Inventory Management Fundamentals for Supply Chain
Learn inventory planning, safety stock, EOQ, and ABC analysis. Enroll in SCMDOJO's Inventory Management course with certification.
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Skills you'll gain
Skills you'll build in this course
- Explain the role of inventory in the supply chain and working capital.
- Apply demand forecasting basics to plan stock levels.
- Calculate safety stock, economic order quantity (EOQ), and reorder points.
- Use ABC classification to prioritize inventory control efforts.
- Balance service level, carrying cost, and stockout risk.
- Identify signals for excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory.
- Build a simple, data-driven inventory policy you can implement immediately.
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Why learn with Paul Denneman?
Paul Denneman
I am committed to create, connect and transform sustainable supply chains, to strive towards the completeness of the circular form. I focus on supporting and implementing these necessary changes, taking care of the dependencies between processes, systems and people. Moreover, I have a good knowledge of different ERP systems. The sectors in which I operate are mostly complex supply chain operations in high-tech, spare parts, pharmaceutical and medical devices.
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What learners say about this course
“Fantastic course, it has everything to develop your knowledge regarding inventory management. Extremely recommended for inventory skill improvement.”
“Thanks to Paul and SCMDOJO for delivering such an eye-opener course. Before I started this course, I thought that this topic of inventory management, ordering, etc. is quite complicated. Actually, the instructor made it very simple and easy to digest.”
“Indeed the course was very informative. The trainer has cleared the concepts related to inventory management as well as its optimizations in a very impressive way. I will strongly recommend this course to all SCM professionals.”
“Very well explained course for our new person in supply chain.”
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