Profit from Balancing Your Inventory: Reaching and Moving the Service Level–Inventory Curve

Effectively managing inventory levels to meet customer demand is a balancing act for organizations. It requires balancing inventory against service level targets, working capital goals, expediting costs, supply chain constraints, and other business priorities as they strive to optimize stock levels across their networks. Organizations can profit from a proactive program to improve inventory management, first by reaching the service level-inventory investment curve, then by moving it.