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Page 1 - Tap Into Today's Best Inventory Practices

Page one brings you today's best ideas for tackling your biggest challenges. From improving accuracy to reducing human error to eliminating bottlenecks, you discover proven ways to impact the bottom line.

Page one also brings you exclusive research. You get an inside look at what your peers think on a wide range of important inventory issues in What Your Peers Are Up To. We talk to thousands of inventory mangers every year to find out what they're working on and what they're planning. Then we pass this on to you to help guide and support your decision making.

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Avoid Costly Legal Battles
Exclusive - Page two is home to our exclusive Sharpen Your Judgment section. It describes a recent legal conflict involving an inventory manager, lets you decide the outcome, and then shows you how the courts ruled. It helps keep you and your company out of trouble.








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Page 3 - Apply Proven Success Stories To Your Operation

Exclusive - With the Real Problems, Real Solutions section, you benefit from real-life success stories from inventory managers at companies of all sizes facing the same challenges you face. By seeing how others successfully address inventory challenges, you discover proven solutions that you can adapt to your own unique situation.




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Page 4 - Put Improvements In Place Today
Sometimes a big improvement can come in the form of a small idea, and with Quick Ideas, you'll learn quick-hitting ideas used by other practitioners and organizations, as well as the best insights from the best books on increasing accuracy and boosting worker performance.

Exclusive - Page four also helps you "Think outside the boxes," by bringing you The Big Picture. Find out what's on the horizon for inventory management and how your procedures will be affected, and use it to get more buy-in from other departments by showing them the critical role inventory management plays in your company.

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Page 5 - Boost Your Accuracy

We know that increasing accuracy is of critical importance to every inventory manager. That's why we've dedicated a full page to it in every issue. Our Increasing Your Accuracy feature delivers step-by-step plans to get you and your staff closer to that elusive 100% mark.

Page Five is also home to Shipping and Receiving, an exclusive feature designed to not only help increase the efficiency of your staff - and other departments' - every time a truck rolls up or an order ships.


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Page 6 - Make Everyone More Effective

Page six 's Working with People section supports your general management issues by giving you ways you can get the most out of your staff. See what's working and what's not, learn new twists on old-standbys to effectively deal with absenteeism, motivation and communicating more effectively to get buy-in from other departments.






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Page 7 - Benefit From the Successes of Others

Page 7 brings you a real-life management story in the What Worked, What Didn't feature. See in great detail how one inventory manager addressed common and uncommon challenges from start to finish. See which solutions worked and which didn't and see the payoffs of his/her efforts. This is a great tool for saving you time, increasing your efficiency and getting things done.





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Page 8 - Stay Informed and Make Smart Decisions

You can't make the right decisions without the most current information. With News You Can Act On, you get the latest news, studies and legal developments that affect your business.

 
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