TUG CONNECTS 2024: ignite!

Join Inventory Management expert Grant Howard for a “Best Practices” discussion on how to maximize your company’s inventory investment impact and ROI. Many distributors struggle with proper inventory management and many distributors forget that INVENTORY is the reason for their being! Best Practices inventory management plays a critical role in the success of increased revenue, maximized profits and stellar customer experience. To survive and thrive today, distributors have to balance the objectives of profits, customer service, company longevity and employee happiness. Now more than ever distributors must understand how to utilize their people, processes and technology to drive smart inventory investment and results.

Grant will discuss best practices concepts and techniques that allow a distributor to offer stellar customer service while realizing improved returns on their inventory investment. Fill Rates, Turns, Freight Spend, Total Transactional Cost, Surplus inventory and Smart Measurement will be included in the discussion. No matter where your company is at with its inventory management program, you will want to attend this session. Your company will want to understand and implement these powerful inventory management best practices. Don't miss this high impact opportunity to take your company's inventory management process to a new level. Big picture – better profits, better service, better company! This session is non system specific; no matter what system you are utilizing, you do not want to miss this opportunity.

Grant Howard is a distribution industry expert and authority on “Best Practices” inventory management, operational excellence and smart technology utilization. He is well known for his ability to take real world problems and issues and turn them into opportunities; applying real world solutions that work and drive results. Grant is the conceptual designer of the Advanced Inventory Management (AIM) features and techniques in the SX.e, FACTS and A+ ERP systems.