Problems of inventory management always receive unwanted consequences: lack of goods or their surpluses. Excessive stock level reduces the competitiveness of companies, because it enables: depreciation of stock or physical/moral obsolescence of goods, end of validity of unsold goods and their writing off losses.
Although difficult to quantify, the losses determined by the lack of goods are even more severe. Many companies do not count such losses, but as the practice shows, this type of loss (caused by the lack of stock or delays in deliveries) determines from 10 to 20 percent lower sales.
Eliminating the losses caused by trade surpluses or shortages, MERLANA always seeks the following:
- To monitor and analyze trends of demand in each point of sales constantly.
- To create the most attractive range of products for the customers of each of our partners.
- To save the investments of the partners and ours and to ensure the optimal stock of goods, avoiding inventory "pits".
- To increase sales, without increasing operating costs, only eliminating stock shortages of goods.
- To ensure the best sales results of our goods (in comparison with competitors’ products, sold within our partners).
- Reduce operating costs of partners (less investment on inventory, means less expenditures, thus more free money remained).
- To ensure the least possible loss for our partners in case of moral obsolescence of goods.