Inventory is frozen cash on the shelf, but selling it is even more expensive. Every planner fluctuates between those two truths, and too often it happens based on experience and gut feeling rather than evidence.
In two days you get the toolbox: predicting what can be predicted, safety stocks that match your service goals, and the right ordering strategy per item group. You use real datasets so that on Monday you know what else you’re going to do.
Demand and supply planners, inventory managers, buyers with inventory responsibility, and supply chain professionals in manufacturing, wholesale, and retail.
Previous knowledge: basic experience with plans or inventory; comfortable with Excel.
Your trainers optimize inventories and planning processes in trading and manufacturing companies, including Elias de Haan [verify]. They know from experience which theory survives in practice, and which does not.
No, deliberately not. We work with Excel and universal principles, so that you can apply what you learn to any system, from ERP modules to custom-made tools. The mindset is the product, not the buttons.
Absolutely, exactly then. A significant part of the training is about what to do when predictions don't come true: differentiation, buffers in the right places, and agreements with suppliers to absorb uncertainty.
60 minutes of intake + 5 working days of analysis + feedback. Free of charge and without obligation.
