A 23-page guide: why inventory control drives your profitability, ten practices to put in place right away, and the questions to ask before you change systems.
Ever found yourself without the product a customer just ordered? Or stuck with obsolete inventory taking up valuable space and tying up your cash flow? A distributor stocks thousands of distinct SKUs, and managing that inventory is a constant balancing act: too much stock and your cash is locked up, too little and you lose sales.
This guide explains why inventory control weighs so heavily on an SMB distributor, from customer satisfaction to compliance, by way of cash flow and waste. It then lays out ten concrete best practices to put in place, from ordering procedures through to perpetual inventory.
It closes with two tools you can use as they are: a checklist to decide whether it is time for a new system, and ten questions to ask when comparing the options on the market.
What's inside:
- What makes inventory control a challenge in today’s market
- Why inventory control matters for SMB distributors: 10 reasons
- 10 inventory control best practices
- Checklist: is it time for a new inventory control system?
- 10 questions to evaluate different inventory control systems
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