Unify planning, purchasing and inventory for the plant.

For a plant, planning, purchasing and inventory are often three systems — or three spreadsheets — speaking three different languages. The webinar shows the cost of that disconnect: each department has to buffer against its own blind spot, leading to both dead stock and material shortages at the same time.

The speaker presents what changes when all three read one real-time picture of demand and one real-time inventory level: the reorder point is no longer a static figure updated each quarter but reacts to real consumption; production planning sees material shortfalls immediately; and purchasing orders the right quantity at the right time instead of buying out of habit.

An important part is how to cut dead stock without causing shortages. The answer is not to “reduce inventory” mechanically, but to distinguish fast-moving goods from ones that sit still, then let real consumption data decide the stock level for each group.

The webinar closes with why a single data layer is the precondition: forecasts and reorder points are only trustworthy when they rest on the same truth that sales, production and the warehouse all see — not on three copies that drift apart.

What we covered

• Disconnected planning, purchasing and inventory force each side to buffer against its own blind spot.
• One real-time demand and one real-time inventory level for all three functions.
• Reorder points react to real consumption, not a static quarterly figure.
• Cut dead stock by distinguishing fast-moving goods from ones that sit still.
• Reduce inventory without shortages — let consumption data decide the stock level.
• Forecasts are only trustworthy when based on one shared data layer, not three copies.