Inventory Management
Jason BaderJason Bader, The Distribution Team
Sunday, January 31, 2010
8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Price $250 per attendee
This special one-day presentation is limited to 60 attendees

Inventory is the lifeblood of your business. Get it right and you create customers for life. Get it wrong and you tie up your profits in dead stock. Anyone can teach you how to manage widgets in a warehouse, but only ANLA presents you with systems and strategies tailored to the unique challenges of Landscape Distribution.

Jason Bader, Managing Partner of the Distribution Team, has worked with Landscape Distributors from Chicago and Michigan to Atlanta and Florida learning about the broad range of business models and seasonality across the industry and the country. Jason knows that in our industry one size does not fit all. He will present systems and strategies that can adapt to large commodity yards, smaller specialty purveyors, complex computer systems and limited back office support.

You will leave with simple tools adaptable to Excel or your own inventory control software that you can immediately implement.

These are the dollars and cents decisions that will determine whether you make or lose money in this ever changing economy, rain or shine. Register today when you register for the 2010 ANLA Management Clinic.

Master Class Schedule

Start: 8:30am

  • Inventory as Cash
  • Driving Net Profit
  • Everyone’s Role in Inventory Management
  • How Customer Profitability Affects Inventory
  • Meeting the Inventory Needs of the Customers

Break: 10:00am

  • Turning Buyers into Investors
  • Distribution Performance Ratios – Turns, GMROII
  • Working with Growers
  • Communicating Expectations
  • Using System Reporting
  • Product Movement Analysis
  • Yard Logistics and Customer Service
  • Bin Locations & Yard Layout

Lunch: 12:00pm

  • Dead Stock Management
  • New Item Consideration
  • Disposition Strategies & Waste Reduction
  • Inventory Accuracy
  • Annual Counts vs. Cycle Counts
  • Technology in the Yard

Break: 2:30pm

  • Understanding Ordering Controls
  • Predicting Seasonal Usage
  • Timing Components of Purchasing
  • Quantity Components of Purchasing
  • Diagnosing Problems in System Controls
  • Special Buying Situations
  • Impact of Cash Discounts

Conclude: 4:30pm

 
 
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