Keyword: «distribution and purchasing for availability»

Effective inventory management is one of the most important areas of management of a modern organization, allowing to solve the problem of effective management of working assets, eliminate the shortage of funds and increase the investment attractiveness of the business as a whole. By introducing modern technologies for inventory management based on modern achievements of economic science and information technologies, an organization in a short time (3-5 cycles of replenishment of stocks) can obtain the following effects: ensuring availability – close to 100%, sales growth – 30%, turnover growth – up to 100 %, profit growth – about 50%. Such assessments are received by consulting companies involved in the implementation of changes in inventory management systems in the corporate sector of the economy. In their experience, changes in the supply chain of inventory management can have an economic effect in the amount of the company's annual marginal profit. The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of the economic efficiency of various methods of inventory management, carried out on the basis of a simulation model of inventory management developed by «NET STOK PRO» LLC. Based on the results of the study, it is concluded that there is an advantage of using the adapted methodology «Distribution and procurement to ensure availability in supply chains» according to the theory of constraints (TOC) over other approaches.