{"id":12521,"date":"2024-06-24T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T13:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartcorp.com\/inventory-optimization\/why-inventory-planning-should-not-rely-exclusively-on-simple-rules-of-thumb-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T14:02:31","slug":"de-kosten-van-spreadsheetplanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartcorp.com\/nl\/blog\/the-cost-of-spreadsheet-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"De kosten van spreadsheetplanning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;Row&#8221; module_class=&#8221;blog_glob&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; saved_specialty_column_type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text content_last_edited=&#8221;off|desktop&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;CONTENT&#8221; module_class=&#8221;post-main_text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.24.3&#8243; header_3_text_color=&#8221;#0c71c3&#8243; header_3_font_size=&#8221;19px&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; z_index_tablet=&#8221;500&#8243; text_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; text_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; text_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; link_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; link_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; link_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; ul_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; ul_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; ul_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; ol_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; ol_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; ol_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; quote_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; quote_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; quote_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_2_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_2_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_2_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_3_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_3_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_3_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_4_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_4_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_4_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_5_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_5_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_5_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_6_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_6_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_6_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; box_shadow_horizontal_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; box_shadow_vertical_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; box_shadow_blur_tablet=&#8221;40px&#8221; box_shadow_spread_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Companies that depend on spreadsheets for demand planning, forecasting, and inventory management are often constrained by the spreadsheet\u2019s inherent limitations. This post examines the drawbacks of traditional inventory management approaches caused by spreadsheets and their associated costs, contrasting these with the significant benefits gained from embracing state-of-the-art planning technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Spreadsheets, while flexible for their infinite customizability, are fundamentally manual in nature requiring significant data management, human input, and oversight. This increases the risk of errors, from simple data entry mistakes to complex formula errors, that cause cascading effects that adversely impact forecasts.\u00a0 Additionally, despite advances in collaborative features that enable multiple users to interact with a common sheet, spreadsheet-based processes are often siloed. The holder of the spreadsheet holds the data.\u00a0 When this happens, many sources of data truth begin to emerge.\u00a0 Without the trust of an agreed-upon, pristine, and automatically updated source of data, organizations don\u2019t have the necessary foundation from which predictive modeling, forecasting, and analytics can be built.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, advanced planning systems like Smart IP&amp;O are designed to overcome these limitations. Such systems are built to automatically ingest data via API or files from ERP and EAM systems, transform that data using built in ETL tools, and can process large volumes of data efficiently.\u00a0 This enables businesses to manage complex inventory and forecasting tasks with greater accuracy and less manual effort because the data collection, aggregation, and transformation is already done. Transitioning to advanced planning systems is key for optimizing resources for several reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Spreadsheets also have a scaling problem. The bigger the business grows, the greater the number of spreadsheets, workbooks, and formulas becomes.\u00a0 The result is a tightly wound and rigid set of interdependencies that become unwieldy and inefficient.\u00a0 Users will struggle to handle the increased load and complexity with slow processing times and an inability to manage large datasets and face challenges collaborating across teams and departments.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, advanced planning systems for inventory optimization, demand planning, and inventory management are scalable, designed to grow with the business and adapt to its changing needs. This scalability ensures that companies can continue to manage their inventory and forecasting effectively, regardless of the size or complexity of their operations. By transitioning to systems like Smart IP&amp;O, companies can not only improve the accuracy of their inventory management and forecasting but also gain a competitive edge in the market by being more responsive to changes in demand and more efficient in their operations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits of Jumping in:<\/strong> An electric utility company struggled to maintain service parts availability without overstocking for over 250,000-part numbers across a diverse network of power generation and distribution facilities. It replaced their twenty-year-old legacy planning process that made heavy use of spreadsheets with Smart IP&amp;O and a real-time integration to their EAM system. \u00a0Before Smart, they were only able to modify Min\/Max and Safety Stock levels infrequently.\u00a0 When they did, it was nearly always because a problem occurred that triggered the review.\u00a0 The methods used to change the stocking parameters relied heavily on gut feel and averages of the historical usage.\u00a0\u00a0 The Utility leveraged Smart\u2019s what-if scenarios to create digital twins of alternate stocking policies and simulated how each scenario would perform across key performance indicators such as inventory value, service levels, fill rates, and shortage costs.\u00a0 The software pinpointed targeted Min\/Max increases and decreases that were deployed to their EAM system, driving optimal replenishments of their spare parts.\u00a0 The result:\u00a0 A significant inventory reduction of $9 million that freed up cash and valuable warehouse space while sustaining 99%+ target service levels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Managing Forecast Accuracy: <\/strong>Forecast error is an inevitable part of inventory management, but most businesses don\u2019t track it.\u00a0 As Peter Drucker said, \u201cYou can\u2019t improve what you don\u2019t measure.\u201d\u00a0 A global high-tech manufacturing company utilizing a spreadsheet-based forecast process had to manually create its baseline forecasts and forecast accuracy reporting.\u00a0 Given the planners\u2019 workload and siloed processes, they just didn\u2019t update their reports very often, and when they did, the results had to be manually distributed.\u00a0 The business didn\u2019t have a way of knowing just how accurate a given forecast was and couldn\u2019t cite their actual errors by group of part with any confidence.\u00a0 They also didn\u2019t know whether their forecasts were outperforming a control method.\u00a0 After Smart IP&amp;O went live, the Demand Planning module automated this for them. Smart Demand Planner now automatically reforecasts their demand each planning cycle utilizing ML methods and saves accuracy reports for every part x location.\u00a0 Any overrides that are applied to the forecasts can now be auto-compared to the baseline to measure forecast value add \u2013 i.e., whether the additional effort to make those changes improved the accuracy.\u00a0 Now that the ability to automate the baseline statistical forecasting and produce accuracy reports is in place, this business has solid footing from which to improve their forecast process and resulting forecast accuracy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get it Right and Keep it Right:\u00a0 <\/strong>Another customer in the aftermarket parts business has used Smart\u2019s forecasting solutions since 2005 \u2013 nearly 20 years!\u00a0 They were faced with challenges forecasting intermittently demanded parts sold to support their auto aftermarket business. By replacing their spreadsheet-based approach and manual uploads to SAP with statistical forecasts of demand and safety stock from SmartForecasts, they were able to significantly reduce backorders and lost sales, with fill rates improving from 93% to 96% within just three months. \u00a0The key to their success was leveraging Smart\u2019s patented method for forecasting intermittent demand \u2013 The \u201cSmart-Willemain\u201d bootstrap method generated accurate estimates of the cumulative demand over the lead time that helped ensure better visibility of the possible demands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connecting Forecasts to the Inventory Plan:<\/strong> Advanced planning systems support forecast-based inventory management, which is a proactive approach that relies on demand forecasts and simulations to predict possible outcomes and their associated probabilities.\u00a0 This data is used to determine optimal inventory levels.\u00a0 Scenario-based or probabilistic forecasting contrasts with the more reactive nature of spreadsheet-based methods. A longtime customer in the fabric business, previously dealt with overstocks and stockouts due to intermittent demand for thousands of SKUs. They had no way of knowing what their stock-out risks were and so couldn\u2019t proactively modify policies to mitigate risk other than making very rough-cut assumptions that tended to overstock grossly.\u00a0 They adopted Smart Software&#8217;s demand and inventory planning software to generate simulations of demand that identified optimal Minimum On-Hand values and order quantities, maintaining product availability for immediate shipping, highlighting the advantages of a forecast-based inventory management approach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Better Collaboration: <\/strong>\u00a0Sharing forecasts with key suppliers helps to ensure supply.\u00a0 Kratos Space, part of Kratos Defense &amp; Security Solutions, Inc., leveraged Smart forecasts to provide their Contract Manufacturers with better insights on future demand.\u00a0 They used the forecasts to make commitments on future buys that enabled the CM to reduce material costs and lead times for engineered-to-order systems. 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We were discussing the benefits of being able to automatically optimize both reorder points and order quantities. The VP Finance was concerned that given their large supplier required minimum order quantities, they would not be able to benefit.\u00a0 He said his suppliers held all the power, forcing him to accept massive minimum order quantities and tying his hands. While he felt bad about this, he saw a silver lining: He didn\u2019t have to do any planning. He would accept a large inventory investment, but his customer service levels would the exceptional.\u00a0 Perhaps the large inventory investment was assumed to be the cost of doing business.<\/p><p>I pushed back and pointed out that he was not as powerless as he felt. He still had control of the other half of the procurement process: while he couldn\u2019t control how much to order, he could control when to order by adjusting the reorder point. In other words, there is always room for careful quantitative analysis in inventory management, even when you have one hand tied behind your back.<\/p><p><strong>An Example<\/strong><\/p><p>To put some numbers behind my argument, I created a scenario then analyzed it using our methodology to show how consequential it can be to use inventory optimization software even in constrained situations. In this scenario, item demand averages 2.2 units per day but varies significantly by day of week. Let\u2019s say the imaginary supplier insists on a minimum order quantity of 500 units (way out of proportion to demand) and fills replenishment orders in either three days or ten days in equal proportions (quite inconsistent). To spread the blame around, let\u2019s also suppose that the imaginary supplier\u2019s imaginary customer uses a foolish rule that the reorder point should be 10% of the minimum order quantity. (Why this rule? Too many companies use simple\/simplistic rules of thumb in lieu of proper analysis.)<\/p><p>So, we have a base case in which the order quantity is 500 units, and the reorder point is 50 units. In this case, the fill rate is 100%, but the average number of units on hand is a whopping 330. If the customer would simply lower the reorder point from 50 to 15, the fill rate would still be 99.5%, but the average stock on hand would drop by 11% to 295 units. Using the one hand not tied behind his back, the inventory manager could cut his inventory investment by more than 10%, which would be a noticeable win.<\/p><p>Incidentally, if the minimum order quantity were abolished, the customer would be free to arrive at a new and much better solution. Setting the order quantity to 45 and the reorder point to 25 would achieve a 99% fill rate at the cost of a daily on-hand level of only 35 units: nearly a 90% reduction in inventory investment: a major improvement over the status quo.<\/p><p><strong>Postscript<\/strong><\/p><p>These calculations are possible using our software, which can make visible the otherwise unknown relationships between inventory system design choices (e.g., order quantity and reorder point) and key performance indicators (e.g., average units on hand and fill rate).\u00a0 Armed with this ability to conduct these calculations, alternative arrangements with the supplier may now be considered. For example, what if, in exchange for paying a higher price per unit, the supplier agreed to a lower MOQ. 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