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Total Marks: 20
Inventory Analysis Report
Background
- Brief introduction and history of your brand and its parent company
- 5 year trend of sales and profits for the industry, and your brand, by year
- Macro environmental factors impacting your brand and its industry
- Market share for the brand and 2-3 key competitors for the most recent
year
- Number of variants of the brand
Inventory Analysis
- Type of product
- Product life cycle stages of various variants
- Product strategy used
- Composition of modularity for each product
- ABC Inventory Classification
- Inventory Policy
Storage/Warehousing
- Warehousing requirements and existing warehousing strategy
- Types of Inventory stored i.e. Finished goods, Work in Process, Raw
Material etc
- Warehousing Cost Structure
Vendor Management
- Key Suppliers
- Types of Inventory sourced
- Concept of VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) and its implications
- Credit Policy
Procurement Policy
- Types of items procured
- Existing procurement policy (speculative incase existing policy is not
available)
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Distribution Network and Logistics Requirement
- Location Strategy
- 3PL Management
- Distribution Network Analysis
- Present a discussion of how you would alter the situation described above
to improve the effectiveness of the Organization selected.
- Organize your thoughts according to the elements of Inventory
Management discussed throughout the course.
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