Inventory is an important aspect of Distribution Management and it contributes to the engagement of working capital. There are certain costs in carrying inventory and they include cost of obsolescence, stock out and wrong product. There are numerous techniques in forecasting inventory. They include survey, panels, market research, consensus, Delphi method, panel of experts, historical analogy. Then there are time series techniques, Moving Average Forecasts, Exponential Smoothing, Regression analysis, Economic Order Quantity. This is apart from a famous Japanese technique termed “Kanban”.
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SIM (stores and Inv Mgmt) unit 2:
Cost associated with inventories:
Ordering cost,
carrying cost,
over stocking cost,
under stocking cost,
other costs associated with service level.
Selective inventory controls:
Need of Inventory control,
objectives of inventory control,
concept of selective inventory control,
basis and use of different types of selective controls:
ABC,
VED,
HML,
FSN,
SDE,
SOS,
XYZ,
Multiple basic approach to selective inventory control (MBASlC) approach to drugs.
Inventory is an important aspect in Distribution Management. Inventory Control & Management highlight important issues of inventory and coverage profile. ABC and VED classification are explained. JIT and KANBAN, Japanese techniques used for inventory management are some of the concepts that are discussed in the presentation.
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SIM (stores and Inv Mgmt) unit 2:
Cost associated with inventories:
Ordering cost,
carrying cost,
over stocking cost,
under stocking cost,
other costs associated with service level.
Selective inventory controls:
Need of Inventory control,
objectives of inventory control,
concept of selective inventory control,
basis and use of different types of selective controls:
ABC,
VED,
HML,
FSN,
SDE,
SOS,
XYZ,
Multiple basic approach to selective inventory control (MBASlC) approach to drugs.
Inventory is an important aspect in Distribution Management. Inventory Control & Management highlight important issues of inventory and coverage profile. ABC and VED classification are explained. JIT and KANBAN, Japanese techniques used for inventory management are some of the concepts that are discussed in the presentation.
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Defination : Inventories constitute an important component of a firms working capital .The various features of inventory are inventory as current asssets ,level of liquidity and liquidity lags .
Purpose : The purpose of holding inventoryis to achieve efficiency through cost reduction, increased sales volume ,to avail quantity discounts ,reduce risk of production stoppages ,reducing ordering costs and time .
Inventory Management techniques : 2 types :
1. Economic order quantity : it is the order quantity that minimisesthe total cost associated with inventory management .
2. 2. ABC system : A – items of high value but small in number
B – items of moderate value and size require reasonable attention
C - items of smaller value
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2. Important issues with Inventory
• Inventory is an important aspect of Distribution
Management
• Inventory is capital is capital, it contributes to the
engagement of working capital
• There are costs in carrying inventory
• Cost of obsolescence
• Stock out
• Wrong product
Inventory Control and Management
3. Important issues with Inventory
• Danger s of stock out
– If a customer order is received and the
stores does not have stocks when we call
it an instance of stock out.
• Wrong inventory
• Aggregate inventory
Inventory Control and Management
4. Important issues with Inventory
• Geographical Specialization in inventory
– Opening depots at several places ins
geographically spreading the inventory rather
than concentrating the same at a central
place, and servicing the markets from such
central location
Inventory Control and Management
5. Important issues with Inventory
• Decoupling
– Technique of obtaining operating efficiencies
through stock pilling, work in progress at
certain stages of conversion to finished
goods, in the manufacturing unit, as against
converting them into finished goods, so that
when required the work in process can be
converted to finished goods in short notice.
Inventory Control and Management
6. Important issues with Inventory
• Balancing Supply and demand
– Managing the time gap between consumption
and manufacturing, in respect of items that
have seasonal upsurges in demand, but
manufacturing of which may have to be
carried out spread through the year
– E.g. Umbrella, winter wear, air coolers
Inventory Control and Management
7. Important issues with Inventory
• Buffering Uncertainties
– Safety stock
– One must know what should be the level of
cover
– Safety stock has an effect of multiplying
across depots, and increases costs of the
operation.
– Average inventory
Inventory Control and Management
8. Coverage Profile
• The performance cycle
– Average standard time taken for a
requirement message to materialize into
physical stock received at the location that
initiated the requirement memo.
– Also known as lead time
Inventory Control and Management
9. Coverage Profile
• Frequency
– No. of times the location is serviced
– If a depot is serviced once a month vis-à-vis
a depot that is serviced 15 times in a month,
we may like to keep at least one month’s
requirement in the former depot, whereas in
the latter case 2 days’ + stock may suffice
Inventory Control and Management
10. ABC Classification
• 10:20:70 rule is applied
• A class items which contributes maximum
volume of sales
• B class items which contributes to medium
sales in volume or value terms
• C class items which contribute to the least
amount of sales in volume or value terms
Inventory Control and Management
11. VED Classification
• Items are classified as to how vital,
essential, and or desirable they are in the
total scheme of things.
• In case of electricity appliances example
• Essential items are wire , switch etc
• Desirable items are decorative fittings, lamp
shades etc.
Inventory Control and Management
12. ABC & VED Analysis
A Class
B Class
C Class
Vital Essential Desirable
Inventory Control and Management
13. SAP Analysis
• Which is classifying the inventory on the
basis of Scarce, Available, and Plenty
• This may be built into the forecast
provisions in as much limitations in supply
or obsolescence of the item in near future
will be the guiding policy for procurement
Inventory Control and Management
14. FSN Analysis
• Classifying into Fast, Slow or Normal rate
of off take or consumption
• Consumption pattern where the rate is
slowed down or accelerated due to some
exceptional reasons may not give
representative figure
Inventory Control and Management
15. Intending for inventory
• While the general procedure is to forecast
demand for a period and accordingly place
and indent for materials, there is a school
of thought , which practices indents being
on the basis of replenishment of inventory,
triggered by stock depletion
Inventory Control and Management
16. Intending for inventory
• Central planning module based on the
information initiated the procedure of
replenishment
• For SKUs that are of a regular movement
nature, replenishment based indenting
may be comparatively easier
Inventory Control and Management
17. Intending for inventory
• case of items that are not so regular in off takes ,
in such cases the distribution function may resort
to treating one depot to operate as a mother
depot covering a cluster of other depots around
there where in such items may be stored on a
forecast basis, and supplies may be made from
there to the smaller depots assigned to them on
a replenishment basis
Inventory Control and Management
18. Factory
Factory
Central
Warehouse
C &FA1
Cum
Mother
Depot
Replenishment
Requirement C&FA2 C&FA3 C&FA4
Inventory Control and Management
19. Forecast
Ft =(Bt x St x Ct X Pt) + l
Where,
Ft = forecast quantity for period t
Bt = base level demand for period t
St = seasonality factor period t
T = trend component
Ct = promotional factor for period t
l = irregular or random quantity
Inventory Control and Management
20. Forecast
• Base Demand
– Is the quantity that is left after the influence of
all or most of the other components have
been removed
• Seasonal component
– Is recurring, upward or downward movements
in the demand pattern due to seasonal
influence
Inventory Control and Management
21. Forecast
• Trend
– Components are long range upward or down
ward movements in the demands influenced
by certain factors in the environment e.g.
Urban Housing
• Cyclic Components
– Are swing due to business factors such as
recessions , booms etc.
Inventory Control and Management
22. Forecast
• Irregular components
– Random unpredictable fluctuations which just
happen, like a sudden shortage of
competitor’s product creating an upsurge in
firm’s products’ demand
Inventory Control and Management
23. Forecasting Techniques
• Qualitative techniques
– Survey
– Panels
– Market research
– Consensus
– Delphi method
– Panel of experts
– Historical analogy
Inventory Control and Management
24. Time Series Techniques
• Are statistical methods using historical sales
data which contain relatively clear relationships
and trends
• Time series based forecasting methods are
– Moving average
– Exponential smoothing
– Extended smoothing
– Adaptive smoothing
Inventory Control and Management
25. Moving Average Forecasts
• Use average of the most recent periods
• They may be three monthly, four monthly,
even 12 monthly
• Every time a new period of actual data
gets available, it replaced the oldest time
period’s data
Inventory Control and Management
26. Exponential Smoothing
• Bases the estimate of the future sales on
the weighted average of the previous
demand and forecast levels
• The adjustment index is called the alpha
factor
• Ft = Dt -1 + (1- Alpha)Ft -1
Inventory Control and Management
27. Exponential Smoothing
• Extended smoothing
– Is to extend the basic model by including
trend and seasonality considerations
– Three components and constants to represent
the base, trend, and seasonal components
• Adaptive Smoothing
– Provides a regular review of the alpha factor
validity
Inventory Control and Management
28. Other techniques
• Regression Analysis
– Using econometric tools, regression analysis
based forecasting simply means estimating
the sale of an SKU on the basis of some
independent factor.
– E.g. Sales estimate of cold drinks is the
dependent variable on basis of right in
temperature which is the independent variable
Inventory Control and Management
29. Economic Order Quantity
• Replenishment order quantity that
minimizes the combined costs of inventory
maintenance and ordering
• EOQ = √2D x Co
= √U x Cc
Where, D = annual sales volume or annual demand
Co = cost per order
U = Cost per unit of the product
Cc = Inventory carrying cost expressed as a
percentage of the cost per unit
Inventory Control and Management
30. Economic Order Quantity
• Higher the demand during the period, higher will
be the EOQ
• Higher the ordering costs, it makes economic
sense to have a higher EOQ
• If carrying costs are high, it makes economic
sense to have a lower EOQ
• Products having a high per unit cost will also be
economical to order in lesser quantities
Inventory Control and Management
31. Re-ordering Procedure
1. Fixed quantities at different intervals
– The quantity will be the EOQ already worked
out
– The re-order level is set at a quantity
2. Fixed interval separate quantity
– Re-order periods have been set and on
those days orders are placed
Inventory Control and Management
32. Inventory stocking systems may be
influenced by
• Limitations of space
• Value risks
• To spread vulnerability
• For obtaining economies of scale
• Each item is given an unique code number
• Consumption figures are noted
• Variations in patterns are also noted
Inventory Control and Management
33. Material Requirement Planning-
MRP
• Helps material manager in controlling
inventory in the area of inbound material
movement
• Elaborate material requirement planning for
the master production schedules, to create
schedules for suppliers of raw materials,
packing materials, and intermediaries, along
with inventories of parts, quantities, and
delivery dates.
Inventory Control and Management
34. Distribution Requirement Planning-
DRP
• This is the tool for controlling inventory in the
distribution system of the organization
• DRP enables allotment of inventory of finished
goods from factory through the Central Ware
House to various distribution centers based on
– Demand
– Intends
– Safety stocks
– Frequency of supplies
– Lead times
Inventory Control and Management
35. An effective DRP leads
• Improved customer services
• Decrease in inventory levels
• Resultant decreased warehouse space
requirement
• Better transport coordination
• MRP & DRP are integral parts of any
Enterprise Resource Planning system
Inventory Control and Management
36. Just In Time-JIT
• Based on the premise that inventory should not
be brought into the system until it is required for
use in the production
• Characterized by maintaining zero inventories of
raw materials and assemblies
• JIT to succeed must ensure very close
coordination between the buyers and the
suppliers on a real time basis.
Inventory Control and Management
37. JIT mean
• Excellent buyer seller partnership
• On line communication and information
sharing
• Commitments to zero defects
• Frequent and small lot size shipments
38. Milk Runs
• A first level collection of individual through
a system of ‘milk runs’ which in effect
means a first level collection of individual
items of small required lots from across
different suppliers and consolidating them
at a hub center, from where a second level
main route vehicle carries the aggregated
material to the plant
Inventory Control and Management
39. Milk Runs
Milk Milk
run
Supplier run
Supplier Supplier
Hub Main haul
Factory
Inventory Control and Management
40. Vendor Management Inventory -
VMI
• JIT a Japanese model, did not work very
successfully in the USA, so an adaptation was
made more popularly known as VMI
• Suppliers take charge of the inventory
management of the product and supply
• Achieved by extensive use of electronic data
interchange or link ups through software
packages or even by locating supplier’s
representative at the manufacturer’s premises
Inventory Control and Management
41. Kanban
• In Japanese means a signboard or a label, is an
information system used to support JIT
initiatives.
• It signals supply of materials when used
• Communication tool in inventor management
• Coordinates the inflow of parts into the
production line and because it is simultaneously
the document for indent, the time in
replenishment is greatly minimized
Inventory Control and Management
42. Summary
• Inventory is an important aspect of
Distribution Management
• ABC and VED are important classification
of inventory
• SAP and FSN analysis are also useful for
inventory management
• Forecasting techniques includes time-
series analysis
Inventory Control and Management
43. Summary
• EOQ formula suggest economic order
quantity
• MRP and DRP are important concepts of
inventory management
• JIT and KANBAN are Japanese
techniques used for inventory
management
Inventory Control and Management