Inventory Management Technology Strategies for Distribution

Many distribution industry enterprises are seeking improved ways to manage their inventory. Traditional inventory management practices are being made obsolete by increasing global supply chains, more dynamic product life cycles, and multi-channel distribution. This Sector Insight provides key research findings for distribution companies to consider while making inventory management technology decisions.

• The majority of companies are looking at inventory as a cost-related item but 25% of companies are thinking of inventory as a way of gaining market share through superior service and product availability

• 50% of companies are still not managing at a network level but at a location level

• Only 6% of distribution companies have created a single owner for inventory across the supply chain.

• 40% of distribution companies are looking at their network design only once every two to five years

• 许多分销行业企业正在寻求改进的方法来管理其库存。通过增加全球供应链，更动态的产品生命周期和多渠道分销，传统的库存管理实践已被淘汰。该行业洞察力为分销公司提供重要的研究发现，供他们在制定库存管理技术决策时考虑。

• 大多数公司都将库存视为与成本相关的项目，但25％的公司将库存视为通过优质服务和产品可用性获得市场份额的一种方式

• 50％的公司仍不是在网络级别而是在位置级别进行管理

• 只有6％的分销公司为整个供应链中的库存创建了一个所有者。

• 40％的配电公司每两到五年检查一次网络设计

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