logistics Inventory management during the crisis
In questi ultimi mesi abbiamo tutti sentito parlare di crisi e di ricette per passarla indenne.
Le aziende si sono mosse per trovare, spesso da sole, le contromisure gestionali da opporre alla congiuntura, dal punto di vista commerciale, di gestione della produzione, degli acquisti, e anche della logistica .
Oltre ai costi logistici correnti (operatività dei magazzini, trasporti), una spesso elevata voce di costo della funzione logistica di molte aziende, commerciali o manifatturiere, risiede nel costo delle scorte .
Have large stocks produces operating costs (more movements) and financial costs (freezing of liquidity in the form of materials in stock). During the crisis period the operating costs can be managed and intervening events fall on the flexibility of personnel and equipment inventory. The inventory costs can be managed with greater difficulty, given that at the time of market crisis, we are witnessing a stagnation in sales, resulting in accumulation of stocks of materials, if not treated promptly.
should be given to the warehouse, and logistics in general, with a logical flow . Consider all the moments and places of transit storage as part of a flow of goods, moving and sometimes halt until the next movement. Then, at a time when the market absorbs lower volumes, you should also reduce the scope of supply, to avoid the risk of over-saturate the stores.
So in general, in time of crisis should usually reduce inventory to reduce working capital, reduce risk of obsolescence of the goods and to avoid extra operating costs caused by the excessive saturation of the store.
There are exceptions: they concern the stocks of goods (finished and unfinished) directly derived from raw materials, and the cost of purchase in times of crisis, is reduced just because of the stagnation of the market.
In practice, if you have adequate financial liquidity, the moment of crisis can become one in which to exploit the fall in market prices, making speculative buying, putting into practice larger purchases at lower unit prices, thus resulting in significant economies. It 'important that the materials purchased at this time, however, have short periods of obsolescence, since otherwise the savings made by speculative buying would be annulled by the slow absorption of materials from the market, causing just the obsolescence of goods, and then dried in a financial loss.
Deepening the theme of inventory management.
Good logistics!
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