Inventory Control Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Inventory Control Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Inventory Control related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Inventory Control specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Inventory Control Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 996 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Inventory Control improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:


1. Do you know who decides key inventory related policy as striking the right balance between customer service and cost effective product inventory levels?
   
   

2. What list contains the authorized quantities of support equipment items required by an activity to perform its assigned maintenance level functions?
   
   

3. When material is transferred to another location, what person is responsible for ensuring that the material is properly stowed in the new location?
   
   

4. What activity is the single point of contact for organizational and intermediate maintenance activities requiring direct supply support?
   
   

5. What person has overall responsibility for the storage, security, and inventory control of material stowed in supply department spaces?
   
   

6. Does your plan incorporate communication security measures to ensure that unauthorized parties cannot intercept sensitive information?
   
   

7. Why is it important to follow the same procedures in numbering catalog products as you do with your regular stocked products?
   
   

8. What aisles allow movement of the material handling equipment or supplies through the length of a general purpose warehouse?
   
   

9. Does your organization have specialized needs as budgeting for and reporting on outcome measurements or inventory control?
   
   

10. When computing a fixed allowance, the total average turn around time is limited to a maximum of how many constrained days?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Inventory Control book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Inventory Control self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Inventory Control Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Inventory Control areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Inventory Control Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Inventory Control projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Inventory Control Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Inventory Control project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Stakeholder Management Plan: Have Inventory Control project management standards and procedures been identified / established and documented?
   
   

2. Variance Analysis: Does the contractors system identify work accomplishment against the schedule plan?
   
   

3. Change Management Plan: Has the relevant business unit been notified of installation and support requirements?
   
   

4. Quality Management Plan: How do your action plans support the strategic objectives?
   
   

5. Human Resource Management Plan: Is Inventory Control project status reviewed with the steering and executive teams at appropriate intervals?
   
   

6. Team Member Performance Assessment: To what degree are the relative importance and priority of the goals clear to all team members?
   
   

7. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Are the interests in line with the program objectives?
   
   

8. Lessons Learned: What were the most significant issues on this Inventory Control project?
   
   

9. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Identify and isolate causes of favorable and unfavorable cost and schedule variances?
   
   

10. Closing Process Group: What were things that you did very well and want to do the same again on the next Inventory Control project?


 
Step-by-step and complete Inventory Control Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Inventory Control project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Inventory Control project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Inventory Control project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Inventory Control project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Inventory Control project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Inventory Control project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Inventory Control project with this in-depth Inventory Control Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Inventory Control projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Inventory Control and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Inventory Control investments work better.

This Inventory Control All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.