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- Quick Response Stock Replenishment - Lucas-Bear & Associates, Inc.
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- KEYWORDS: stock management, Manufacturing , 215
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- Quick Response enables vendor managed inventory processes for trading
- partnerships. The system generates a viable forecast which provides an
- estimate of future demand by product, by week to assist in inventory decision
- making. The modeling techniques can be reviewed and modified on-line by the
- user.
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- Using product sales history, the system offers a choice of several
- established replenishment techniques to compute order quantity, safety stock
- and reorder points that take into account the forecast, order constraints,
- desired service levels, and lead time. When available inventory dips below
- the reorder point, and order is generated for the item's replenishment order
- quantity.
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- These item order quantities are gathered together in replenishment sets.
- Various minima and maxima for the sets may be defined in terms of weight,
- volume, number of cases, pallets, etc. These joint order constraints are then
- compared to the sum of the individual replenishment order quantities for all
- items in a group and filled up or down depending upon severity indices.
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- Lucas-Bear & Associates, Inc.
- Tel: (215) 836-5161
- Fax: (215) 836-2305
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