Are you looking for new improved ways to manage your distribution enterprises inventory? Please join us for an informative webcast presenting recent Aberdeen research indicating that 50% of today’s distribution companies still determine stocking quantities and inventory policies at the local level. The benefits of managing inventory at a network level include mitigating transportation time, costs, and capacity constraints. Companies managing at a network level are also able to streamline the decisions of where and how much inventory to place as well as how to optimally design their network.

Register for this webcast and learn how to:

• Improve inventory management and streamline decision making
• Enhance inventory visibility throughout your distribution network
• Leverage investments in inventory management technologies

Rugs Direct, Inc. will present a real life case study on how they improved their inventory management practices. Rugs Direct distributes about 80% of their orders across 60 vendors so it was very important for them to manage this at a network rather than a local level. Rugs Direct implemented Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) technology coupled with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software and other technologies to effectively manage their inventory across their multi-site distribution environment.