The objective of Stock Management is to minimize costs with a fixed service grade and supply reliability.
In addition to trade and production supply, MRO supply is also maintained, both centrally and decentrally. Reduction of costs is achieved by centralization, consolidation and the improvement of data quality.

The following steps are taken to decentralize:

• Establishment of overlap.
• Providing analyses related to ideal size of orders, minimum supply levels, overdue stock.
• Execution of complex logistics operations.

Points of focus

Inconvenient aspects of this are:

• Data comes from various systems with different structures.
• Product descriptions are not consistent.
• Various languages, terminologies, and writing styles make data complex.
• Lack of relevant logistics data, such as measurement, weight and storage conditions.

What solutions?

Working from a project plan, a number of phases are identified:

• Data Matching, to discover duplications in and overlap of various supplies.
• Analysis, improvement and enrichment of data to improve the direction of the logistics process.
• Migration of data, if required.
• Unification of descriptions that pertain to employees in the warehouse.

The company-wide implementation of unified descriptions, the cleansed data, also ensures a greater efficiency in other parts of the company operations.

In cooperation with partners, Calago also offers total services for (among other things):

• Moving of supplies.
• Sale of surplus articles.
• Determining new ideal order sizes.

Available Calago solutions

• Data Matching
• Data Enrichment
• Data Cleansing

Result

• Reduction of inventory.
• Lower inventory costs due to efficiency.
• Fewer capital demands.
• More efficient use of space.
• Fewer errors in order picking.
• Fewer problems with clearing.