In many corporate systems, inventory is often taken for granted and is usually considered as the poor relation to trade-offs in sales and production. However this key logistics related area must receive appropriate management attention to ensure that it is given proper consideration in total corporate evaluations, representing a large portion of capital investment.

EMM Logistics offer industry a complete review of all aspects appropriate to the effective management of inventory.

Through this comprehensive review the consultants are able to report on and make recommendations on the following areas:

• Stock control methods
• Relating inventory investment to profit
• The relationship between inventory levels, customer order patterns and transport resources
• The use of computers to facilitate the prediction and monitoring of stock levels utilising state-of-the-art demand algorithms
• Procedures to increase inventory velocity, cope with the effects of stockouts and establish optimum stock levels both safety and operational and optimum stock flows for product segments
• Determining appropriate re-order point and re-order quantities within cycles that achieve requirements of customer service and return on controlled capital