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February 27, 2007
Industry Directions Launches 'Demand-Driven Inventory Management' Study
Industry Directions Inc. today opened a new Survey for response on Demand-driven Inventory Management to study distribution-intensive supply chain practices and success.
Cummaquid, MA (PRWEB) February 26, 2007 -- Industry Directions Inc. today opened a new survey for response: Demand-driven Inventory Management. Aimed at distribution-intensive companies in manufacturing, wholesale, distribution, and retail, this survey asks about practices, software, and metrics used for inventory management. The survey seeks to quantify how effectively companies are creating dynamic and detailed inventory management practices to support the complexity of matching inventory with demand throughout the network.
The transformation from traditional and simple inventory forecasting, targeting, and planning processes to truly demand-driven processes and systems has many dimensions. One objective is to highlight inventory practices that propel outstanding inventory, supply chain, and business performance.
Industry Directions is seeking responses from all companies in distribution-intensive segments such as consumer goods, commodities, distribution, wholesale, and retail. Practitioners in these industries are invited to take the online survey at this URL http://www.industrydirections.com/show_survey.php?show1=946175&p1=IDj9fb2b&r1=1 , which will be open through mid-March.
The four sponsors underwriting this study provide deep and diverse expertise in inventory management for distribution-intensive industries. They are working together to increase the industry's understanding of how inventory management can be used to proactively ensure sound customer and business results. Sponsors for the study are: HighJump Software, a 3M company www.highjumpsoftware.com, Logility www.logility.com, Manhattan Associates www.manh.com, and ToolsGroup www.toolsgroup.com.
About Industry Directions
Industry Directions is an industry analyst firm that conducts research on the business processes and enabling technologies used in manufacturing value networks in specific vertical industries. These industries include every type of manufacturing, from pure process industries such as oil and gas to batch process such as food and pharmaceuticals to discrete such as automotive, electronics and aerospace, to mixed mode industries such as consumer durables. Areas of focus include supply chain, business-to-business, production, lean & other improvement initiatives, enterprise management, product lifecycle management and performance management. To learn more, visit: www.industrydirections.com.
Posted by Industrial-Manufacturing at February 27, 2007 08:20 PM