Precise Demand Planning

How to Calculate Optimal Inventory in Stockrooms and DCs

  One of the hardest tasks for distributors and their customers is to optimize the customers’ inventory levels, ensuring enough quantity ...

Carrying Costs in Inventory Management: A Guide to Reducing the Cost of Inventory in Your Business

    Holding inventory in your warehouse or stockroom is great for ensuring customers have access to what they need, when they ...

10 Ways eTurns Saves Distributors (and Their Customers) Time and Money

  Through automated replenishment at the point-of-use, eTurns helps distributors and their customers gain greater visibility into their inventory — and ...

4 Causes of Forecast Error and How Distributors Can Avoid Them

Reconsider relying on sales history alone, pre-determined inventory agreements, keeping rare items in stock, and depending on sales reps to ...

Cash is King: Find it in Your Customers' Inventory and Your Distribution Centers

In the midst of this global pandemic, many distributors are frantically reviewing their business plans and finances to determine their ...

What is Demand Planning? How Technology Can Help Distributors Improve Service Levels and Cut Carrying Costs

It can be a challenge to know exactly what customers need and stock accordingly. One element of successful supply chain ...

Reducing the Sales Rep's Role in Forecast Errors

Sales reps tend to hoard customer information, often leading to forecasting errors that can hurt both the company and customer. ...

COVID-19 Crisis: 3 ways distributors are prepping for what is ahead

    While the distributors we talk to daily are thankfully not sensing a huge downturn in business yet, many are preparing ...

How to Reduce Forecast Error: Focus on Usage Data, Not Sales History

  To forecast demand and plan inventory needs in their own distribution centers and at customer locations, distribution companies tend to ...

eTurns Featured in MDM: Beyond the Basics of Inventory Management

An inventory management solution can bring about quick fixes for a distributor, such as cutting back on shrinkage or eliminating ...

Supply House Times article: "Rock Rockwell: How to Compete Against Amazon"

Imagine if a distributor's “Very Important Customers,” comprising around 80% of revenue, used automated inventory replenishment technology to manage their ...

The Metrics Distributors Need to Optimize Their Distribution Centers

Rather than view the last 10 feet of the supply chain as the end of the road – what if ...

The Power of Precise Demand Planning™ to Compete Against Amazon

What if you viewed the last 10 feet of the supply chain differently? What if you saw it instead as ...