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month . “ That is my favourite statistic ,” Bauer adds . “ When I first came in there was a very strange dynamic . I got a call from our President saying inventory turns are below two , and then had about 10 calls from sales leads saying they didn ’ t have the product to fill customer orders . This didn ’ t make any sense , and goes to the heart of the supply chain planning .”
In Bauer ’ s words , it was time to “ stem the bleeding ”. Investing in the supply chain planning software solution Logility has proven to really help stabilize Nutrabolt ’ s supply chain , despite Bauer ’ s trepidation at recommending such a significant investment so early into his tenure .
“ I think the willingness to change was what I was most worried about before going into this ,” he continues . “ I pitched this only three months into being employed and was scared to death at the prospect – I was walking in as the new guy advocating a very expensive piece of software .
“ But Doss was so supportive and we got on the phone to the MidOcean folks and they supported the idea straight away . My team on the demand planning and supply planning side were also super excited , especially having lived the pain . The willingness to change was emphatic , it has been a huge learning curve .”
68 May 2017