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Vendor-Managed Inventory for Strategic Advantage
Speaker: George
J. Miller, President
PROACTION Management Consultants
"Vendors
that survive the ongoing shakeout will do so because
they offer what customers need and what competitors
can’t match. Assuming that the primary products
and pricing are competitive, service becomes the next
big battleground. Traditionally, customers have forecasted
demand, planned supply orders, managed logistics for,
received, stored and accounted for materials. Much
of this can also be done by suppliers, often better,
cheaper and faster. This is a case study about a successful
customer/vendor partnership to do just that. Service
rose from the 70’s to 100%, inventory turns
doubled, administrative procedures were streamlined,
and shipping costs halved. Download paper from www.proaction.net.
George
will address:
- What
is VMI?
- Why
is it needed?
- How
does it work?
- What
are the pitfalls?
About
Our Speaker . . .
George
J. Miller is President of PROACTION (www.proaction.net),
an Oak Park, CA management consulting and education
firm, focused on dramatic improvements through better
operations management and business systems, which
he founded in 1986, based in Oak Park, CA. He has
worked with dozens of companies in assignments involving
productivity, quality and service improvement, business
systems design and implementation, operations improvement,
operational audits, expert witness testimony, and
others, in several industries. The firm works in business
systems change management, including ERP & Business
Process Reengineering/process improvement.
Prior
to founding PROACTION in 1986, he was Vice President
of Marketing for Western Data Systems; Director of
Planning and Development, and Assistant Director,
Operations for Purolator Technologies; Consultant
for Booz-Allen & Hamilton; and Manufacturing Systems
Manager for Becton-Dickinson. Contact at 818-706-2200,
gmiller@proaction.net.
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