Service
Inventory and planning
Too much of the wrong stock and not enough of the right
-24%
working capital tied up in stock, twelve months after handover
Service levels and working capital are usually treated as a trade-off. Most of the time they are both symptoms of a planning process nobody owns.
What the engagement includes
A count of what is actually on hand, not what the system says · Demand segmentation by how predictable each line really is · Reorder points rebuilt from the numbers, not from habit · One planner trained to keep it running after we leave