Inventory Management - Too Much vs Not Enough

Join UWEBC member companies to discuss factors that contribute to identifying - and achieving - the optimal inventory position for your supply chain.

- 11:00 AM

Description

Just like when Goldilocks visits the Three Bears, companies are looking for an inventory position that is neither "too much", nor "too little", but instead is just right. But how much inventory is "just right" and how do you know when you've achieved the optimal inventory position?

Many companies experienced both inventory extremes - and the results of the "bullwhip effect" - during the pandemic. As demand spiked, inventories ran lean ("too little"), and product was unavailable. In the 12 months that followed, safety stock grew past customer demand, resulting in bloated inventories and offsite storage needs ("too much"). As the excess inventory of 2023 continues to receed, companies are struggling to quantify their optimal inventory position somewhere in between these extremes to get to "just right".

Join Tim Ziarnik, Senior Director of Supply Chain and Distribution at Spectrum Brands, and fellow UWEBC member companies in discussing how to quantify your company's optimal inventory position, as well as how to achieve those results.

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Agenda Items

9:00 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
  Jenny Patzlaff - Supply Chain Practice Director, UWEBC
9:15 AM Member Spotlight: Spectrum Brands
  Tim Ziarnik - Senior Director, Supply Chain and Distribution
9:45 AM Member Spotlight Panel
 

Stu Heil – Systems Manager, Sourcing, Greenheck

John Cavey – Director of Sales/Inventory/Ops Planning, Brunswick Corporation

10:15 AM Breakout Discussions - Discuss and Apply
  All Participants
10:50 AM Debrief on Breakout Discussions
  All Participants
10:55 AM Wrap Up
  Jenny Patzlaff - Supply Chain Practice Director, UWEBC
11:00 AM Adjourn
 

Additional Information

Location: Zoom
Contact: Events Team, events@uwebc.wisc.edu