Are you Addicted to Inventory?
Volume 4 | Number 4 | April 2021
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Inventory?
I know what you are thinking; I once was addicted to inventory tooâ¦and it nearly cost me a great job!
Try to imagine me sitting at one of the old gray manufacturing desks surrounded by four walls of inventory. At the time, my manager walked up to me and said: "Something got to go, Koch. You, me, or this inventory, and it's not going to be me."Â
This simple exchange transformed my life.
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Many businesses are addicted to inventory, and it's become their drug of choice! Rather than solving the root cause of problems, the answer is, "let's increase safety stocks." Leaders don't understand their addiction and how a massive dependency on inventory creates a monster that needs to be tamed. What do you see when walking through the doors of your operations? Do you see stacks of your organization's addiction?