I would appreciate any recommendations.

I am sure there will be many readers who are not from manufacturing industry but from services, will like to benefit from. I would like to read your new blog on 3PL inventory strategies. In Table 2, we show how a supply chain technology firm, working alongside a government customer, drove dramatic results for taxpayers and end users. Anne, Well it can be quantified based on cost.. let us say for 1 hour work it costs 35 $ then for 12 days keeping 8 hours of work a day = 12*8*35=3360 $ its very easy . The survey went on to rank the twenty most favored practices. This added to your time saving you are likly to get some good benefits. Inventory reduction eliminates obsolete stock, which if not sold under dire circumstances, will go to complete waste and cash flow down the drain. Inventory Management. Lead time impacts more on your inventory carryover cost and cash flow. If you just reduced the lead time (and not the time taken to produce the product), then I don’t see any significant reduction in cost.

Sam, Your time saving will be a huge benefit to your business, you will find you will also get a significant benefit by reducing your inventory if you haven’t already done so both in raw materials as wells as finish goods If the customer doesn’t pay until they have the product in hand, then you should be able to recognize the investment income from the accelerated revenue stream. I would appreciate any recommendations. You can take inventory analysis a step further by using the inventory turn rate to calculate the number of days it takes for a business to clear its inventory. Input new values in cells A1 and B1 to calculate cost savings percentage on other purchases. We help businesses of all sizes operate more efficiently and delight customers by delivering defect-free products and services. For example, a simple Excel-­‐based calculator created by Telema can be used. You can calculate these costs based on what you’re already paying your employees. The results were an eye opening 27% reduction in inventory level, an increase of in-store service levels to 99%, and a 20% increase in forecast accuracy. iSixSigma is your go-to Lean and Six Sigma resource for essential information and how-to knowledge. Our Finance departement is having problems to quantify the savings resulting from this improvement. and again multiply with 0.1(interest rate ).this will give you the total direct saving . just check the yearly sales volume .

Top five inventory reduction methods We’ve written numerous blog posts on ways to reduce excess and obsolete inventory and lower inventory carrying costs. 2) Any quality checks that have been removed Join 61,000+ other smart change agents and insiders on our weekly newsletter, read by corporate change leaders of: Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total), Converting Attribute Data (Pass/Fail) to a 1-10 Scale, Justify Converting a “Non-scheduled Process” to Be a “Scheduled Process”, Case Study: Streamlining a Hiring Process, Estimation Method Helps Analysis of Truncated Data Sets, Combine Machine Learning with Lean Six Sigma, Thought Process Map for Six Sigma: What, Why and How, Checking Simple Linear Regression Analysis Using 5S, Case Study: Salvaging a Call Center's Big Software Investment, Scorecard: Linking Strategy to Performance Objectives, DOE for Services: Right Training Makes It a Valuable Tool, Remember Common Cause Variation in Fight Against Process Waste, The 7 Secrets to Leading Multigenerational Teams, This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated. According to Karen Lay-Brew, CIO and vice president of knowledge services of BHP Billiton, regularly listed examples of hard savings are: reduction in unit cost of operation (e.g. devide that with 365 and then multiply with (50-40)= 10 . You will be able to Email this report to yourself on the report screen. Pro Eng. Or, if you haven’t yet hired someone to fill a roll and you’re curious how much automation would save, you can look at industry labor costs. Anne. Come on, lead time is NOT correlated with labor unit cost as long as your throughput remains unchanged. Six Sigma – iSixSigma › Forums › Old Forums › Finance › How to Quantify Lead Time Reductions, We recently launched a Six Sigma Project to reduce the Manufacturing Lead Time from 12days to 5 days. Six Sigma – iSixSigma › Forums › Old Forums › General › Cost savings from inventory reduction. December 13, 2005 at 4:20 am #41712. cag070781 ★★★★★★★★★★ Participant. iSixSigma is your go-to Lean and Six Sigma resource for essential information and how-to knowledge. Posts. 0. One handy tool to estimate the net benefits (all potential savings minus all potential costs) when switching to VMI is to use a VMI savings calculator. Do you have any more ideas of inventory reduction or a good inventory management techniques for a 3PL dealing mainly for retailers. As competition increases, logistics businesses must take a few straightforward steps to reduce inventory costs to stay in the game. Diversify cash flow across your business instead of investing it all in inventory. Join 61,000+ other smart change agents and insiders on our weekly newsletter, read by corporate change leaders of: Viewing 7 posts - 1 through 7 (of 7 total), Converting Attribute Data (Pass/Fail) to a 1-10 Scale, Justify Converting a “Non-scheduled Process” to Be a “Scheduled Process”, Case Study: Streamlining a Hiring Process, Estimation Method Helps Analysis of Truncated Data Sets, Combine Machine Learning with Lean Six Sigma, Thought Process Map for Six Sigma: What, Why and How, Checking Simple Linear Regression Analysis Using 5S, Case Study: Salvaging a Call Center's Big Software Investment, Scorecard: Linking Strategy to Performance Objectives, DOE for Services: Right Training Makes It a Valuable Tool, Remember Common Cause Variation in Fight Against Process Waste, The 7 Secrets to Leading Multigenerational Teams, This topic has 6 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated.
You are no longer holding the inventory in your plant as long as you used too. For a full ROI report for your corporation, please schedule an introductory call here with our team . The traditional view of hard savings is pretty standard. The forum ‘Finance’ is closed to new topics and replies. So your savings is 3360 $-1400$=1960 $.. For example, say you also purchased a lamp for $10 that originally cost $17. You can set up the calculation in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel but you can also calculate cost savings by hand. Regards Some other things to concider: But be careful in double counting your benefits. Any competent accountant shall be able to figure out such hard savings. Here we’re going to focus on our favorite top five inventory reduction strategies. Because you entered formulas into the other cells, Excel will automatically update the cost savings percentage when you change the original price or the final price, or both. Ask the finance people about carrying cost – they should be able to take it from there…. Thank you for your inputs. We are honored to serve the largest community of process improvement professionals in the world. 1. For example, a small company has $10 million worth of inventory, …