Any Company buys and resells a wide range of personal care products. Their ongoing challenges, like many of their competitors include shipping time for purchases, optimizing use of their storage space, and shipping time for sales to their customers.   The company’s control over shipping time for purchases is limited. Their choice of suppliers has more impact on shipping time than any encouragement they can offer to those suppliers. Any Company uses multiple warehouses. Some are owned by the company, others are leased. The company uses contract shippers, FedEx/UPS, and the US Postal Service.   Your task is to identify at least 4 KPIs you think will be relevant for Any Company to understand and improve their inventory management. Identify the data necessary for your KPIs as specifically as possible. You may use any KPIs we have mentioned in class or from the labs. Feel free to use others or to create your own. Your response does not need to include a description of graphs you might create for these measures

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Any Company buys and resells a wide range of personal care products. Their ongoing challenges, like many of their competitors include shipping time for purchases, optimizing use of their storage space, and shipping time for sales to their customers.

 

The company’s control over shipping time for purchases is limited. Their choice of suppliers has more impact on shipping time than any encouragement they can offer to those suppliers. Any Company uses multiple warehouses. Some are owned by the company, others are leased. The company uses contract shippers, FedEx/UPS, and the US Postal Service.

 

Your task is to identify at least 4 KPIs you think will be relevant for Any Company to understand and improve their inventory management. Identify the data necessary for your KPIs as specifically as possible. You may use any KPIs we have mentioned in class or from the labs. Feel free to use others or to create your own. Your response does not need to include a description of graphs you might create for these measures

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