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Rutgers University

Inventory Analytics

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Inventory analytics is the corner stone of supply chain analytics. A company in trade industries may have 30-50% of their assets tied up in inventory. An effective inventory management can improve revenue by increasing product variety and availability, and reduce cost and speed up cash cycle by reducing excessive inventory and waste. Through real-life examples (e.g., Macy’s vs. Ross Stores), you will learn hands-on tools and skills to discover and solve inventory problems by data analytics. Upon completion, you can answer the following questions: 1. For which industries is inventory important and relevant? 2. How may inventory drive a company’s financial performance? 3. How do I know that I have an inventory problem? 4. How to classify inventory and manage it accordingly? Note: This course is for beginners and practitioners, and so it provides practical data-driven analytics for business inventory management, including inventory metrics, inventory problem diagnosis, the financial impact of inventory, and practical techniques of inventory management, rather than the mathematical models of inventory control that you can find in many other courses.

Syllabus

  • The Value and Impact of Inventory
    • Welcome to inventory analytics - the corner-stone of supply chain analytics. In this week, you will first learn the story of Macy’s and Ross Stores, then get an overview of the course, including the value, trend, breakdown, and economic indication of inventory in the US and around the world.
  • In Which Industries Is Inventory Important?
    • The importance of inventory is industry and country dependent but time independent. In this week, you will learn to identify the importance of inventory in various industries (and countries) by two metrics: Inventory over total assets and inventory turns (or days).
  • How May Inventory Drive Financials and How to Diagnose Inventory Problems?
    • Why do companies hold inventory and why not? How may inventory drive a company’s financial performance? How do I know that I have an inventory problem? You will be able to answer these questions in this week.
  • Classifying and Managing Inventory
    • Some products are more important than others for inventory management; the inventory of different products may be managed in different ways. In this week, you will learn how to classify inventory and manage it accordingly.

Taught by

Yao Zhao

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  • Anonymous
    inventory analytics course is most important for inventory controllers because we can find the path how can we observe oue sale as compare to our raw material expenses, how much percentage our sale in last four months, how can we fulfill the demand of our customers by with quentity and quality. we can easily find the proper ratio of production and ratio of sales in differnt areas and we can easily find out which month we sold more products and which month was minimum number of sale, which product more sold and which product is moving slow in the market. At conclusion i ask that we boost out business with the help of inventory analytics.
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