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Vendor-Managed Inventory
Put your inventory management in our hands
From stock-level maintenance and forecasting to shipping and warehousing, the time and money spent on inventory management can be significant. Smith’s VMI services alleviate the burdens of inventory ownership, boost your operational efficiency, and help keep you focused on your core business.
How We Help
Reduce total cost of inventory ownership
Secure product availability across regions
Decrease the effects of market volatility
Hub inventory for use at multiple sites
Schedule just-in-time delivery
Ensure stringent inspection and testing
Gain visibility into your global inventory
What We Do
Smith’s VMI services let you turn over the responsibilities of inventory management to us.
Ownership
Smith offers multiple models for inventory ownership and can manage both customer-owned and Smith-owned inventory. We will customize a VMI workflow for your solution that is unique to your needs.
Warehousing
Smith’s VMI programs utilize our warehousing space, so you can eliminate the warehouse-personnel costs once associated with managing your inventory. Smith’s shipping and logistics hubs occupy ESD-, climate-, and temperature-controlled warehouse space so that your inventory will be stored properly and remain uncompromised.
Centralization
Smith can act as a central hubbing location, managing requests from multiple sites. Our online tools provide a centralized portal for visibility of your inventory, so you always know the status of your shipments and what is on-hand.
Replenishment
We carefully monitor and manage replenishments of inventories to your specifications. Global visibility into program activity and inventory levels allows us to balance surpluses and high demand across geographies.
Forecasting
Smith can act as your forecasting partner, supported by our proprietary software for supply chain management and inventory planning. Customer, performance, and market reviews provide visibility into the movement, cost, value, and projected usage of your inventory.
Rely on Smith as a central hubbing location to manage requests from all of your sites. We can plan, monitor, maintain, and replenish your inventory levels to your specifications.
Learn how Smith’s vendor managed inventory program helped our client control the availability and flow of critical commodity parts accurately.
The client removed uncertainty regarding inventory demand, pricing, availability, and status. Smith efficiently managed inventory through warehouse consolidation and geographic staging.
Certifications and Affiliations
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CTPAT®
Smith meets U.S. Customs and Border Protection security standards and helps customers avoid delays that slow product delivery.
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CCCI-102 Level 1 and Level 2
Our quality inspectors’ CCCI-102 certification expands upon the anti-counterfeit standards contained in Smith’s CCAP-101 certification and helps to safeguard the global supply chain from inauthentic components.
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From cost, time, and space constraints to administrative burdens related to material sourcing, procurement, and warehousing, Smith's VMI solutions help to address a wide variety of inventory-management challenges.
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