Inventory Analysis & Reporting

Stratum's inventory metrics and reports put you in control of your inventory by helping you …

  • Control inventory costs
  • Improve service levels with the right product availability
  • Better manage your inventory assets (which is often 40% -50% of total corporate assets)
  • Prevent costly inventory build-up
  • Keep out-of-stocks from happening

The Inventory performance areas addressed by Stratum include …

  • Inventory Trends & Analysis

    • Inventory Trends
    • Turns
    • Usage
    • Inventory Mix
    • Inventory Value

Inventory Trends & Analysis

  • Stratum makes inventory scorecarding a breeze, with key built-in metrics that let you see how your inventory is trending over time …
    • Inventory to Sales Ratio
    • End of Life Inventory
    • Asset Turns
    • Inventory Mix Value
    • Gross Margin Return on Inventory (GMROI)
    • Inventory Accuracy
    • Inventory Cycle Counting Accuracy
  • Inventory Planning & Optimization

    • Safety Stock
    • Carrying Cost
    • Inventory Levels
    • Lead Time
    • Reorder Point

Inventory Planning & Optimization

  • Use Stratum’s pre-built inventory calculations to improve your inventory planning & management capabilities by …
    • Easily analyzing safety stock
    • Maintaining an ongoing pulse on your inventory levels
    • Better assessing your reorder points
    • Determining your inventory carrying costs more accurately
    • Analyzing planned vs. actual lead times for more accurate inventory plans in the future
  • Inventory Position & Projections

    • Available to Promise
    • Days of Supply
    • Stock Status
    • Inventory Validation
    • Projected Shortages
    • Excess Inventory

Inventory Position & Projections

  • Rely on Stratum to project inventory more accurately and better manage your inventory positions. It’s easy to do with packaged analytics that measure …
    • Available to promise (ATP)
    • Days of supply
    • Stock status
    • Inventory valuation
    • Projected shortages
    • Excess inventory
KPI Guide Picture

The Definitive Guide to Defining & Delivering Effective Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

If you're looking to gain more knowledge about the meaning of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), the value they can offer to your business, how to plan and collaborate around them and so much more, download our recently published guide to KPIs.

Get Silvon’s KPI Guide

Relevant Inventory Analysis & Performance Management Articles

Supporting S&OP with Stakeholder & Supply Chain KPIs

KPIs are essential in S&OP as they provide a quantitative framework for gaining visibility, aligning efforts, supporting decision-making, and driving continuous improvement across the business. But how do you…

How to Define a Performance Measurement Strategy

While clearly important in today’s constantly changing business environment, so many companies continue to struggle with how to measure and improve their performance – grappl…

5 Balanced Scorecards for Manufacturers

The balanced scorecard is a powerful tool for helping companies improve their performance. It provides a clear and concise way to measure progress towards strategic goals, and it helps…

Improving S&OP with Forecasting Analytics & Business Intelligence

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a consensus-based communications process that provides insight and control over a company’s supply chain decisions. While a manufacturi…

The Value of Linking KPIs with KRIs

In today’s post-COVID era, emerging risks will continue to impact many areas. Government, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals will likely maintain a focus on strengthening their …

Using Analytics To Address Supply Chain Challenges

Supply chain challenges stemming from the pandemic and other global events continue to plague manufacturing and distribution companies.  Logistics disruptions, production delays, an over reliance on…

Supply Chain KPIs & Metrics: Our Top 24 for Manufacturers

Supply chain performance KPIs are invaluable measurements that support the growth and success of a company’s supply, fulfillment and delivery efforts. In fact, such KPIs are so…

32 KPIs That Drive Inventory Optimization

Inventory can be a manufacturer's most important asset. Too little of it when and where it's needed can create unhappy customers. But a large inventory has its own liabilities such as cost to store and insure it, along with the…

Why You Can't Be Successful with Your Sales & Operations Analysis Using Excel or Power BI Alone

There’s no doubt. Power BI is powerful. It’s highly visual. And on a self-service level, it packs a real punch in letting business analysts and other advanced users build simple reports and visually appealing dashboards from live data sources. Excel’s a real powerhouse, too, and not surprisingly …

Supply Chain Dashboards - Key Metrics For Manufacturers

As I mentioned in my previous post, Sales Dashboards - 16 Metrics for Manufacturers, a strategy for measuring business performance should also incorporate metrics that focus on the supply chain and othe…

Why a Modern Data Hub is Crucial for Visualization and Other Analytic Tools

There’s a lot of interest in data visualization tools right now, and rightfully so. These products make it very easy for business analysts and others to create eye-catching dashboards that highlight key business performance information.  However, the am…

Value of Analytics for Wholesale Distributors

Analytics can help wholesale distributors maximize profits, but it isn’t just about gaining insights from the data. It’s only those distributors who use the data to reveal where the inefficiencies are (and then act on fixing these problem areas) that truly thrive. Thanks to…

Using Analytics to Manage Inventory

It’s true that inventory management is a challenge for both manufacturers and distributors. Each supply management issue that can arise has repercussions. For example, excess inventory can cause a decrease in product turnover and a loss of profits, while stock-outs can cause backorders, unhappy …

Using Data To Align Your Sales and Supply Chain Teams

Ensuring that your sales and supply chain teams are in sync is one way that you can enhance the customer experience. However, this does pose some challenges because the end goals of these teams don’t always match. This challenge is further compounded by the global nature of many …

Operational Analytics: The Benefits Are BIG For Manufacturers

Recent benchmark surveys of C-level executives at manufacturing businesses indicate that the focus of business analytics is shifting from customer insights to analyzing (and driving improvements in) operational performance. As a matter of fact, research shows that …

Silvon Software Inc. One Mid America Plaza, 3rd Floor, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 • 800 874 5866 • Fax: 630 655 3377 info@silvon.com
Link to our Home page • Copyright ® 2023 Silvon Software Inc. • All rights reserved.Our Privacy Policy