Inventory Strategy: Maximizing Financial, Service and Operations Performance with Inventory Strategy

PREFACE

I have been consulting, teaching, and researching in supply chain strategy for 30+ years. I have traveled in more than 72 countries, worked in countless industries, and faced what seems to be the full gauntlet of supply chain issues. Over the last three years the Lord led me through a series of very intense projects with a common focus: inventory. From mining, to food, to aerospace, to retail, to electronics, to computing, to consumer packaged goods, to bottling, in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia, nearly every project had inventory optimization at the heart of it. In addition, many of the projects resulted in highly profitable increases in inventory levels. In one amazing sequence of projects the very distribution center ...