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Inventory Optimisation

Follows on from Supply Chain Management and Operations Management, for planners, buyers and finance staff who set stock policies. Learn to classify items with ABC-XYZ analysis, set order quantities with the EOQ and lot-sizing rules, calculate safety stock for a chosen service level, choose review policies, and manage slow movers, excess stock and stock across a network. Every method comes with worked examples, and the course closes with targets, governance and a full case.

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Modules
7
Lessons
33
Duration
7h 5m
Level
Intermediate
Quizzes
7 graded

Course content

7 modules · 33 lessons · 7h 5m

What inventory optimisation tries to achieve, the three families of cost it balances — holding, ordering and shortage — and the stock policy decisions the rest of the course works through.

  • What Inventory Optimisation Is For
    Preview
    12 min
  • Holding Cost: Capital, Storage and Obsolescence13 min
  • Ordering Cost and Shortage Cost12 min
  • The Total Cost Trade-off13 min
  • The Stock Policy Decisions and Who Makes Them12 min
  • The Purpose and Costs of Inventory — quiz8 questions · pass 70%

Topics covered

Inventory Management
Safety Stock
Economic Order Quantity
Service Levels
Supply Chain Planning
Working Capital

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