How To: Go Lean in Distribution
by Christina Lee on October 9th, 2008
As some sort of business nutritionist, Dr. Perry Daneshgari has prescribed to over 300 companies a diet of lean operations – cutting out wasteful activities that drive up internal costs. More than ten years after he founded his company, MCA Inc. , distributors are finally catching on and demanding to know how they can also cut that “fat.” In a phone interview, he shared wih goWholesale a few of his lessons: Managing inventory is becoming more crucial than having it. Distributors recognize that bottom lines are disappearing, because they’re carrying more inventory. To reduce cost of inventory, you need to... Read more »