Excessive inventory ties up working capital, while insufficient stock jeopardizes delivery capability and service levels. The challenge, therefore, is not a blanket reduction, but ensuring the right inventory is available at the right time and in the right place. We create transparency regarding inventory and its drivers, and optimize the underlying planning, replenishment, and supply chain processes. Data, analytics, and AI help identify potential faster and enable more informed decision-making. Automation and change management are the keys to sustainable implementation.
High inventory levels yet still missing parts: Inventory problems rarely originate in the warehouse alone; they usually arise from the interplay between demand, planning, supply chain and internal management.
”In order to manage the balancing act between improved service levels and optimized inventory in the after-sales market, we have brought together the requirements of the markets and the capabilities of our supply chain in a tailor-made solution. The professional implementation was achieved through the standardization of processes, tools and governance structures as well as intensive cooperation with sales channels.”
Group Vice President Supply Chain
MANN+HUMMEL
”EMPORIAS has developed an inventory management dashboard in close coordination with our specialists. With this dashboard and the established standard processes, we have full transparency over the entire inventory at the plant at any time and can derive actions to optimize the stock situation. We really value the collaboration with EMPORIAS due to the project successes achieved and look forward to relying on EMPORIAS' expertise and practical approach in future projects as well.”
Managing Director
Novoferm Vertriebs GmbH
”In the project with EMPORIAS, we enabled targeted inventory management. By directly implementing it in our SAP add-on GIB Controlling (formerly DCC), we jointly ensure the realization of potential, which, in addition to reducing inventory while increasing material availability, also results in a reduction of planning effort. We really value working with EMPORIAS because of the expertise they bring, their execution strength, and how well they integrate into our organization.”
Supply Chain & Distribution Manager Hirschmann Automation and Control GmbH, Belden Germany GmbH
”In order to manage the balancing act between improved service levels and optimized inventory in the after-sales market, we have brought together the requirements of the markets and the capabilities of our supply chain in a tailor-made solution. The professional implementation was achieved through the standardization of processes, tools and governance structures as well as intensive cooperation with sales channels.”
”EMPORIAS has developed an inventory management dashboard in close coordination with our specialists. With this dashboard and the established standard processes, we have full transparency over the entire inventory at the plant at any time and can derive actions to optimize the stock situation. We really value the collaboration with EMPORIAS due to the project successes achieved and look forward to relying on EMPORIAS' expertise and practical approach in future projects as well.”
”In the project with EMPORIAS, we enabled targeted inventory management. By directly implementing it in our SAP add-on GIB Controlling (formerly DCC), we jointly ensure the realization of potential, which, in addition to reducing inventory while increasing material availability, also results in a reduction of planning effort. We really value working with EMPORIAS because of the expertise they bring, their execution strength, and how well they integrate into our organization.”
We bundle this experience into a clear approach: four levers that we weight differently depending on the initial situation and combine with short-term effective measures as well as structural improvements in planning, supply chain, and organization.
1. Transparency & Stabilization
Stabilize inventory & create transparency
2. System optimization
Optimize planning & system parameters
3. Supply chain optimization
Optimize the supply chain end-to-end
4. Anchoring & Automation
Sustainably anchor inventory management, utilize automation and AI
Establishing clear responsibilities, governance, standards, and continuous monitoring ensures that improvements have a lasting impact and provides transparency regarding where we deviate.
The common denominator of our services is a clear vision: We make the "right" inventory measurable – and create transparency regarding where it fits and where it deviates.
We distinguish between Healthy Inventory, which falls within the defined target corridor, and two forms of deviation: Overstock ties up unnecessary working capital, while Understock increases the risk of shortages and jeopardizes service levels and delivery capability.
Based on reliable target stock levels and defined ranges, we make it clear what portion of your inventory is actually healthy, where capital can be released – and where targeted adjustments are needed to manage inventory faster, more efficiently, and more effectively.
Inventory management is becoming increasingly intelligent and automated – from process mining and specialized planning solutions to AI agents. Today, numerous technologies are available to manage inventory more transparently, quickly, and efficiently.
We know the various solutions and understand which technology creates the greatest value for specific use cases – and how to effectively introduce them into existing processes, systems, and organizations. In doing so, we consider not only technical suitability but also maturity, integration effort, and economic benefit.
This is how we combine process expertise with the right technologies to create inventory management that is increasingly proactive and automated.
GIB: Optimization and inventory management through the modular GIB Suite – integrated into SAP and supported by a proven consulting approach.
Process mining to analyze process variants, loops, and deviations from the target process, as well as idle, waiting, and processing times.
E2E supply chain planning and optimization for network-wide inventory optimization using E2E platforms that ideally link demand planning, supply planning, S&OP, and scenario planning directly with execution.
And many other tools that are precisely tailored to your company.
Incorporating best practices, insights from over 25 years of process and organizational consulting, and 250 successfully completed projects
Engaging the client organization within a collaborative project culture to ensure sustainable implementation
Long-term support for our clients through to successful implementation, with over 70% of our business coming from existing clients – personal, hands-on, and as equals
Close collaboration with our cooperation partners to deliver best-in-class solutions
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