Oracle Speaks on Inventory Optimization

The Oracle notes that very few organizations focus on inventory reduction as a means to improve their asset use and cash-to-cash cycle time.

Nor do they understand how their supply and demand variability can reduce their cycle and safety stock inventory value. These and other components that impact inventory are discussed here.

Oracle Speaks on Inventory Optimization
We consulted the Oracle to figure out how to move inventory through our supply chain using statistical forecasting and replenishment techniques.

Turning Retail Challenges into Opportunities
Retailers know their world has changed dramatically from just a few years ago, but they aren’t always sure what to do about it. Today, their biggest competitor might not be Walmart or the store across the street – it’s Amazon.com or eBay.

Your customers have changed, too. The hyper-connected consumer wants access to your brand and merchandise from their tablets, smartphones and laptops, as well as when browsing their favorite social networks. They want to shop and buy when and where they choose, and have you ship their purchases to their door or they’ll pick it up at your store.

Words of Wisdom re: Push vs. Pull in Retail Flow
There is never a dull moment when you work for a fast-paced, growing company, and the Oracle’s analogy of a retail flow strategy of a glass pipe with water flowing through it was a perfect visualization. We needed to ensure that we were not constraining the water though our retail glass pipe and that we were moving at full velocity. To quote the Oracle, “It is not the large that eat the small, but the fast that eat the slow.”