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Practical sense to know the basics of effective enterprise stock management
What is the role of effective inventory management for enterprise logistics?
This is a question of what is primary and what is secondary in the logistics of an enterprise. Or, in other words, where the horse should be: in front of the cart or behind it.
The logistics function “Inventory management” is a “horse” in relation to all other logistics functions of an enterprise that are “cart”. The role of effective inventory management for the enterprise’s logistics is the master or the leading one: first, a decision on effective inventory management must be made (designed), and then this decision must be “recalculated” into the content of other enterprise logistics functions, including “Warehousing” and “ Management of transportation of goods in the input and output logistics of the enterprise “. Continue reading
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How does optimal stock management and effective inventory management compare?
Optimal inventory management is SKU inventory management that meets any criterion (rule) of optimality, i.e. the best fit rule. The criterion of optimality consciously or unconsciously selects the subject of management, for example, a specialist in inventory management. Consequently, the correctness or inaccuracy of the choice of inventory management criteria determines the optimality or nonoptimality of their management.
The criterion for optimizing the inventory management of an enterprise should best suit its marketing, production, logistical and financial situation and the highest economic goals of the enterprise. Continue reading
Effective management of the sales department of the enterprise.
Based on the fact that the highest goals of the company’s business are the optimal increase in net profit, positive net cash flow and increase in the market value of the enterprise, for the product sales department represented in the financial structure of the enterprise the simple marginal profit center model should be installed and used to effectively manage it following key (financial) indicators:
(1) marginal profit (for the center of marginal profit);
(2) a contribution to the coverage of fixed costs of the enterprise (for the center of marginal profits);
(3) revenue from sales of products (for the income center); Continue reading
