Inventory
Management
Pipeline maintains the optimal amount of inventory for each of its customers by using advanced software and best-in-class inventory practices.
Best-in-Class Inventory Classification, Planning and Labor Management
Pipeline Packaging's supply chain specialists use the following approach when managing customer inventories:

Classification of Inventory
- Determines the optimal amount of safety stock
- Accounts for supplier lead time variability
- Reduction of carrying costs

Inventory Planning
- Optimal product levels purchased
- Increase inventory turn times
- Less assets tied up
- Decrease holding and operating costs
- Improve forecasts through feedback metrics
- Usage analysis

Labor Management
- Job sequencing for packaging projects:
- Bundling shipments
- Product modification
- Product assembly
- Make to order
- Make to stock
- Optimal amounts of labor to receive and store packages
- Pallet maximization

Pipeline's ability to manage customer inventory levels through our warehouses provides several key benefits:
- Consolidates packaging needs across multiple business units
- Better leverages manufacturing base for specific customer requirements
- Provides visibility into inventory history and trends via status reports