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Phillip Slater provides a range of materials management and spare parts inventory management consulting services, each designed to give you the level of support you need for your situation. This flexible approach makes it easier for you to achieve your Inventory Process Optimization™ goals.

A key difference is Phillip's focus on implementing improvements, not just identifying them. Phillip is not a software vendor who 'consults' on software implementation, he is an inventory and management expert with a wide range of inventory management and optimization experience and the ability to provide genuine insight into many inventory issues.

"Phillip Slater is Australia’s leading authority on optimizing the inventory process."

Procurement Professional News

Quoting the Australian Production and Inventory Control Society

For you this means that Phillip can:

• Undertake onsite reviews to provide insight into your inventory and materials management practices as they are today and give you guidance on what they could be in the future.

• Conduct optimization programs to ensure that you get the right part in the right place at the right time, for the right reason.

• Assist and guide your team in developing the new policies, procedures, measures and reporting necessary to achieve your goals.

• Help you and your team work through the many implementation change management challenges.

• Train your team to conduct inventory and materials management reviews.

Specifically Phillip can assist you with:

• Reviewing your materials management and inventory issues

• Optimizing your inventory

• Reducing your inventory levels

• Correcting inventory 'mix problems'

• Setting up a new storeroom

• Developing new stocking, materials management and inventory policies

• Developing new stocking, materials management and inventory processes

• Implementing new stocking, materials management and inventory processes

• Prioritizing your inventory investment

• Developing the skills of your team

• Increasing stock turns

In addition Phillip utilizes a range of tools to assist in diagnostics and implementation.

The key benefits to you from this approach are:

• Flexibility of delivery to suit your team and style.

• Access to an experienced practitioner who understands your environment.

• Continuity of delivery - no switching of consultants midstream.

• Access to genuine expertise not consultants learning on the job.

• A focus on your results not 'our tasks'.

Review our materials management and inventory optimization case studies to see the results that have been achieved.

Find out how Phillip can help you achieve your goals through materials management and inventory optimization consulting services.

Materials Management X-Ray

The Optimization Trap

Phillip Slater's latest book on improving operational performance.

Smart Inventory Solutions

The inventory book that's got everybody talking!

A New Strategy For Continuous Improvement

Learn the 10 Steps to operational excellence.

FREE e-Book Download

'The Five Myths of Inventory Reduction'

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