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Inventory Optmization through Safety Stock Schemata

Keywords: Complex Business Environment Stiff Competition, Working Capital, Inventory Optimization, Safety Stock Schemata, Increased Customer Service Level

Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology

Volume 32 ,  Issue 2

ABDUL  ALEEM,MUHAMMAD SHAHID  KHALIL,  

Abstract

In the complex business environment and stiff competition, inventory optimization in an industry's supply chain has gained tremendous significance. It has become business imperative to optimally tune the supply chain and save lot of working capital by reducing inventory levels; this can surely be done while increasing the customer service level and utilizing the internal capacities optimally. Stock out costs and stock surplus costs both impact businesses badly, the former in the form of opportunity loss and resultantly causing customer annoyance and later in high financial markups and increasing cost and reducing margins accordingly. So inventory optimization can essentially help to reduce costs, which results in a considerable improvement of the company performance indicators. Traditional IMS (Inventory Management System) followed in a selected manufacturing industry has been examined for all types of inventories, i.e. raw materials; WIP (Work In Process), and finished goods as a case study. The paper suggests an optimized inventory model for an organization to provide the best possible customer service within the restraint of the lowest practical inventory costs. The safety stock optimization was implemented in a complex business environment and considerable savings were realized thereof