
5030 Cundiff Ct.
Decatur, IL 62526
Ph: 217-875-5776
Sales Manager/Logistics Coordinator: Greg Grimm
ggrimm@midwestwarehousesolutions.com
midwestwarehousesolutions.com
2. Midwest Warehouse Solutions
Let us go to work for YOU!
Description
Midwest Warehouse Solutions (MWS) collaborates with other companies to achieve sustainable
inventory reduction while eliminating inventory holding and carrying costs for our clients. MWS
optimizes your businesses supply chain performance by maintaining your inventory levels and
delivering just-in-time parts. MWS virtually eliminates lead times by holding inventory at our
centralized warehouse as we become an efficient supply-chain for our clients. This provides a
clear line of communication and a transparent relationship for your company. MWS absorbs all
of the cost of storing inventory within our own facility (maintenance, utilities, equipment,
taxes/insurance warehouse spacing, etc...). We also incur our client’s warehouse liabilities.
Midwest Warehouse Solutions allows our clients to focus on customer service while not
worrying about excessive inventory. Companies today must be flexible and our business allows
our clients to be quick and adaptable to the constant changing demands and needs of their
customers. MWS customizes our orders directly for our client’s demands and gives our clients
peace of mind when attempting to forecast due to our efficient management of their inventory.
We recirculate your inventory to ensure a “1st in, 1st out” distribution process. This also ensures
that if a part is out of spec, it makes it easier to find the problem and have the supplier fix the
issue before sending more parts out.
Mission
As a customized inventory supplier operation, Midwest Warehouse Solutions operates
relentlessly to achieve sustainable inventory reduction while absorbing all of the costs that go
along with inventory holding and carrying for your company. We allow your company to
maximize its cash flow, cut all inventory cost, collaborate with your suppliers to provide vendor
consolidation, reduce lead-times exponentially with just-in-time parts, as well as provide you
with safety stock in our centralized warehouse. We minimize concern regarding forecasting and
excessive inventory for your company. We will work for you to make your entire operation more
efficient and prosperous.
3. What we can do for YOU!
It is detrimental for a company to adjust their inventory reduction simply to meet financial goals.
This hinders your ability to fully satisfy your customer’s needs and truly effects customer
service. Inventory is typically the largest expense that a company will incur, which is why
companies make financial decisions over customer service based outcomes. At Midwest
Warehouse Solutions, we not only take over these expenses that are involved with warehousing
and inventory but provide a sustainable inventory reduction process that allows your company to
maintain or improve customer service. While we hold and manage your company’s inventory,
we allow for your business to become rapid and compliant to the constant changing demands of
your customer’s needs.
Inventory accounts for approximately 20% to 40% of material cost or cost of goods sold (COGS)
per year. We help you so that you can efficiently invest in your inventory in a timely manner
allowing for more effective cash flow as well as cutting cost for labor. This in turn enables more
operative use of your facility space.
MWS holds so much of our client’s inventory on-hand that we inherently have safety stock
readily available when you need it. Whether you peak in sales and need more product quick, or
you are having a slow turnover we are here to help. If your business is having a slow month, you
do not need to worry about the cost of holding onto unused product in your warehouse as we
endure that cost as well. This aspect of our company allows for our clients to have some peace of
mind when attempting forecasting their inventory for the year. This eliminates any excessive
inventory for the end of the year as well.
MWS virtually eliminates lead-times by virtually becoming our client’s entire supply-chain. We
become an efficient supply-chain for our clients. This provides a clear line of communication
and a transparent relationship for your company. We collaborate with manufactures and
suppliers to provide our clients with a “one-stop” inventory warehouse. Since we eradicate a vast
majority of the supply-chain process for our clients, we reduce the costs and lead-times
exponentially. We optimize your supply chain performance, thus making your business more
fluid and compliant for your customers.
We improve the effectiveness of the plant and planning managers at your company by cutting
cost that lead to a more efficient operation as well as keep your inventory levels low to prevent
excessive stock and finished goods inventory from increasing. 82% of senior executives state
that inventory reduction is a major concern. This is because high inventory absorbs a large
amount of funds and indicates that there are issues such as declining sales, over-stock, so on...
Cash flow is based on changes in inventory such as accounts receivable and payable. In this case,
we allow our clients to control their cash flow more effectively.
Typically, lead times consist of 95% idle time and 5% production. We effectively eliminate the
idle time with our centralized warehouse and our just-in-time inventory. This also reduces order
4. transaction cost for our clients as well. We are essentially an off-site Vendor-managed Inventory
(VMI). We take full responsibility of holding, controlling, and maintaining your inventory and
delivering your JIT parts when you need them. This helps us to optimize your supply chain and
helps to prevent any shrinkage and damage waste that affect the product. We customize our
orders directly for our clients’ demands and allow you to be more flexible for your customers.
Savings Presented by Midwest Warehouse Solutions
Company X
MWS saves company X over $6,000 annual on these 10 specific parts.
These prices are based on monthly rates. The MWS prices that you see include shipping
in with our fixed rate. The other vendor’s numbers are set without shipping factored in,
providing you even more savings than shown.
Company X was having trouble with their products such as parts coming in late as well as
having cash flow locked due to too much inventory. MWS cured this problem for
Company X by ordering and maintaining their parts for them.
This allows for company X to have more cash flow, eliminate lead times and provide
worry free JIT shipments.
We are able to collaborate with vendors so that we can be your central hub for all parts
and allow your company to receive one shipment of inventory, rather than multiple. This
tactic helps our clients save time and money.
Due to the partnership with MWS, Company X is able to be more fluid with their
customers and allow them to be more adaptable to their consumer’s demands.
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5. Let us go to work for YOU!
What problems have you came across with your product? This question includes both the
shipping and quality of the product. Does the product come in wrong when delivered? We
collaborate with your vendors to ship your products into our centralized warehouse. MWS will
become a partner with you and your supplier to allow you to consolidate your current vendors
into one. We handle a multitude of parts from foreign vendors allowing for more cost savings
passed on to you. Our purchasing manager handles all foreign manufactures, saving your
company the headache of dealing with these vendors abroad while keeping your money here
locally with MWS.
Are shipments damaged, lost or stolen? Are you happy with the quality of the final product? We
have a well-experienced Quality Control (QC) staff that ensures the quality of your product.
They will analyze your parts to ensure that they have been delivered to spec, solidify the quality
of the overall product and make sure that the correct number of parts was delivered. This is yet
another stress that MWS takes on for you.
Are shipments not on time? Are freight rates too high? We have our own sister freight company,
Midwest Freight of Illinois (MFI), that enables us to provide even more savings with our
shipping. Since your company will be doing business with MWS, MFI will provide more
affordable shipping then your current rates. Trucking can be figured into the fixed price or we
can have shipping be a separate payment, whatever is most convenient for your company. We
have loyal truckers that will be dedicated to our just-in-time promise to our clients, same-day or
next-day shipping available. Also, when you are working with us you will minimize the amount
of shipments that you must make annually due to our centralized warehouse and JIT delivery
service. Not only will you be saving money by using our sister company, MFI, but your
company will not need as frequent shipments, thus allowing more cash flow throughout. By
operating our own sister freight company, we are able to negotiate with you to customize our
deliveries to satisfy your needs and save you money!
6. Savings Presented by Midwest Warehouse Solutions
Company Y
Company Y’s total spending on these parts prior to our assistance was $238,125.00. After
we became their partner and collaborated with their vendors their total spending was cut
to $155,500.00. This does not factor in the amount of cost that we were able to cut for
company Y by working with them. Expenses such as warehouse holding cost,
maintenance, and labor, locked up cash flow due to inventory, essentially eliminating
lead times, safety stock, equipment and utilities along with incurring all of the liabilities
of holding on to inventory (lost, stolen, shrinkage, so on).
Individually, each item received a considerable discount. Product #12345 went from $.37
per unit to $.24 per unit. Product #67890 went from $.40 per unit to $.26 per unit. We are
able to do this for Company Y because we were able to purchase their products in bulk
from overseas vendors, while they are able to keep their money here domestically.
We work with your vendors to purchase your product in bulk and store them within our
warehouse until they are needed for delivery.
We work with foreign manufacturers and suppliers to save you the hassle.
We can work with ANY product that you are having problems with or simply that you
would like to just cut cost on. NO product too large, NO product too small!
We cut cost throughout your company by ordering, tracking, maintaining and handling
your inventory levels and delivering just-in-time. We store your product in our
centralized warehouse for your convenience. This allows you to have more cash flow and
space within your facility, while giving you peace of mind about running out of parts and
the cost that is incurred with having a line down for any amount of time.
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