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These three on-demand web seminars provide an excellent way to quickly learn more about inventory optimization. The first seminar touches on the key points of inventory optimization with a series of short chapters, such as “The Three Dimensions of Inventory Optimization”. The second seminar focuses on how offshore sourcing impacts inventory levels and how they can be optimized. The third seminar focuses on SIOP (Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning) and how it differs from a more traditional S&OP process. Each seminar includes a question and answer session.

On-Demand Web Seminar: Keys to Inventory Optimization Success (Session 1 of 3)	On-Demand Web Seminar: How to Mitigate the Impact of Global Sourcing on Inventory Levels (Session 2 of 3)	On-Demand Web Seminar: Inventory Optimization in S&OP (Session 3 of 3)
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On-Demand Web Seminar: Keys to Inventory Optimization Success (Session 1 of 3) Presenters: Dan Gilmore - Editor, Supply Chain Digest Jeff Meresky - Vice President, Supply Chain Strategy Practice, Chainalytics Joe Shamir - CEO, ToolsGroup, Inc. In this excellent three-part Videocast series, we'll take you from the basics to the details, providing the insight and education you need to better assess this opportunity for your organization. In this first seminar, you will learn the fundamentals in eight 5-minute chapters: • Why inventory optimization? • The Three dimensions of Inventory Optimization • Impact on earnings performance and working capital and a real world example • A customer survey. What do existing users say are the biggest roadblocks? • Is your organization ready? Understanding the symptoms • Master data management – a key issue • Network and process modeling – Important Do’s and Don’ts • Building the right team, before and after go-live Followed by Interactive Q+A Session! Back to top
On-Demand Web Seminar: How to Mitigate the Impact of Global Sourcing on Inventory Levels (Session 2 of 3) Presenters: Dan Gilmore - Editor, Supply Chain Digest Girish Bakshi - Director of Solutions, ToolsGroup Mike Jones - President, St. Onge Global sourcing has become a central part of many companies’ supply chain strategy. The shift towards low-cost country sourcing started in the 1990’s and has accelerated into this decade. Benefits of outsourcing have yielded capital margin and efficiency improvements. The rise of outsourcing also has brought risks and challenges. Many companies who have made the move to overseas sourcing have discovered a significant negative impact on their overall inventory levels. Join our 2 industry experts as they explain the Impact of Global Sourcing on Inventory Levels. Our presenters will review models for the management of global supply chain sourcing, current practices, goals, benefits and trends. By attending this web seminar, you will gain further insight into: • Supply chain considerations in comparing offshore versus domestic sourcing decisions • How to minimize the inventory impact of global sourcing • Risks during NPI and EOL decisions in outsourced supply chains • How global sourcing may impact domestic distribution network strategy • How global supply chains limit domestic inventory options • How longer overseas lead times impact safety stocks • The impact on earnings performance and working capital – a real world example • Large in-transit inventories. How to get the right inventory on the boat Followed by Interactive Q+A Session! Back to top
On-Demand Web Seminar: Inventory Optimization in S&OP (Session 3 of 3) Presenters: Dan Gilmore - Editor, Supply Chain Digest Joe Shamir - CEO, ToolsGroup, Inc. Steve Spratt - Vice President, Supply Chain Process Improvement, Inc. You may have seen web seminars before on S&OP. This ISN’T one of them! It’s about SIOP: Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning. Join us for Part 3 of this powerful series of Web Seminars on inventory optimization. You will learn how SIOP differs from S&OP and who should take advantage of it. Here is a sample of what you will learn: • Why upgrade from S&OP to SIOP? • Why go directly to SIOP (and skip S&OP)? • A step by step comparison of S&OP and SIOP • How mid-sized companies and divisions under €1 billion can jump start their S&OP process • Key SIOP Implementation Challenges • How to inject Customer Service Levels directly into the S&OP Process • An SIOP Case Study: Before and After Followed by Interactive Q+A Session! Back to top