How much can a company save by reducing inventory waste? CUSTOMER STORY Boise • Reduced inventory by more than 20% • Improved service level by three full points • Now manage their business to service levels instead of inventory turns Results • Inventory Optimization Solution • Consumer Durable Goods Industry Challenges Dale Groetsema, Supply Chain Leader for Boise, deals nearly every day with the difficult problem of how to manage inventory in a long supply chain, owning the inventory all the way from raw material (the tree) to finished product in the warehouse. Manufacturing takes place at the mills located near the source of raw material, while customers are located mostly in distant metropolitan areas. In between, most of the product is shipped via rail, since shipping bul

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