Supply Chain & Inventory Assessment
The problem
Many organizations struggle with excess inventory, stockouts, inconsistent replenishment, and poor inventory visibility. These challenges are rarely caused by a single factor—they are often the result of disconnected processes, outdated inventory policies, inconsistent planning practices, and limited operational visibility.
Common Challenges
Why planning teams struggle to stay ahead
Modern supply chains generate more data than ever, yet critical decisions are still made with limited visibility, disconnected systems, and static plans. These are the challenges we help organizations overcome.
1. Decisions are made with incomplete visibility
Planning teams often lack a shared view of demand, inventory, capacity, and supply constraints, making it difficult to understand the impact of business decisions before they are made.
2. Plans break when conditions change
Supplier delays, demand fluctuations, production constraints, and transportation disruptions can quickly make yesterday’s plan obsolete.
3. Inventory is either too high or too low
Without clear inventory policies and synchronized planning, companies struggle to balance service levels with working capital, leading to excess stock or costly shortages.
4. Teams spend more time reacting than planning
Planners are constantly responding to exceptions instead of evaluating opportunities, improving performance, and making proactive decisions.
Assessment Areas
A comprehensive view of your supply chain performance
Harumi helps you evaluate the processes, policies, and operational constraints that influence inventory performance, service levels, and working capital to identify the highest-impact improvement opportunities.
1. Inventory Performance
Measure the health of your inventory. Assess inventory policies, replenishment strategies, stock levels, and SKU performance to identify excess inventory, shortages, and opportunities to improve service while reducing working capital.
2. Planning & Operations
Evaluate how planning drives execution. Review forecasting, demand planning, production planning, and S&OP processes to identify planning gaps, bottlenecks, and operational constraints that affect execution.
3. Supply Chain Resilience
Identify operational risks before they become disruptions. Analyze supplier performance, lead-time variability, capacity constraints, and logistics dependencies to improve resilience and reduce operational risk.
4. Business Impact
Prioritize improvements with measurable value. Quantify how recommended improvements affect inventory investment, service levels, operational efficiency, costs, and overall business performance.
Who benefits
Who benefits most from Inventory & Supply Chain Diagnostics?
Designed for organizations seeking greater visibility into inventory performance and supply chain maturity. Ideal for companies that:
Experience excess inventory and stockouts
Operate multiple warehouses or distribution centers
Want to improve inventory policies
Need better inventory visibility
Are modernizing supply chain operations
Seek to reduce working capital while maintaining service levels
Assessment Journey
Turn operational insights into measurable improvements
From understanding your current performance to building a prioritized improvement roadmap, Harumi helps transform operational data into actionable decisions.
1. Assess
Build a complete operational baseline. Analyze inventory performance, planning processes, service levels, and operational KPIs to understand how your supply chain performs today.
2. Diagnose
Identify root causes—not just symptoms. Uncover the policies, process gaps, and operational constraints driving excess inventory, shortages, poor service levels, or inefficient planning.
3. Prioritize
Focus on the improvements that matter most. Rank opportunities based on business impact, implementation effort, and strategic importance to create a clear improvement roadmap.
4. Improve
Design practical operational changes. Define inventory policies, planning improvements, and operational initiatives that increase resilience, reduce working capital, and improve customer service.
5. Measure
Track progress and sustain results. Monitor KPIs, validate improvements, and continuously measure performance against the original assessment to ensure lasting operational gains.
