Overcome the 5 Key Challenges of Inventory Management
Resource Description:
Intuit explains the effects of not addressing the 5 Key Challenges to Inventory Management, then explains how to properly mitigate or prevent those effects.
- One of the key problems can incur the following effects upon your business: Increase costs, lack of inventory balance, increased lead times and stock-outs, delayed shipping and delivery, etc.
Overcome the 5 Key Challenges of Inventory Management
What’s in stock, what’s on order, where stock is staged or stored, and where and when that stock is shipping… Inventory management is complex business. While the challenges are numerous, there are five that seem to cause small- and mid-sized business owners the most angst.
Here’s how these obstacles can be detrimental to businesses and how to overcome them.
- No real-time data on inventory statuses.
- Relying on manual processes.
- Ensuring everyone has access to the inventory information they need.
- Manual inventory control isn’t scalable.
- Software is too complex.
