17
Jul
2017
Increased Operational Costs
You have high carrying costs.
Inventory is inaccurate.
You order items already in stock.
Uncertain how to determine what to purchase.
You perform a physical cycle account often.
Unknown delta between actual inventory.
You have too many of the wrong items in stock.
You cannot determine what to order.
Uncertain average turn.
Uncertain how much it cost to carry items that don’t move.
Uncertain as to which warehouse to have items shipped to.
You find you often transfer between warehouses.
Unknown cost.
You carry an over abundance of kits in inventory.
You assemble kits and commit to demand.
You cannot explode kit components on purchase and sales orders.
It is manual.
Unknown Time/Cost.
You have an issue with shrinkage.
You cannot track inventory form receipt to shipment.
You cannot track item movement performance.
When you take ownership of items offshore, it takes long before you have visibility within your system.
Uncertain as how to audit transaction history.
There is an increase in shipping charges.
You are unaware of inventory in all warehouses so you are forced to ship from alternative stores.
You have no visibility of products being transferred.
You need to expedite goods because you do not know the receipt date.
It costs you.
The back orders need to be expedited.
This costs extra.
Uncertain if they can offer substitutes.
You have an increasing bad debt due to delinquent customers.
Order desks take orders which put customers over their credit limit.
Uncertain whether they take orders for customers who are delinquent on payment.
Uncertain what happens to those orders.
Uncertain how often you can collect.
You maintain multiple systems.
Order processing, distribution and shipping are not integrated.
Uncertain how orders are created.
Uncertain pick tickets.
Uncertain bin labels.
Uncertain documents and packing lists.
It takes long.
It costs.
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