Lead Time – A Critical Link in the Chain

A few quick money saving Lead Time ideas. Are you ready to find the profits buried in your lead times?

Lead Time – A Critical Link in the Chain

Lead times drive business decisions every day for departments across your organization. When to place orders, how much to order, whether to charge vendors for late shipments. It’s important your lead times are as accurate possible. Unfortunately, lead times are often an afterthought, making them the weakest link in many supply chains. Do you struggle with inaccurate lead times and the resulting financial effects?

7 Reasons Your Lead Time is Wrong (And It’s Costing You Millions)

• Ignoring internal lead times – The easiest lead time to forget is time from distribution center to store. Those days can add up quickly and leave you with lost sales if not carefully managed.
• Using only vendor-quoted lead time – All your vendors supply you with a standard lead time. Do you know if that lead time is correct? If they are shipping even a day before or after the quoted lead time, it is costing you money.
• Using the same lead time for every item – Some items take more time than others for vendors to produce or more time for your distribution center to pick. If you are applying lead times too broadly, you are missing opportunities to tighten your supply chain.

In the News

Data Profits Empowers a Demand-driven Strategy for Retailers Gearing up for Holiday Shopping

ATLANTA, October 13, 2015 – For retailers, planning for the 2015 holiday shopping season – the season that can make or break the sales year—has been in process for months. In the case of shelf-stable stock, large purchase orders are already sitting on retail shelves. Leveraging technology to deliver actionable insights and forecasts, Data Profits provides retailers with the tools to ensure a profitable, nearly worry-free holiday season. Retailers can now take advantage of their free download “Data Profits 5 Step Checklist for Retailers to Gear Up for Holiday Shopping Season.”

“Demand forecasting is about giving consumers what they want,” explains Stuart Dunkin, founder of Data Profits. “Retailers must obey the three Rs – right product, right place, right time – because today, consumers have so many limitless options.”

Is Lead Time Forecasting Your Missing Link?

Read more about how lead time forecasting can tighten your supply chain, increase your sales, lower your inventory,, and help you serve your customers in our Lead Time Blogs. Ready to discuss how iKIS from Data Profits can fix your lead time problems? Contact Us today!

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Stuart D

Stuart Dunkin is a strategic visionary who leads by calling on his broad range of experience as a former retail executive as well as a consultant for top retailers and for the E3/JDA software company. He founded Data Profits to solve a real-world problem plaguing retailers today – the disjointed relationship between supply chain data, people and business goals. He has experienced first-hand the challenges and frustrations that occur when decisions are made based on wrong data, which often leads to the wrong actions being taken with crippling results like overstock, out-of-stock, and increased working capital.
Stuart graduated from Auburn University, with bachelor of science in business administration.

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