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Proper inventory levels keep your entire operation running smoothly. When you optimize your inventories—so the right products in the right amounts are in the right place at the right time—you're able to provide reliable deliveries to your customers while controlling inventory costs...a goal that's vital to your success.

However, the demands of the global process marketplace make this balancing act more problematic than ever. Distribution networks are increasing in size and complexity, multiplying the difficulty of inventory decisions. Your customers demand shorter lead times and faster deliveries, creating pressure to increase rather than decrease inventory levels. Efficiency targets for your production lines dictate longer runs for each product, resulting in larger stockpiles. Most important, unbalanced inventories are a significant drain on working capital at a time when you're under tremendous pressure to keep costs down.

Four key capabilities are critical to unlocking the benefits of optimized inventories:

In-depth Analysis - to evaluate past practices and target future inventory strategies
Process production encompasses many types of inventory: raw material, work-in-progress, in-test material, rework/scrap material, products in transit, safety stock, and cycle stock. Changes in one component can significantly impact others. Smaller batch sizes reduce work-in-process levels, but also reduce productivity. Cycle times can be shortened to reduce cycle stock, but doing so increases the time spent making production transitions. Optimizing the distribution network and rationalizing inventories at each point in that network are the keys to an efficient supply chain.

Our inventory targeting capability calculates all the components of inventory at every point in the supply chain to help you maximize inventory efficiency. It compares historical forecasts to actual sales data and models all the processes that contribute to inventory, allowing you to quickly identify problem areas and make adjustments that decrease inventory without reducing customer service. At each point in the supply chain, you get the information you need to determine optimum inventory levels and redeploy the excess to improve service at high-priority locations.


Flexible Optimization Tools - that weigh production and inventory tradeoffs
Our flexible optimization tools help you minimize the combined costs of manufacturing and inventory without sacrificing service. These tools allow you to examine all the factors that contribute to inventory costs, such as cycle times and cycle stock levels, production line transition costs, inventory tradeoffs and minimizing costs. The WAM solution enables you to set realistic inventory policies that support both good service and good profit margins.


Efficient Network Design - for a distribution system that moves materials at the lowest cost
With ever increasing numbers of products and delivery points, an efficient distribution network is vital to controlling inventory costs. Our solution optimizes the supply chain network by finding the most economical way to supply each customer, such as changing distribution locations to support more frequent service, changing transportation modes to reduce costs, packaging changes, or improving forecasts to reduce overall inventory levels. The result is a cost-effective distribution system that minimizes inventory costs while maintaining acceptable customer service levels.


Powerful Reporting Systems - that monitor, measure and communicate performance
Our Supply Chain Event Monitor maintains an up-to-the-minute simulation of your supply chain into the future, so you can rapidly identify problems and take corrective actions to maintain a balanced inventory. Deviations from the plan are instantly highlighted in on-screen consoles and through our Reporting Engine assuring that the performance of every inventory decision point in the supply chain is measured and communicated continuously.

The WAM solution supports all of these capabilities and delivers the information you need to successfully manage inventories and make the right decision in a complex and competitive marketplace. Our supply chain analysis and optimizing tools will help you control inventory levels, reduce working capital requirements, and position your products for maximum profitability, which means a better bottom line for your company.