About the Author
and the Book
Mr. Charles Bodenstab spent more than 30 years in various executive
positions at major corporations before he acquired the failing
Battery and Tire Warehouse in St.Paul, Minnesota. In just one
year, by implementing strong inventory control and cash
management programs, he turned the company profitable, where it
remained until he sold it very favorably ten years later. The
concepts and technology he developed during his early corporate
days, and their practical refinement for the distributor, are the
basis for this book.
The first
section of the book deals with a variety of Inventory Management
tools that are widely misused and rules that are routinely
violated by many distributors. Their correction can offer some
very quick, high-payoff opportunities - it did at Battery and
Tire Warehouse.
The second section of the book develops, step by step, a series
of concepts and techniques that, when brought together in a
computer software system, becomes one of the most powerful,
easy-to-use inventory replenishment systems in the country today.
The system stresses simplicity in use, though not particularly in
its internal methodology.
With Mr.
Bodenstab's system, the user can build a replenishment order on a
particular vendor and have a purchase order in the vendor's hands
within 15 minutes. Yet this order will have tracked trends,
seasonality, and aberrant demand movements; comprehended
palletizing requirements, minimum order amounts, and price
breaks; and allowed for easy, rapid human intervention to
introduce overrides in areas known only to the user.
Companies
which have used software packages incorporating these concepts
have routinely demonstrated a quantum improvement in both
inventory turns and order fill rates, with reduced order
preparation time as a final bonus. Through his system, Mr.
Bodenstab offers the distributor a win-win-win opportunity!
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