Dock to Shop

Reduce Storeroom Inventory and Save Costs

Dock-to-Shop (DTS) reduces storeroom inventory and saves costs by accepting materials at the dock and sending them straight on to the shop floor. It’s a just-in-time process that allows your business to maintain less storeroom inventory and save big on storage costs.

An important facet of DTS is Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI): material not owned by the manufacturer until it is about to be consumed in the production process. This enables efficient manufacturing and operations, decreases costs and shortens the production interval while helping suppliers by giving them visibility into the manufacturer’s forecasts and daily use of their components.

A study by Datalliance shows results for key business metrics after two years of using VMI:

Here sales, inventory turns and out-of-stocks all improve in the first year of using VMI. More significantly, the analysis shows that these improvements are not merely a one-time benefit as business results continue to improve in all three of these categories in the second year of VMI.

With ITDistributors’ Dock-to-Shop coupled with Vendor-Managed Inventory services, you have more time to focus on sales, engineering, new product development and strategy. We’ll handle the tactical challenges of managing your inventory and help you minimize costs, increase supply chain velocity, and improve overall customer satisfaction.