The Hours VMI Gives Back to Your Team

• Walking the storage area and tallying every item.
• Writing the order, getting approval, and sending it.
• Calling about late deliveries and backorders.
• Checking deliveries against orders and fixing mistakes.
• Matching invoices to orders, one by one.

Every purchase order costs $14 to more than $54 to process, according to APQC procurement benchmarks. Ten packaging orders a month at $35 each is $4,200 a year in paperwork alone.

1. Your supplier counts. On a weekly, every-two-weeks, or monthly schedule.
2. Your supplier orders. Restocks to the levels you set, with no order from you.
3. Your supplier watches usage. Flags jumps before they turn into a stockout.
4. You place fewer orders. Scheduled restocks replace a stack of small, rushed orders.

1. Hours per week your team spends counting, ordering, chasing, and receiving packaging.
2. Multiply by your loaded hourly rate and by 52.
3. Add your purchase orders per year x your cost per order.

Four hours a week at $30 an hour is $6,240 a year. Add 120 orders at $35 each and the total passes $10,000.

Our VMI customers tell us the program saves them a hire. Send us your packaging list and order history, and we’ll estimate the hours you get back.

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