Achieving Effective Inventory Management, 5th ed.

Based on our most recent research and the most up-to-date best practices, the Achieving Effective Inventory Management guides have provided a complete approach for managing a large and often troublesome asset...inventory. In our striving to remain current, the economic challenges facing distributors have resulted in EIM, Inc. producing a 5th edition. The new fifth edition involved a complete review of the entire 4th edition book. It includes updated discussions regarding the impact and adjustments the current economic challenges have produced in all areas of inventory management. This book will help you achieve the goal of effective inventory management: to meet or exceed customers' expectations of product availability with the amount of each item that will maximize your organization's net profits or minimize its total inventory investment. Ten pages longer than the 4th edition, just as easy to read, and now available at the same low price! Order Achieving Effective Inventory Management 5th Edition today and follow the path that leads to maximizing the productivity and profitability of your investment in stock inventory. ________________________________________

Jon Schreibfeder is president of Effective Inventory Management, Inc., a firm dedicated to helping manufacturers, distributors, and large retailers get the most out of their investment in stock inventory. Jon literally grew up in a family-owned distribution business and started studying inventory management philosophies and best practices in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, Jon went on to become a distribution industry trouble shooter for two major software companies. His task was to help the computer companies' customers use their available computer tools as well as best-practice policies and procedures to better manage their largest asset: inventory. Jon founded his own independent consulting firm, Effective Inventory Management, Inc. (EIM) in April, 1996. Over the past 30 years, Jon has helped more than two thousand firms improve their productivity and profitability through better inventory management. EIM's customers range in size from a 2-million-dollar distributor to Fortune 50 companies. Customers are located throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Rim. Jon is the author of numerous articles and a series of books on effective inventory management, including the recently published Achieving Effective Inventory Management Fifth Edition and the National Association of Wholesale Distributors' Guess Right Best Practices in Demand Forecasting for Distributors. A featured speaker at seminars and conventions throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Rim, Jon has been awarded the title Subject Matter Expert in inventory management by the American Productivity and Quality Center. He is a frequent lecturer and is on the advisory board of the Industrial Distribution program at Purdue University.