Recent Industry Research Explores Increased Benefits of Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization
Research Shows Multi-Echelon Users Twice as Able to Cost Effectively Balance Inventory and Service
ATLANTA (March 05, 2012) – The latest industry research reveals the goal of today’s supply chain professional must be to find the balance between service and investment. According to the report, “Inventory Optimization
Key Findings
- Leading driver for inventory optimization adoption is the need to reduce inventory carrying costs
- Multi-echelon inventory optimization users are twice as likely to adopt advanced supply chain capabilities such as inventory segmentation, replenishment and event management than non-multi-echelon users
- Multi-echelon users saw a 28% increase in inventory turns versus their non-multi-echelon counterparts
- Multi-echelon users are twice as likely to tie target-setting to the S&OP process
Notable Quotes
“Inventory optimization is a matter of right sizing inventory investment for a given service target,” said Bryan Ball, vice president and principal analyst, supply chain management, Aberdeen Group. “For multi-echelon users, the performance improvement over non-multi-echelon users is significant with vast improvements in inventory turns, cash-to-cash cycle and perfect order improvement. As supply chains become more complex, the need to address end-to-end challenges effectively through the use of multi-echelon solutions will become a necessity, not an option.”
“From 2008 through 2010 companies slashed inventories to immediately remove costs without an understanding of the impact these measures would have on customer service, future investments and revenue,” said Mike Edenfield, president and CEO, Logility. “This Aberdeen Group report clearly shows how companies which utilize a multi-echelon inventory optimization solution, such as Logility Voyager Inventory Optimization(TM), are better able improve cash flow, reduce working capital and increase customer service.”
Additional Information
The report also features interviews with two Logility customers; Stanley Black & Decker and a global chemical company. Both of these companies rely on Logility Voyager Inventory Optimization to find the right balance between inventory investment and service goals with impressive tangible results across their global supply chain networks.
Resources
Download your complimentary copy of this report at: http://www.logility.com/inv-opt.
Logility Voyager Solutions: http://www.logility.com/solutions/supply-chain-solutions.
Inventory Optimization on The Voyager Blog: http://www.logility.com/blog.
About Logility
With more than 1,250 customers worldwide, Logility is a leading provider of collaborative, best-of-breed supply chain solutions that help small, medium, large and Fortune 1000 companies realize substantial bottom-line results in record time. Logility Voyager Solutions is a complete supply chain management solution that features a performance monitoring architecture and provides supply chain visibility; demand, inventory and replenishment planning; Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP); supply and inventory optimization; manufacturing planning and scheduling; transportation planning and management; and warehouse management. Logility customers include McCain Foods, Sigma-Aldrich, and VF Corporation. Logility is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSWA). For more information about Logility, call 1-800-762-5207 USA or visit www.logility.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Source: Logility
